US farmer uses 300 cows to say 'Hi' to SpaceX rocket

KANSAS: A Kansas farmer who calls himself “cow artist” used about 300 of his animals to say “hi” to the Tesla-toting SpaceX rocket.

A Kansas farmer is impressed with Elon Musk’s launch of the SpaceX rocket “Falcon Heavy”. Derek Klingenberg, a cattle farmer who previously went viral for videos showing him playing trombone for the cows and using his feed truck to herd the cows into different “cow art” images, This week, the Peabody, Kan., farmer took his cow art to the next level by posting a video to YouTube showing him herding the animals to spell out the word “Hi.”

“My cows and I are super pumped about Elon Musk CEO of SpaceX shooting a Tesla into outer space,” Klingenberg said in the video. “We decided we want to do our own space amazingness, farmer style.”

Klingenberg says he will “try to get a satellite to take a picture of it” to prove that the SpaceX rocket could see the message from space.

The farmer said he receives daily satellite images of his farm from FarmersEdge, a company that uses Planet Labs satellites, so he estimated the time of the next photo and attempted to coordinate it with his feed truck stunt.

I had been waiting for fine weather,” Klingenberg said. “The problem was green grass was imminent up in a brome area. They ate the feed after that they went to the green grass.” If the satellite had approach 20 minutes prior, the “hi” spelled by the 300 cows would have looked even better, he said.

the photo was snapped by  SpaceX rocket at 10:35 a.m., when the cows were beginning to wander, but the message was still legible.

Klingenberg has also prepared farm-themed song parody, such as a trombone sing too of his cattle with Lorde’s “Royals.”