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"The Day We Melted a Glacier" by Travis M.
"When will we leave? I can't wait to leave!", Molly said as she ran onto the jumbo-sized tugboat. We were going to go on the tugboat from the bottom of South America to the beginning of the ice cap of the South Pole, get the biggest glacier we could find, and tug it back out from the cap about 50 miles, get the energy from the satellite, and melt the whole glacier with our super-hot laser. Well, back to the story. I really took up a lot of time. The people had already picked up their glacier. "It's about time," Travis said as he was readying the super laser. The satellite was about to send the energy from space from its 2 square miles of solar panels to this one laser. The solar-panel satellite had been charging for 2 months, so it was really, really juiced up. It was storing all of that electricity in 1 square mile of batteries. It also had a long metal rod pointing toward earth, which was used to zap all of that electricity down to a large dish on the boat, through some two-foot thick wires and to the laser. Well, some of this had already happened. Everyone in the southern hemisphere could see the huge streak of electricity that seemed to be a lightning bolt going through the air. That was the electricity for the satellite. Everyone on the boat was waiting, horrified that all of this electric energy was coming straight towards them. It was moving at about...well, let's say 100,000 miles per second. That's pretty fast for one little boat to catch it all. Every last bit of it. Enough electricity to supply a 10,000 volts per second super laser for about then minutes. The laser was programmed to go left to right and down on every right and left at 100 miles per hour. that glacier was so big that even at that speed, it would take 10 minutes. When the laser started, everyone stepped back. I timed the laser. It took that laser exactly, exactly ten minutes to complete melting the whole glacier. After the laser was turned off, everyone yelled as loud as they could. Yelling so the world world could hear that they had made a world record! They has melted a whole glacier in 10 minutes.! That was the best day, of everyone on the boat's life! The End image from freefoto.com, photographer: Ian Britton |
