Wow, the next time it snows here, I know what I’m building.
Tip o’ the magic tip hat to Damaris.
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February 23rd, 2009 at 9:35 am
You might have to wait until next year. It seems like a mild winter here in N Colorado.
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:55 am
That’s a lot of snow, and a lot more shoveling.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:05 am
I think I see some ice on the external fuel tank.
Calvin and Hobbes would be impressed!
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:08 am
Last time I saw so many ice in a Shuttle was back in january of 1986… and as far as I remember, wasnt a good thing!!
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:21 am
How cool would it have been if they stained it red, white, and blue and made it a giant “rocket pop”?
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:24 am
Might as well build an Areas-V.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:30 am
Pretty cool.
The house behind it appears to have some nasty heat loss/insulation issues though (icicles of that abundance coming off the roof isn’t a good thing).
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:39 am
I’m going to insist that Zombie Feynman take a look at the O-rings.
February 23rd, 2009 at 10:45 am
This is very awesome.
I recently built something similarly awesome, which you can see by clicking my name…
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:07 am
@Greg in Austin
No. It would have to be a Challenger recreation, with dismembered snow-nauts and mangled pieces of the boosters and shuttle. In poor taste, yeah, but it’s what Calvin would do.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:10 am
So much for my psychic abilities. Before clicking, I guessed “snow Dalek” (which, in retrospect, makes no sense with the title of this entry).
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:13 am
Looks a bit … huh … phallic.
Nice idea indeed.
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:35 am
I dunno, I’d probably go old school. A snow Redstone perhaps?
BTW, great work Sparky! Built in support is good. I don’t think that I would have ever thought of doing it that way.
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Cool! Except that they made all the engines cryogenic…
I thought Spaceman Spiff was into saucers and death rays: “Intrepid interplanetary ice-machines inhabits imaginations of infantile intelligences.”
Perhaps if the cargo bay was loaded with a Hobbes telescope.
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:55 pm
@Todd,
Actually, Calvin’s version would be Space Man Spiff’s ship, crash landed, with a giant killer monster snow goon in the background. I’ve always wanted to make some of those, but since I live in Texas, snow is a bit of a rarity.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:01 pm
I was once in Quebec City for their winter carnival and saw some snow sculptures there. That was a very snowy city.
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Hmmm… The whole thing, with the tanks on its side, might take “interesting” (not to say embarrassing) shapes as it melts. Don’t let your neighbors say you have a complex…
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Very cool.
September 19th, 2011 at 9:31 pm
Worst TARDIS ever…