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                 (Kiri goes over the
                      details of an engineering experiment to create a
                      vehicle using balsa and rubber bands to transport
                      an egg a hundred feet. She gets Skip hooked into
                      doing the project also due to his extensive
                      engineering background.)
 
 
 Russ:
                                                  engineering questions
                                                  sweetheart.
 
 Kiri: okay.
 
 Russ: eggs…..
 
 Kiri: uh-huh.
 
 Russ: and the ability
                                                  to move them a hundred
                                                  feet.
 
 Kiri: uh-huh.
 
 Russ: okay now, are
                                                  there any outside
                                                  rules I should know
                                                  about before I go
                                                  about taking time and
                                                  money to design
                                                  something that’s going
                                                  to carry an egg a
                                                  hundred feet?
 
 Kiri: oh you’re going
                                                  to spend money?
 
 Russ: I’m going to
                                                  spend money, I have to
                                                  spend money to make
                                                  this thing work. So
                                                  before I spend time
                                                  and money to do
                                                  this…..it’s an
                                                  engineering question
                                                  she put to me and
                                                  Mark, we have to
                                                  design something that
                                                  will take an egg a
                                                  hundred feet and I
                                                  have to know any rules
                                                  before doing all this
                                                  work….
 
 Kiri: yes, the only
                                                  power source allowed….
 
 Russ: is a rubber
                                                  band, three rubber
                                                  bands.
 
 Kiri: yeah, maximum.
 
 Russ: three rubber
                                                  bands maximum.
 
 Kiri: hey you want to
                                                  participate Skip?
 
 Russ: I can do it,
                                                  I’ve got the plans in
                                                  my head, I just have
                                                  to know if there’s any
                                                  rules that will negate
                                                  the plans I’ve got in
                                                  my head.
 
 Kiri: no, don't
                                                  forget, it’s got to be
                                                  all........
 
 Russ: balsa.
 
 Kiri: balsa.
 
 Russ: well now that’s
                                                  a question I wanted to
                                                  ask you here….
 
 Kiri: okay, balsa,
                                                  glue.
 
 Russ: balsa and glue.
 
 Kiri: yes and of
                                                  course you need nails
                                                  and stuff to pin the
                                                  wheels on if you’re
                                                  going to pin the
                                                  wheels on there or if
                                                  you're going to need
                                                  nails to hold the
                                                  rubber bands.
 
 Russ: now…..
 
 Kiri: you want to
                                                  participate, you want
                                                  to do this? Come on,
                                                  you’ve got until the
                                                  end of September.
                                                  Skip, you’re in on it.
 
 Laura: he can do this.
 
 Russ: you’ll have a
                                                  great time with this
                                                  dude.
 
 Kiri: Skip, you’re in
                                                  on it, you want to
                                                  participate?
 
 Russ: nails, balsa,
                                                  glue and rubber bands.
 
 Skip: three rubber
                                                  bands, 30 yards.
 
 Kiri: thank you.
 
 Skip: use balsa and
                                                  glue, rubber bands and
                                                  wheels.
 
 Russ: nails.
 
 Kiri: nails.
 
 Russ: and wheels.
 
 Kiri: uh-huh, well,
                                                  wheels made out of
                                                  balsa.
 
 Russ: wheels made out
                                                  of balsa right.
 
 Skip: yeah I’ll take
                                                  up the challenge, I
                                                  will take up that
                                                  challenge.
 
 Kiri: there is no
                                                  prize apart from the
                                                  prize of being the
                                                  best.
 
 Skip: I will take up
                                                  that challenge.
 
 Kiri: okay and I’m the
                                                  official judge.
 
 Skip: and you want to
                                                  transport an egg
                                                  300…..
 
 Laura: 100....
 
 Russ: 100 feet.
 
 Kiri: well if you want
                                                  to do 300 feet,
                                                  certainly, let’s up
                                                  the ante a little bit.
 
 Skip: 30 yards, 30
                                                  yards, a hundred feet.
 
 Kiri: a hundred feet.
 
 Skip: 30 yards.
 
 Russ: uh-huh.
 
 Velvet: a hundred
                                                  yards.
 
 Skip: yeah, I’ll take
                                                  up that challenge.
 
 Kiri: okay.
 
 Skip: yes I will.
 
 Kiri: end of September
                                                  okay? And we’ll have a
                                                  special channeling
                                                  session for that.
 
 Russ: this should be a
                                                  good....how is Mark be
                                                  able to participate
                                                  and have you
                                                  channeling?
 
 Skip: now okay,
                                                  question, question,
                                                  question......
 
 Kiri: uh-huh?
 
 Skip: raw egg or
                                                  hard-boiled?
 
 Kiri: raw.
 
 Skip: okay.
 
 Kiri: raw egg.
 
 Skip: okay.
 
 Kiri: and at the end
                                                  we will break the eggs
                                                  and make an omelet.
 
 Russ: if they don’t
                                                  break first.
 
 Kiri: that’s right,
                                                  that will be the
                                                  reward that the person
                                                  that wins gets the
                                                  omelet.
 
 Laura: who’s cooking?
 
 Kiri: the losers.
 
 Russ: and there’s no
                                                  time right? No certain
                                                  time limit?
 
 Kiri: no time, no
                                                  time.
 
 Russ: okay, so as long
                                                  as it gets there.
 
 Kiri: uh-huh.
 
 Russ: okay. Does it
                                                  have to be a straight
                                                  course or can it veer
                                                  off here and there as
                                                  long as it makes……
 
 Kiri: as long as it
                                                  makes it to the
                                                  hundred yards, hundred
                                                  yard marker.
 
 Russ: how are you
                                                  going to mark that
                                                  out?
 
 Skip: hundred feet
                                                  marker.
 
 Kiri: a hundred feet
                                                  marker yeah, well
                                                  you've get a tape
                                                  measure that goes a
                                                  hundred feet.
 
 Shane: I don’t
 
 Skip: yeah I do.
 
 Russ: you do?
 
 Skip: yeah.
 
 Russ: okay.
 
 Skip: I’ve got a
                                                  hundred foot tape.
 
 Russ: we can use it.
 
 Skip: now....
 
 Kiri: yeah sure.
 
 Skip: by you veering,
                                                  you’re going to travel
                                                  more than a hundred
                                                  feet partner.
 
 Russ: yeah well I’m
                                                  taking that into
                                                  account. In my head I
                                                  got this planned out,
                                                  I just don't know
                                                  what's going to happen
                                                  until I put this into
                                                  action.
 
 Skip: let's
                                                  see.....yeah, I'll
                                                  take up that
                                                  challenge.
 
 Kiri: okay, right.
 
 Russ: boy this is
                                                  going to be a real
                                                  challenge now.
 
 Kiri: uh-huh, I think
                                                  Mark’s going to have a
                                                  workout as well.
 
 
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