Success from Failure...

Ok so maybe the balloon launch last Friday was a complete failure on the weather-balloon-making-company's part.

I blame them.

But then again, we should have foreseen something like this happening- right?
NO, not right. Honestly science is about learning from your mistakes, that's basically what science is centered around--- just look at the scientific method! The scientific method itself is based on testing, failing, improving-as-needed, and then testing again.

Take my team's balloon car for example- it failed miserably, and yet we learned from our experience. We (a mere group of 8th graders), like all of the great scientists before us, have learned how to fail and learn form those failures.

That in itself is an accomplishment!

The fact that we have learned how to accept failure and learned how to learn from failure as mere 8th graders is a HUGE accomplishment. There are people out there in the world who have yet to learn how to accept defeat and move on from it. Imagine that! We have learned something in our 8th grade science class that many 40-year-olds have yet to discover (hence the term mid-life- crisis) in their lives: failure can benefit its victims more than success sometimes.

I believe that I have learned more from the failure on Friday than I would have learned had we succeeded perfectly in our attempt to send the CAN-tainer into space.

All thanks be to the failure of a weather-balloon-making-company somewhere out there. Next time we'll know better than to use your thin weather-balloons, and next time we'll be ready with a thicker/more durable one.