The SunBreak: Glimpses: "Space Needle Departs Earth!"

Thank you Mantis of Destiny for starting the day with a jolt of surreality. He comments:

Seattleites were astonished today when the Space Needle revealed that its motive power is actually hot air.

"It was a workaround issue for us in the 60's" commented Skip Reinswold, systems engineer from the original project. "We were extremely interested in then-current Project Orion discussions, but the side effects of explosive thermonuclear propulsion just seemed too extreme. More traditional means were really