hydrogen

I know it sounds like a playful element, but it can be dangerous. Mostly because it's flammable. So, if you plan on hanging out with hydrogen, I would avoid the backyard bonfire. Or at least invite another hydrogen and call up oxygen to come over, even if he is a dork. It would be a safer situation.

The Discovery space shuttle had to scrub its mission again because they found out that hydrogen was leaking. This is bad. Have you ever seen a space shuttle launch? There is a lot of fire happening. With a lot of hydrogen floating around, things might go boom boom.

And there have been a few hydrogen-gas-leak problems in the past month. I don't know about you, but that is pretty scary.

Let's say you had a monster under your bed. This monster likes to tickle you, making it hard to fall asleep. The good thing is that you have panels that keep the monster under the bed. The bad thing is that three of them broke and the monster is getting out to tickle you. So, you don't sleep for a few days and you fix it. Then you find out that there is ANOTHER broken panel. The monster can tickle you again. Would you feel comfortable going back to bed again? I wouldn't.

Oh, and one more thing. Imagine that if you fall asleep, the monster will explode.

That's what it is like having a hydrogen leak on a space shuttle. Except with fewer tickles.

Let's hope everything gets fixed and we get that water purification system onto the space station.

I'm off to check the panels under my bed.

Enjoy!

-DJ