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I think I’ve found one of the best uses for YouTube – besides posting tofu photos and searching for noteworthy animation, documentary and news clips.
That’s right: The launching of a Stomp Rocket is, in a way, compelling video – at least for me.
I thought I’d post this quick footage, well, because my relatives and I had fun sending the rockets into the air while we were on vacation recently in Monterey County.
There really is no point to this exercise, except to say that it was fun to see how high a jump from a person, who lands on a pillow-like bag made from plastic, could launch the foam-tipped, lightweight rockets.
The model we used apparently can zoom up to 200 feet in the air.
My relatives and I range in age from preschool to adults. We launched the rockets and watched them soar into the air.
They glided left and right. Then, we chased after them as they returned to the ground.
It was good, old-fashioned fun: Energy, gravity, awe.
Just because you can do something (such as document something on video) doesn’t mean that you should do it (meaning posting it on a blog).
Except in this case since Stomp Rockets are pretty entertaining, it was hard to resist.
My relatives and I had, well, a blast.
I think there’s as much of a point of posting a Stomp Rocket – with some models soaring up to 400 feet in the air – on a blog as there is sharing footage with the world of spinning, lit massage balls.
When I told my older cousin, a teacher, that I had this Stomp Rocket footage and was going to post it on TofuWatch.com, she had a one-sentence answer: “Yes, you DO that.”
As we know, there are times when no point is the point.
I also post this on the same day as people in Dubai celebrated the world’s tallest building, which reportedly stands 2,717 feet.
So, if my relatives and I thought the Stomp Rocket launched high into the sky, think about the toy rocket in comparison to the world’s tallest building.
A Stomp Rocket would have to travel 13 to 14 times its normal range to reach the top of the planet’s tallest building.
