Here's Why

Fire!

Fire!


Originally uploaded by iwoolf.

The pirates led the Winter Magic parade with a cannon that was muzzle-loaded with talcum powder for the smoke, and went bang from a balloon blown up with a plastic hand-pump. A sparkler provided the fuse.

About the author: Ian Woolf lives in Sydney, has a degree in Applied Science, worked as a solar astronomer, software engineer, systems programmer, webmaster, research assistant, Cisco CCNA tutor, Physics laboratory demonstrator, Computational Theory lecturer, and subject coordinator; while changing his career to freelance writing and broadcasting. Listen to Ian on the Diffusion radio science show on radio 2SER 107.3FM Monday at 6:30pm in Sydney or streaming audio on www.2ser.com, or listen to the Diffusion podcasts. You should follow me on twitter, here