Car Trek: The Search for Uranus

Our first ever inter-galactic space romp covering a whopping 3 trillion light years (or approx 4,300 of your earth kilometres) to the lesser known constellation of the Black Sea coast in Romania where you will find Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter and Venus. As yet however, nobody has penetrated Uranus. Therefore we would slowly go where no one had gone before.

Fortunately unlike real space, we didn't have to urinate into a spacesuit or die horribly of oxygen starvation when opening the car windows.

the wheels

As usual, banger rally rules applied so we were a bit limited on technology though the stuff we turned out was still better than anything ever seen in Blake's Seven.

After experimenting with various fuels including a particularly explosive mix made from Timotei and hamsters we settled for tried and tested Unleaded. Needless to say Ebay resellers of Neon lighting and Flux Capacitors had a bumper year...

So after blast off from Dover we headed due east in a wobbly motion with orbit only momentarily achieved when the road disappeared completely the Albanian Quadrant...

See the full extent of the Captain's Log here or watch the video here.

Hear what the stars are saying about it...

"If you find Uranus can you give me a heads up" Professor Brain Cox

"This may finally provide the quantum theory of gravity I've been looking for"               Stephen Dorking, (Master of the Universe)

"Beagley beagley beagely" Twiki