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[Story] [Science]

 

Back to the Past: The Planet of Oobleck

 

Written by: Ian Kaawaloa

 

Scientist. Scientist are usually the people who think harder and invent more

inventions than anyone. Am I right. What you will find in this story is scientist

whothink harder than their brain can expand to invent something extra

ordinary to help them-selves get off a planet of strange things.

Oobleck is a thick liquidy substance that makes up the home planet of 19

year old Roland, 32 year old Shawn, 20 year old Liz, and 21 year old Ian.

Their planet iscalled the Planet of Oobleck. Their planet is just like ours but

the ocean is made up of oobleck. If you were to go to the Planet of Oobleck

you would be amazed. You wouldn't believe your eyes. It's like nothing you

have ever seen before. But that's only to us people who don't live on the

Planet of Oobleck. But for those who do, they are

sick of it. They could care less about what their ocean is made up of, I mean

they lived there for their whole life.

The Planet of Oobleck is very small and they only have 1 mountain there. It is

called Mt. Miraculous. It's not like that mountain just miraculously came there,

they have volcanoes there too. I told you it was just like earth.

Well on Mt. Miraculous they just got this new telescope. Well scientist Ian was just fooling

around with this telescope and he miraculously found or discovered a planet.

He was so amazed. He went for days talking about this knew planet until

scientist Roland made a brilliant suggestion, " How about we do what no man

or woman has done and go where no man or woman has been and take a

little visit to this undiscovered planet!" They thought

the planet was undiscovered because there wasn't anything on it. But they put

Rolands suggestion into some consideration.Shawn, the head scientist says

that they will fly there. Everyone agrees. Well everyone has to agree because

he's the boss. Everyone puts in their ideas,

*Blows fire

*Rocket boosters

*Oobleck proof

*Water proof

*It flys

*Shaped like an egg

*Big propellar on the bottom

*Made of wood

*Latex wrapped around bottom

Plans changed, Shawn said that the ship had to take off in the oobleck ocean

because the propellar cannot touch the ground. Everyone knew this would not

be an easy project and it wouldn't be done really fast but they knew they

would have fun and learn a lot of things making this fire blowing, propellar

spinning, rocket boosting, wooden floating, light blinking spaceship. They

went to work! When the crew was done they celebrated for hours then they

went to bed. They have never been so warn out in their lives. But they were

satisfied with what they built and they planned to leave in one week. This is

how the space ship came out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One week passed and every one was packed and anxious to leave. They

aboarded their ship and admired their hard work. Once everyone was seated Shawnand Liz hopped in the control seats. "Everyone

ready?" "Ready!" They

turned on thefire to make the oobleck into powder, they spun the propellar,

 

the ship started to lift from the oobleck and right at that moment they turned

 

on the rocket booster and Sssshhoomm!! They were gone. They were

 

moving so fast you couldn't follow them with your own eyes. Not one of the

 

passengers could talk because the ship was moving so fast. But the ship

 

slowed down. Ian looked out of the window and screamed, "AAHhh there's

 

the planet, the beautiful golden....." "warner, lets call the planet warner," said

 

Liz. "Good idea,"Said Shawn. But shawn said everyone should go to sleep

 

now because it will take about 8 hours until we land on warner so...go ahead.

 

Of course no-one could go to sleep so they played Monopoly for 8 hours. 8

 

hours past. Roland won the game. Everyone felt like they could go to sleep

 

now. But the day wasn't over. Once they seen planet warner it was like they

 

re-charged. It was like the became so hyper and energetic. Especially

 

because they was much closer to the planet. "Everyone please remain in your

 

seats and buckle up, and thank you for flying oobleck airlines. We will be

 

landing shortly," said Shawn. No one laughed. BooM! Everyone fell of their

 

seats. "What the..." said Roland. Shawn and Liz run out of the control room.

 

"Hey stays in your seats, and who's flying the plane if you two are out here,''

 

said Ian. Shawn remarks sarcastically, " if we're out here and a while ago we

 

said to stay in your seats because we were landing soon, well it is soon and

 

guess what?" "We landed!" screamed Roland. The first step Roland took.

 

KatOOnK!!!What happened to Roland?

 

 

To be continued!

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