I must have got the crazy science ones while you got the crazy home ec - worst we did in home ec was accidentally turn the whipped cream into butter... oh, and made a rum (flavoured) and rasin ice cream.
Did you also have the group that had competition to see who could hold hot glue the longest, wacked eachother with metal rulers held over bunsen burners, and snorted citric acid when you made sherbert?
In high school electronics we also used a tesla coil (that can kill you if you touch the wrong place) so they disconnected the mains cord so it had to be rewired prior to use to keep us safer.
They taught us how to wire plugs the following week...
You capture it, send the crew home (or dont) and the just say "what ship" every time you are asked. Or "we're working on returning it", ""its just being investigated for an unrelated reason", or the ever popular "we remember sending it last week, im sure it's on the way". All of which must be done while it's parked in a very obvious place with clearly nothing being done.
12k a year - gets really depressing when you realize how many years it takes to buy a house, and in America how many years a small medical event costs you.
its just monkeys singing songs mate, don't think to hard on it