Anybody remember Cape Bananapeel?

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There's a thread going on just now in the General Physics forum about how a rocket works. Someone mentioned throwing bananas to propel yourself. That took me back to my childhood when I watched "Beany and Cecil" cartoons on TV, which featured a rocket-launching site named "Cape Bananapeel."

(Thank you, YouTube!)

Somebody at school actually talked me into squeezing a banana to see if it would "launch" like that. :blushing:
 
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  • Frame from an animated cartoon showing a cartoon robotic hand reaching out in front of a yellow rocket on a launch pad, with a radar dish and a lattice tower beside an orange building.
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  • Frame from a 1960s cartoon showing a yellow, egg-shaped rocket with a white pointed nose standing on a launch pad on a flat desert landscape with a launch tower and a distant structure.
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  • Animated cartoon scene: a white rocket stands on a launch pad shaped like an open banana peel, with towers and a distant antenna on a flat, pale blue landscape.
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Wow, Beany & Cecil, I'd forgotten them. Thanks jt!