I suppose you are wondering what it looks like to watch a rocket launch. Well, here's a picture form the place we went to watch the rocket take off:
The rocket is about 11 miles away. There are four tall towers around it with letal antennas on top. These taller antennas are designed to attract lightning. If a thunder storm comes through, they don't want lightning to hit the rocket because A) rockets, little buddies, cost a whoa whole lot of money and 2) rockets are full of stuff that can blow up.
The big building is where they put the rocket together. There are a bunch of other buildings. I have no idea what they are for. You can also see a telephone pole which is much, much closer and a sign in the water that tells boaters "Don't get any closer to the rocket than this" which actually means "Don't get any closer to the rocket than this or we will arrest you and throw you in the slammer". Official signs always have some sort of subtext like this, often unstated, which it would do you well to be aware of. You are six and might be able to talk your way out of a trip to the hoosegow, due to your tender years. But they would go a lot harder on an old Pirate like me who knows better.
This is where we stood to watch the shuttle take off, too. But a picture like this from that time would be useless because it was night.
So get the teacher to give you a run down on the concept of perspective. Have her explain why the telephone pole, which is actually much, much shorter than the rocket, appears to be a hundred times taller. Go ahead. Ask her.
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