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Oct 26, 2020 4:00 AM
hmsaif
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(seauxpretea / tw)
FreeFall711
These were so great and then they used to spin the projecter and everyone would get dizzy!!! <3
Buttercreamdreammachine
Star Dome. The day I learned about claustrophobia, what a panic attack feels like, and how poorly adults deal with neuro-atypical grade 3s.
ArmathyAndTheUnfinishedBusiness2
I wish I had that experience
dannygrooves
S T A R L A B
Shumanic
Star Dome! Luxury!! If we wanted to see stars our teacher would cuff us upside the head.
brianterrel
We got this like... once every two years? It was the best day of school by far.
ItsReallyNotThatDifficult
Ok. I’m old. Who had planetaria or even carts? Some old lady simply handed us a limp ball and made us play in the rain. I’m pissed!
crimsomnia
That's one massive dutch oven
Spuduck
We were told it was a zero gravity thing..most kids were disappointed
SpecialAgentCharlesCarmichael
Holy shit. We DID have this one year and it was a BIG deal. Totally forgot.
thecarwash
My mother use to run one of these. I remember we would go and help her set them up. They would collapse down to a duffle bag and a suit case
beardedwolfedude
I remember these things. We had a nature teacher who did this in elementary school. Also learned how to create compost.
mycatToastwasafatasshole
Bro we just had a ugly AF parachute were we'd sit in a circle and throw it over our heads.
wellembalmed
Our Star Lab was part of a weekend kids day camp sort of thing. Parents left us alone, went to do taxes or whatever adults do without kids.
ImgursLibertarian
Back then? Drink, sleep, watch HBO's OZ, do taxes, have sex. In order of descending likelihood.
usersayswhat
Cocaine
tr26
Sex, mostly
angelfixer
I wish that were true
that300ZXguy
Our high school had a full-on planaterium. Pink Floyd nights were cool, great place to make out, too
squirreltactics
Our art teach made something similar out of taped up trash bags.
UltraLincoln
We just had a parachute and those little wheeley carts that destroyed fingers
IDontWannaBeACowboy
I got to see it once, I think it was a nonprofit that brought it in
Pokegeologist
Same. 1998, when you could still tell kids about space and dinosaurs w/o parents getting loud.
JayEnfield
Ditto
Rattlesnake2002
Never experienced this. What am I looking at?
The701
Portable, inflatable planetarium.
Scarpachi
This was a memory made, will never forget the greatness that was. Sorry to hear not all schools got to experience it back in the day.
MeowMachine12
Same. This was a BLAST when I was a kid and it's sad how many don't even know it existed
usersayswhat
Vote to raise property taxes in your area, I'm being serious
LazerBeamButtHole
What is this?
NotRightNeverWrong
It inflates and they have a projector inside. Basically a mobile planetarium.
ShadeMeadowsArt
The heck is that?
RadBadger2019
I never had one in school, but my grandma was involved with the astronomy department of a local college and I got to go in theirs once.
jesse2020wayne91831415
We had something like this but it was a vagina.. for sex ed. No joke
diev
This is a travelling planetarium. It can come to schools with large enough interior spaces and show off all sorts of stars/planets/lasers
diev
I never saw one until earlier this year when I was volunteering at a school that had gotten a lot of grants.
Lastcentura
Yeah nah nothing like this in Australia
Letaa
My school had one... possibly due to our science building being burnt down and rebuilt we got a huge science budget
Lastcentura
Do you live in a big city ?
Letaa
Didn't live in one at the time
Lastcentura
:/ i went to 5 different primary schools not one did this
w00tberrypie
Nope. We had a "parachute" that we would run through. That and the little wooden carts that would obliterate fingers.
iamthisguy247
It’s funny, my wife says she had the square wooden carts, but we had these “turtle” scooters: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4JjxZ3FU44c
Vaziera
Ours were square too lol
Verldemert
This was the way.
weaponhowlet
Oh man those carts and we also threw fucking bean bags at each other like on the Simpsons BOMBARDMENT
Askarus
My knuckles hurt in the winter and I blame 4th grade rolly cart day
ImNotAnOrange
we had some old wooden ones and some new plastic ones, because they didnt order enough replacements so they had to keep some old ones
ClearCoatedNutz
Scooter hockey. Got 3rd graders running round press cutting off fingers
grumpycatreincarnated
Oh man just got a vivid flashback of those wheels always covered in dust and smashing fingers.
hipifreq
Don't forget the red balls that go PING!
IanWhCandySmasher
That’s the most expensive red ball in the hospital
Rkfinecake
They made the same noise after bouncing off a torso in dodgeball lol
johnwohl
no the sound is VOIT!!
Flobmmando
I can smell that ball.
davebeastly
Is this in America because we definitely didn't do any of that in the UK.
joca852
I had all these things in my region of Canada.
Vaziera
Yes American children's shared traumas. Lmao.
lordofthedice
Yep. Grade school Physical Education. Very little education, lots of physical. Pure mayhem.
davebeastly
It's surprising how many top athletes come from a country where PE is spent riding scooters through a parachute rather than playing sports.
SCP1504
We had a big multicolored parachute... I assumed that was the standard.
MikeMcAwesome91
Apparently I lived below the standard
NinjaPoopy
Yeah and we'd have to all throw it up, run in and sit on the edge to keep the air trapped in.
iamdanman
I never had a parachute day
MissIWasntItching
And then there's me. I'm either from an area too poor, or I'm too old to know this.
cassylovescats
I loved when we put our legs under and played the game where people pull you in by your legs and people run and try to save you
mrhorseman
I do remember the chute
thepatioheater
The one day my school had this I was off ill!
rowm
Or those wheel things, not sure of their name. The blue platform you sit on long yellow handles for movement.
Nedalton38
Yarp
Robgoblin88
Congratulations, you went to a poorer school. As did we all.
LetTheWorldBurnSinceNoOneFFFingCares
I lived in a middle class area. We never had the parachute.
sgnight13
I had that too
EvanStageTech
Yeah like wtf is the constellation bouncy house shit
wakar1ma5en
Best day ever
illtrytocomeupwithsomethingwittylater
Horus175
This thing was different. It was an inflatable miniature planetarium.
madbydesign
Yep.
JerzeeTomato
I think that was the 80s equivalent of this... if you got money...
Noob3rts
Yeah, same.
Icanalreadytelliwillbepopular
That I remember
NayaTaylor
I got to choose what we did in gym one day and I chose the parachute over dodgeball... middle school was a weird time for me after...
TheKingOfTheJews
Here in Liverpool, England we had a bench with a few rusty nails in it. School foot(soccer)ball team was pretty decent though.
AmbroseGudmaker
A bench? Further north we'd have loved a bench. We just had the nails. But it was a bench to us.
rayeofsunshine
Rusty nails? Further north our nails rusted right through. We had cold air.
KaiArgentium
Air? Pfft. Further north the air just fucked off, we had a vaccum
MH9009
We had dodgeballs of varying sizes but no parachute
Seanspeed
I still cherish that rubber hollow pop of a gym ball slamming into somebody during dodgeball.
Trowserbear
The gold standard lol
Verldemert
woogigooie
Caught a glimpse of this before hitting right. Laughed to myself and came back just to listen to it. Thanks for having the sound one
ShowMeThemCatsFella
The instructor moved to save the lad. But was too late. The colorful void had already swallowed him
Verldemert
You’re welcome, friend!
SvarvSven
You were lucky! We used to live in the bottom of a lake...
UrinalCarrier
We had an outdoor terrain where places were still bitumen, and we had one volleyball
iamthisguy247
Yup and we’d toss bean bags on it then bounce them until they fell through the hole.
Newman63
Damn ours must have been a reject chute. We didn't have a hole. And couldn't bounce bean bags on it
DazzH89
We did exactly this! And I forgot about it until just now. Are you in England?
iamthisguy247
No Canada, sounds pretty universal.
elucca
Finland here. Also had the multicolored parachute.
SquirrelyDaniel
Ya I wasn't raised in richy richville so I have nooo idea what this is.
EvilDeadTed
This is an inflatable planetarium. They project stuff onto the inside walls and ceiling.
CaptainHyperbole
I went to the poorest school in my district for 3 years, even we had the parachute, I mean it was old af but we had one
MrTerror
These are called children
Choopsha
No joke hour and a half bus ride to a school with elementary, middle-school and high-school in one building...we still had the parachute
CaptainHyperbole
Wow where in the USA was that? K-12 all day n one building!?! That seems like a bad idea
Choopsha
Small Mountain Town = middle of nowhere
Goblor
coloured parachute and the sound of getting hit by those rubber balls in dodge ball