Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Homemade spacecraft

http://vimeo.com/15091562

This video is amazing. Guy puts a camera in a homemade "spacecraft" and sends it into the stratosphere with a weather balloon.
Posted by Sir Smithhy around 4:16 PM

7 comments:

  1. Piripi AnxoSeptember 29, 2010 at 4:29 PM

    This is awsm!

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  2. GordonSeptember 29, 2010 at 4:39 PM

    I love amateur astronomy

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  3. /k/anadian!!qvAmR1ZzV4September 29, 2010 at 6:56 PM

    That's so damn cool..

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  4. myRoboticClawSeptember 29, 2010 at 9:27 PM

    How did he get the footage back? Live feed somehow? I want to go into space. =(

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  5. Sir SmithhySeptember 30, 2010 at 12:20 AM

    @ myroboticclaw, It didn't actually drift into space, they explain it in the video. Balloon goes up, slowly expands due to different air pressure, eventually bursts, falls back to earth with a parachute.

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  6. remziSeptember 30, 2010 at 3:33 PM

    Awesome

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  7. jamespwnsOctober 1, 2010 at 11:08 AM

    That's genius! Really awesome.

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