By silicon.com staff on 8 February 2008 11:21
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This competition is now closed. The winning caption, from reader Audrey, was: "There again, we could just sign up with Sky, lads."
Photo credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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1. Karen Challinor
... and even though they were nearly finished the drinks can designers still hadn't noticed the decimal point was missing from the plans
2. Karen Challinor
the audition for land of the giants was proceeding well
3. Karen Challinor
in an attempt to minimise waste the humble tin of beans has bean redesigned so you don't need to buy so many
4. Karen Challinor
Jeux sans Frontiers circa 1950 had rather basic games
5. Mary Hullah
A Japanese team researches how to miniaturise dimmer switches
6. Audrey
There again, we could just sign up with Sky, lads
7. P Dragon
Contacting Gulliver via a Ouija board was not going to be easy
8. Rob Falconer
The “Thunderbirds” special effects team spring into action
9. anonymous
Man In tie on left - Yawn, this looks boring, can I go yet
10. anonymous
I hope you have had proper HSE training to use that step ladder
11. anonymous
Someone tell me why this giant table does not have 4 legs
12. anonymous
I am sure in the future there will be an easier way than this
13. Karen Challinor
the first transatlantic call just needed a really long piece of string to work
14. Mike Pamley
Getting Jim back out of the barrel was proving to be quite tricky.
15. Mike Parmley
"Hold it steady, or the sticky backed plastic will rip!"
16. Valerie Ganne
Of course, it’ll work better when there’s at least one satellite up there
17. kenneth wilkinson
"I told you not to get the family sized baked beans."
18. Corlis Byrne
I say, is that a Cardinal Beetle down by your foot?
19. Ian Sargent
Techies try to recreate that moment when the flag was raised on Iwo Jima.
20. Nicky
Uh oh... I just looked at what the team next to are building, and the Sputnik Spotters seem to think it should look more like this:
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3066886.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=32F168F2F013CA9A336B021CB2488FF9A55A1E4F32AD3138
21. Richard Billett
A double life-size Bertie Bassett statue in a field in the middle of nowhere? Brilliant!
22. Dave Eagle
As he studied the taught buttocks of the young men, the Headmaster congratulated himself on his fiendishly simple plan.
23. ian herold
some people never tire of superglue pranks
24. Paul Seligman
This is not a competition entry. Just a question.
This 'bottle of bubbly' that you always offer as a prize. How do we know exactly what it is? Maybe salts to make your bath bubbly. Or lemonade. How big is it? It could be 10ml and stilll meet the description. What brand is it?
Whatever, it isn't a prize that remotely interests me, or would make me think of a caption. Why not have something with a value that exceed a round of drinks, say?
25. David Bowen
Pushing a tin can up a CD case may sound easy but not when you're only 6" tall.
26. Karen Challinor
the team thought there might be a slight drawback with the Galileo GPS unit
27. Karen Challinor
left a bit ! ... nope still not getting multiplex 2 on freeview
28. Karen Challinor
little did the team realise but Damien Hirst had already superglued them to the new sculpture
29. Karen Challinor
first full size model of ID card revealed
30. Karen Challinor
even with three people it was proving difficult to lift the satellite into orbit
31. Karen Challinor
the answer to the age old question of "how many engineers does it take to build a satellite tracking device" is finally revealed
32. Karen Challinor
don't worry lads, they'll soon stop laughing when we get the radome around it
33. Karen Challinor
try as they might they just couldn't make sense of these Ikea wardrobe instructions
34. Karen Challinor
oh yes they'll spend all day building a satellite tracking device, but you just try getting them to do the washing up
35. Karen Challinor
McGuyver finally reveals where it all started
36. Nick Bentley
Archive shot of a typical Carry On Film "knob" gag being built
37. Nick Bentley
Britain joined the space race in typical budget fashion having borrowed a cannon from the local circus.
38. Paul
But if the table was level Hagrids drink wouldn't keep sliding off!!
39. Phil Stevens
When I said "CAN the Microsoft surface idea", I didn't mean literally!
40. anonymous
Saddam's first attempt at building a Super Gun was off to a great start!
41. Chris Johnson
"I told you that leg was wonky!"
42. Carl Grainger
and for being out standing in their own field the nobel prize goes to...
43. Nicky
Bernard Lovell realises that a bit more design work is going to be needed before building Jodrell v1.2
44. anonymous
Aliens had landed, but we weren't quite sure what to do with it...
45. John Ray
Capacitors were much larger fifty years ago.
46. Dan Zamoyski
This R.A.T. (Radial Axial Telemeter) is a bit cumbersome... let's make a smaller one and call it a MOUSE (Mobile Occular Uni-Operator Scanning Enabler).
47. anonymous
Ever-Ready engineers assemble the world's first solar battery charger.
48. Dave Devine
The Blue Peter team underestimate the weight of the squeezy bottle and sticky back plastic
49. Malcolm Wilson
Construction of Microsoft's latest Surface technology table was going well until they tried to install the CPU cooling fan.
50. Audrey
This IS Cape Kennedy, but it’s Cape Charles Kennedy
51. Audrey
Perhaps Blue Peter were not the best sponsors for Britain’s entry into the Space Race
52. Audrey
The British were thwarted in their attempt to be first into space by a shortage of sticky-back plastic
53. Nick Fowler
Sorry, guys, but I’ve been reading these IKEA assembly instructions upside-down
54. Nick Fowler
One day, you know, everyone will have one of these on their roof
55. kenneth wilkinson
""If you think this is big you should see the size of the tin opener."
56. Mark Daniel
It was at this point that Fred (man on left) realised he should have not left Penelope on the inside of the bean tin!
57. Mark Daniel
It was just dawning on them that they had fogotten to get all four legs for the table from the Ikea warehouse, and that they would have to go back again!
58. Mike Parmley
"Look - if you sing 'Roll out the barrel' one more time I'm going to swing for you!"
59. Mike Parmley
This was going to set a new low in the whole history of Scrapheap Challenge.
60. Mike Parmley
Archive photo of BBC special effects dept. constructing Blake's 7 scenery.
61. Ken Munn
When Jim-Bob said it "wurn't worth no hill of beans," I'm not sure we were meant to take it literally.
62. Richard Peters
Local government workers reveal their 'once a month' green wastpaper basket project to the press.
63. Malcolm George
Early Blue Peter attempts at Sat Nav prove a little impractical
64. Tim Ware
The ground station was easy, they have cracked the satellite antenna. The real challenge lies in the wet string.
65. Tim Ware
Little did they know that the Columbus module would take over 50 years to complete.
66. Richard
A barrel of laughs: UK's Space programme.
67. Richard
Even in those days, managers just stood back & watched.
68. Richard
UK's secret weapon: Giant seaside "rock."
69. Dee Syed
"I'm tellin' ya man, one of these days we're gonna fit a billion of these darn transistors onto a chip the size of a postage stamp..."
70. Karen Challinor
Dave couldn't bring himself to tell them it was upside down
71. Mike Parmley
What do you mean "it's not geostationary?"
72. Richard
Team building exercise on a 1950's YouTube.
73. Chris Sanderson
Keep it coming, we'll get the last of those giant baked beans out of there any moment