Our teacher work day mini-camp took a trip to the discovery science museum of virginia today and we learned many beautiful and wonderful things. But the most important thing that we did is that I found a little video kiosk in the middle of a hallway where I got to pit the beloved pokemon known as Pikachu against an AMC Gremlin in a race.
For those who don't know, Pikachu is the face of Pokemon, a wildly popular billion dollar franchise that features pokemon, or pocket monsters, that young children and adults of all ages capture and force to fight each other for large sums of money. Pikachu is an electric mouse pokemon that stores electricity in its cheeks which it then releases in a powerful shock at the request of its trainer who is hoping to defeat the opposing pokemon to receive a hefty cash prize.
Pokemon was conceived by Satoshi Tajiri who was a childhood bug collector and wanted children to experience the joys of catching bugs and forcing them to fight each other.
The AMC Gremlin was an automobile produced by the now defunct American Motors Corporation from 1970 to 1983. The AMC Gremlin boasted a whopping 128 horsepower and the best fuel economy of any American made car in 1970.
The American Motors Corporation was founded by George Walters Mason who once tied himself to the crows nest of a ship in a thunderstorm and was struck by lightning 27 times, apparently suffering no injuries other than his left eye turning completely white and allegedly being able to see the name of any person and how many minutes they had left to live.
Well, somewhat ironically, according to the museum, Pikachu travels at the speed of lightning which is approximately 270,000 mph and the AMC Gremlin travels at a speed of 80 mph and so Pikachu was the winner.
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