star trek

Teddies in space

Recently, the world’s first space flight carrying teddy bears was launched from Churchill College, in Cambridge, UK. Two teddy bears called MAT and KMS were sent on a space mission and thrust 100,000 ft into the stratosphere on a weather balloon. Both teddies were dressed in tailor-made space suits and launched more than 18 miles above the Earth in the four-hour expedition, reported The Daily Telegraph. The toys were tied to seats attached to a weather balloon made by Cambridge University’s Space Flight Science Club and survived temperatures of -35°C. Images of the bears in space were taken on a webcam attached to a laptop. Students from nearby Parkside and Coleridge community colleges helped scientists by making suits for the teddies to prevent them from freezing. After accomplishing the mission the bears parachuted back to the planet and made a soft landing near Ipswich, 50 miles from their launch pad.

treat time

Yummy Christmas

Christmas is around the corner and Italian sweet-makers have something special up their sleeve this time. Angelo Feduzzi, an artist, carved a 35-feet-high Big Ben clock tower from 17,600 lbs of chocolate. The structure was especially made for a Christmas food festival in Macerata Feltria in central Italy. The chocolate Big Ben, which took two weeks to build, has become a tourist attraction. Festival organisers believe that the tower is not likely to melt as daytime temperatures are no more than 3°C. They feel that it will stand for the rest of the week before it’s pieced and distributed among the public.