McDonald’s Deposits $40 billion for Their New Location on the Moon
Grace Wood, Sports Editor
December 3, 2018
Filed under Features, Showcase, The Raider Flatline (North's Satirical News)
McDonald’s, the beloved American fast food restaurant chain, has a total of 36,899 restaurants in 120 different countries, and the company is not done yet expanding their locations. In their new project, they are planning to build a McDonald’s on the moon. As if we have not destroyed our own planet e...
An Infinite Cacophony of Light
Tinaye Gibbons, Staff Writer
April 15, 2016
Filed under Literature, Showcase
Stars are not meant to be heard. Endlessly floating, Surrounded by dust and emptiness With oblivion awaiting them. Stars speak their own language. Elegantly phrasing, Beckoned by thoughts and avidness With billions listening in. Stars see pinpricks of flashes. Swiftly decaying, Observed by regard a...
Celestial
Megan Hoffman, Staff Writer
November 2, 2015
Filed under Literature, Showcase
She dances through the galaxy, Cloaked in luminosity, Her dark hair mocking the swirling of stars, She wanders the moons, A shimmering star in the distance. The freckles along her cheekbones Mimic the sprinklingof planets Throughout the universe. She swims through the...
NASA Astronaut to Make History
Maddy James, Staff Writer
April 24, 2015
Filed under Friday Links, Showcase
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly departed in the morning of March 27th on a Russian rocket from Kazakhstan with the intent to set the world record for longest time spent on a space station at a single time – 342 days. He is accompanied by Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka, with Kornienko staying for one...
The Waving Test
Amanda Lewsader, Staff Writer
March 26, 2015
Filed under Literature, Showcase
“Don’t forget your lunch! It’s on table!” yelled my mom. Does she not know exactly how many tables there are in here? We practically live in a futuristic manufacturing factory that constructs high-tech everything and will grab, stab, or clean anything. Both my parents are engineers so they...
Catching the Comet
Bim Peacock, Photo Editor
December 4, 2014
Filed under Friday Links, Showcase
Space exploration hit a historical landmark Wednesday, November 12 when a man-made probe landed on a travelling comet, 310 million miles from Earth. The touchdown occurred at 4:03 a.m. GMT, when the Philae lander made gentle contact with the surface of the comet. The European Space Agency (ESA) l...
Blaise Rayburn, Literature Editor
January 10, 2019
In the age of WebMD and online quizzes, hypochondriacs are thriving. But the realm of digital self-diagnostic tools not only covers physical illness but has also expanded...
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