Pray For Putin

While May came in with a night of rain that brought April's cherry blossoms down, and simultaneously pepped the May Blossom and other May flowers into bloom and brought thousands of Nasturtium seedlings bursting from the ground, Putin's right-hand man threatened to obliterate Great Britain and Ireland with one nuclear missile!

Cherry Blossoms down

May Blossom (and Chestnut) bursting into bloom

May Blossom close up

May flowers by the Royal Canal

Putin's threat to Great Britain and Ireland:

So now, I plan my own personal retaliation.

My inspiration comes from this little fellow (click the start button twice):

The mirror-like thing at this snowman's feet is a solar panel. When daylight hits the panel it sends electrons streaming across the panel, creating a voltage difference between the two sides. A metal wire connects the panel to a Resistor, a Capacitor and a coil of copper wire. The Resistor prevents the circuit from shorting. The Capacitor builds up the Voltage until it reaches a certain height and then discharges it in a pulse of electric current. The current, flowing through the copper Coil, turns the Coil momentarily into a magnet, which causes a pendulum to swing. The pendulum is attached to the snowman's nodding head and waving arms. (It is the same idea in an electric motor, except that the pendulum/ piston movement is there converted by gears into rotation of wheels).

This little solar panel empowers my snowman to keep waving and dancing all day long every day, and all year long every year, so long as there is a bit of sunlight available.

We could keep him going at night too, by adding a small re-chargeable battery. During the day, part of the electric power would be deflected to charging the battery, and at night the battery would keep him going.

I am going to re-design the snowman as an angel, with wings, and a little propeller, and program her to fly up through the sky. With her little solar panel and her re-charging battery, she will be able to keep flying day after day and night after night, without ever exhausting herself. She will be equipped with GPS. like your mobile phone, and this will enable her to reach any destination in the world by satellite navigation. So I will direct her to fly to Moscow and drop her message on the Kremlin.

Well, of course, the snowman's little solar panel will not be powerful enough to fly my Angel. I shall have to give her expansive wings, while keeping the weight down, and coat her entire outside with solar paint (as in the following YouTube Video).

 The paint will be arranged in stripes, each one an individual solar panel, to maximise the voltage generated, and, if I can get my hands on material for a structural battery (i.e., a battery comprising the actual structure of the object, rather than one attached to the object), that will be the ideal.

Will she not be blown off course by wind and storm? Of course, but it will not matter, since there is no particular date by which she should arrive in Moscow. She never had a chance of getting there by the 9th of May. Her program will direct her to fly to the GPS location of the Kremlin. Wherever she finds herself in between times, she will always head for that location until she gets there.

Her program comes in stages:

1. Head for the sky until you reach the Stratosphere, above where planes fly;
2. Head for the Kremlin by satellite navigation;
3. Swoop down to tree-top height;
4. Drop your message;
5. Come back to Ireland by GPS.

For fear that the Kremlin might retaliate by sending a missile to Dublin, I will direct the angel back to Tipperary. If the Kremlin strikes there, it is only a County Council that will be knocked out and not the country's Government.

And the message my Angel will drop:

Please Pray for the soul of Vladimir Putin, who, this year of 2022, has directed the Russian Army to Annihilate the Ukrainian People and Devastate their cities, and turned the Soldiers of Russia into Mass Murderers who will never again have a Peaceful Night's Sleep.

I will trust Mrs Google to translate this message into Russian.

Now, if my project is successful, there is no reason why everybody in Ireland, Great Britain, and, indeed, Europe, can't send their own Angel-Drone to the Kremlin to shower them with millions of prayers until Putin is converted. When your Angel returns home, you can re-charge her with more prayers and send he off on a repeat mission.