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Backyard weather balloon sent to space
A couple guys rigged a video camera and an iPhone to a weather balloon and let it go, then tracked it down to recover it.
http://vimeo.com/15091562
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Re: Backyard weather balloon sent to space
very cool
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Re: Backyard weather balloon sent to space
Thats awesome, amazing how it only was 30 miles away when it landed.
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Re: Backyard weather balloon sent to space
Pretty cool
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Re: Backyard weather balloon sent to space
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Thats awesome, amazing how it only was 30 miles away when it landed.
That's what I thought considering it encountered 100mph+ winds in the upper atmosphere.
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Re: Backyard weather balloon sent to space
Wow that video was really inspiring! That child is gonna change the world in the future if he keeps up being interested in awesome things like that. Great parent as well.
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Re: Backyard weather balloon sent to space
freaking sweet. I personally consider space to be anything further than 300 miles away from earth, lol. SO it went to the upper atmosphere, not space. I'd like to make something like that sometime. You could keep it going too and get way way out there.
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Re: Backyard weather balloon sent to space
Awesome video
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Re: Backyard weather balloon sent to space
amazing!
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Re: Backyard weather balloon sent to space
I'm gonna go buy some weather ballons and a lawn chair and maybe a oxgyen tank. Brb going to space! Ha They did this same thing on G4 its effen science but i think it landed like a 100 miles away or somthing crazy.
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Re: Backyard weather balloon sent to space
That's awesome. I only got model rockets as a kid, this kid is super lucky.
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Re: Backyard weather balloon sent to space
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That's awesome. I only got model rockets as a kid, this kid is super lucky.
Haha, and those go what, 1 mile up at most?
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Re: Backyard weather balloon sent to space
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Haha, and those go what, 1 mile up at most?
If that.
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