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post Dec 29 2007, 11:52 PM
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Thought some of you might find this kind of cool. JPL is doing a Rose Parade float.

For everyone who's not familiar with this event, the Rose Parade is a long-standing New Year's Day tradition here in Los Angeles, preceding the national college football (US-type) championship game, the Rose Bowl. One interesting characteristic of the floats is that they have to be made mostly of flowers and/or vegetable materials, and JPL made some pretty amazing things for theirs, which celebrates 50 years of UMSF...


http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-153


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post Dec 30 2007, 06:59 PM
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Without the rocket sitting atop its flame plume, my first
guess was that JPL was featuring an Io volcano on its
float. laugh.gif
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- nprev   JPL Rose Parade Float   Dec 29 2007, 11:52 PM
- - PhilCo126   And at the JPL store: http://www.bookstore.caltech...   Dec 30 2007, 10:20 AM
- - centsworth_II   Without the rocket sitting atop its flame plume, m...   Dec 30 2007, 06:59 PM

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