Video Of The Week — Pumpkin Carving Goes Hi-Tech When NASA Engineers Get Involved

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Photo Credit: NASA/JPL (via Flickr)

NASA scientists can build rockets, send men to the moon, and may soon even help establish a colony on Mars. But can they carve pumpkins? That was the challenge posed to the brilliant engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA six years ago during Halloween. The friendly competition has since become an annual tradition with teams trying to outdo each other with increasingly hi-tech carvings.

Photo Credit: NASA JPL (via Flickr)

This year’s entries included a Pac-Man pumpkin, a replica of Darth Vader’s meditation chamber, a carousel, a Ninja Starshade, and even a black hole pumpkin. While the creations are certainly impressive, what is even more so, is that the engineers-turned-artists had just an hour to complete their masterpieces!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Resources: theverge.com, telegraph.co.uk

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  • #DONALDDUCK#about 5 years
    NASA is awesome
    • GUYalmost 6 years
      It's amazing how the NASA engineers could create such magnificent masterpieces in only an hour. I really liked the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Asteroid pumpkins.
      • lol000
        lol000about 6 years
        Pretty cool
        • jordan about 6 years
          pretty
          • Raul and Gavinabout 6 years
            its your boi pumpkin seeds the first picture of the pumpkin was COOL!!!!!!
            • what upabout 6 years
              sup
              • Jawanabout 6 years
                Hey peeps happy Halloween its Christmas (jk)
                • Macie about 6 years
                  it is Halloween
                  • karmenabout 6 years
                    happy haloween
                    • Ava -_-about 6 years
                      Hey, these pumpkins are amazing never again I will see a pumpkin and think the same way-