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Geek Culture / Do-It-Yourself Outer Space Film: By Father and Son

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JLMoondog
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Posted: 12th Oct 2010 23:56 Edited at: 12th Oct 2010 23:57
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This is really cool. To top it off, the kid is wearing a Star Wars T-Shirt.

My dad an I tried to do this with a multi-stage rocket but never got past 5 miles because of misfires and weather conditions.


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DJ Almix
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Posted: 13th Oct 2010 00:13
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WOW, that was really cool!

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SpyDaniel
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Posted: 13th Oct 2010 00:24
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Has that ever been done before? First time I've ever seen an assent into space from nothing more than just a balloon.

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 13th Oct 2010 01:07
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That is totally epic.

SpyDaniel,

They used a weather balloon. Of course it's happened before, it's just awesome that a guy did this with his son by themselves


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I never realized u can do that with a balloon, is that ticker than a normal balloon?

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MSon
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I remember reading about someone planning a manned mission in a balloon into low orbit once, but that was years ago so a suppose they never did it.

I am surprised that the phone lasted that long with the low temperatures it would have been in.

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Melancholic
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Getting it up there would be easy. Finding it after would be bloody hard. Making sure the equipment doesn't get damaged would be harder. Risking a hd cam and iphone, in my eyes, even harder

It was actually quite inspirational, makes me want to route up my picaxe micro controller and do something cool!


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I can only imagine some government group got a little nervous as to why cell phone and GPS transmitter were 30,000 feet above the ground! That is extremely awesome. I wonder how elaborate they could make that thing.

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Neuro Fuzzy
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This is really really cool, but...

far from original and not incredibly hard (not easy!).

O'course thats not to say this isn't pretty amazing.


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JLMoondog
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ionstream: Actually whenever you want to launch a foreign object higher then I think 5k feet you must register it with certain government groups and you must notify your local air traffic control. As long as you do that, you can launch anything you want...well, except an actual exploding rocket or something.


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Posted: 14th Oct 2010 10:27
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Quote: "I can only imagine some government group got a little nervous as to why cell phone and GPS transmitter were 30,000 feet above the ground! That is extremely awesome. I wonder how elaborate they could make that thing."

Consumer GPS units can't function at a certain height. Not a technology limitation, but a government regulation. They do it so consumer GPS units can't be used to work on missiles or to imitate (whether or not it's intentional) missiles.

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Metal Devil123
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Posted: 16th Oct 2010 22:14
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That was REEAAALLY cool!

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Posted: 16th Oct 2010 23:08
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i want to sent a hatchet into space in a weather balloon.


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Posted: 16th Oct 2010 23:13
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that was amazing

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