Gravity Well: Frog version

I will be away from the blog this week. I'll repost some selected posts from the past to keep the blog going. Here's the first.

A gravity well is a hole dug out in space for frogs to live in. But, nobody knows who put the frogs in there. The frogs have been suspicious of Something Beyond for a while, an Outside, an infinite expanse of water with tasty flies and warm rocks to sit on. Every self-respecting frog jumps atleast once a day to see Something Beyond. Unfortunately, even the most athletic ones that jump three feet high cannot get a glimpse out of the well.

Over generations, enterprising frogs have been trying to get out of the well using a Froget. A Froget is a two feet cylinder with gunpowder at one end and a brave frog wearing goggles at the other end. Most of the time the Froget has the right end pointed down but sometimes bad things have been known to happen. The goggles are never recovered. The Frogets used The Mighty Wind Law. The Mighty Wind Law says that if you fart hard enough you will move a bit - even in a vacuum. It did not take long for the frogs to realize that Froget was bag of dreams and sacrifices. Every frog made sacrifices, particularly on a launch day when they held their breath - sometimes far too long that that fat ones popped.

(This was originally written as an aside for an article that I never finished.Agnes Dettaï kindly points me to The Bromeliad Trilogy by pterry where something similar happens)

Gravity well: Frog version was posted on September 22, 2006. I've made updates to the original post.