A bunch of school children in Hampshire, England, launched a potato into space.
Just shows you how sophisticated modern children are. Next, they will want to become career politicians, which is a covert way of feeling a couple of notches above their fellow citizens without actually having to become astronauts.
In my day, we would simply take the potato and throw it through a neighbour's closed glass window. It required no preparation, it had an almost immediate effect and you could go on laughing about it for weeks on end, humour being surely the healthiest way of living life.
A final advantage of the old way of doings things was that, once the potato had landed, you didn't need a GPS to find it. The neighbour would take the trouble of coming personally to hand it over to your parents. After that, as an adult, you would be too afraid to go into politics, in case somebody found out about your shady past.
Just shows you how a small mischief in childhood can prevent a life of total sin.
