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Chantal Chicken set a new world record in the engine's kitchen. She repeatedly rode a space elevator up and down, one thousand times in total. For setting the world record she got a sunflower.
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This one looks like a space elevator. The two top strokes are the heavens, the two bottom strokes are the earth and the part in between is the space elevator.
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Julian Giant Squid installed a space elevator in the engine's bathroom, and now he wants to find out how heavy the load can be. For his first trip he loads 1000 times 1 kilo, and to celebrate the grand opening, he brought a sunflower.
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Mnemonic symbol: a steel beam, since 工 looks like the cross section of a steel beam. In front of the engine ((e)ng1), Gitta Giraffe (gu) is doing some hard work: She's stacking a capacitor (二) on a dinosaur bone (丨) on a capacitor (二). She's not very successful, but then she gets the idea to use steel beams (工) as support.