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- thundershot69, on 10/10/2007, -1/+81This will be illegal soon.
- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -5/+52What kind of guys normally launch balloons?
- dajuggernaut, on 10/10/2007, -2/+40you will regret doing that... you will now be buried into oblivion.
- thenativeraver, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22http://www.sbszoo.com.nyud.net:8080/bear/sable/sable3.htm
That's amazing, I wouldn't mind trying something like this. - dajuggernaut, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20oh... i see where they are going with this.. those guys are trying to start and international space station voyeur website.. very clever. i think half the world wants to know what kind of freaky stuff goes on in there.
- Junkyarddawg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18My sources tell me that todays entry in mrgreenjeans diary is titled "How I Learned That Insulting Geeks Doesn't Make Me Popular On Digg".
- techmaster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17Actually, I believe it already is. There are certain height limits of what civilians are allowed to do, and I'm sure the limit isn't 22 miles high.
- dbizzell, on 10/10/2007, -3/+20no it is not. it is not awesome. you are not awesome and everything about you stinks of lewdness and putrid sweat covered in a sea of tornadoes made of teeth and fingernails and empty 24 ounce tall cans (you know the ones that have Dale Earnhardt Jr. on the cover, ya those ones).
Hey shiftgood, sorry about all that back there, I'm just stressed at work, you know how it is. - Junkyarddawg, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1722 miles? I really, really, doubt that.
- fLUx1337, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Umm, if its that high, how did it land so close??
I dont know anything about this, but I would expect it to drift a few hundred miles in some direction before it landed??
Ah well, very cool, I guess the earth really aint flat.. :P - ayeroxor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14what is this no punctuation for an entire post until the very end i once had a friend who did that but that was back in second grade is that you jeff murphy?
- adml_shake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14Wow, I so know what I'm doing with my kid for his science fair project
- smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14because art and photography, and basically anything creative/beyond the imagination or understanding of conservative tightwads like our nation's law enforcement, are perceived as a threat to our society/the status quo. many government officials think that any behavior outside of "the norm" as defined by them is suspicious and ought to be forbidden for the sake of national security.
there have been many incidences of this posted on digg--the boston "bomb hoax," photographers being harassed by cops and security guards, aerial photography being outlawed, etc. it's just the sad reality of the world we live in. this is primarily regarding the U.S., but i imagine britain and other countries, like canada even, have probably been affected as well. it seams as though our biggest export right now is a culture of fear and paranoia/suspicion. - MrSidnet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Guys that dont spend all day on Digg? Guys that actually *do* stuff?
- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Finally got the images on their web site to load. They actually got a lot of cool shots. It would be cool to try but with my luck, it would land on one of the many military bases around here and cause all kinds of stink.
- Ibox, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/hotairballoon/2443828 they show map if you read the article. it did go quite away, thats what the tracking device was for.
- kidcodea, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10recent? ITS WHAT MADE DIGG!
- SoundDoc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Why'd we do it? lol cause we can, and its fun. Lol... big game of hide and seek. Never seen one of my servers hit Digg.. wondered what happened to it, lol.. I'm actually his son, for him to do all this and then do the web site, the design might be 10 years old, lol.. but he's 60, so I'll give him a break. This package wasn't really anything big or special, the BEAR flights we more techical, with radio repeaters and more sensors. APRS on this flight via Tinytrack, picked up by the chase trucks, and luckly passed to the APRS-IS gateway as I didn't have a tnc in the truck and was tracking using the APRS-IS feed in google earth. How do you get the pictures back? You gotta find the camera... ;)
Its not as simple as just throwing a radio in a box and tying it to a ballon, some groups do that, but half the time it fails. Theres weight issues, payload planning, winds aloft data to look at so it doesn't end up countries away... rate of rise, etc... look at some of our other packages, very custom equipment and lots of planning. Powers one of the biggest issues. need lightweight, with low impedence, and lots of capactity, but its also gotta work at -65C, and in very low pressure without blowing. - NRX22, on 07/23/2008, -0/+7where's Joe Kittinger when you need him...
- nodonoug, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8From your lolcat speech, it is pretty clear that you are not an ordinary guy.
- spohnj1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Sadly, you speak the truth!
- torindkflt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6A couple years back, someone did the same thing by attaching a hacked and reprogrammed Ritz Dakota Digital single-use camera to a weather balloon. Theirs only made it to about 50,000 feet before falling back to earth, but it still took some pretty impressive pictures. Not bad for an $11 1.2MP digital camera hanging from a balloon.
http://sunsite.utk.edu/%7Emcoffey/ux-1/ - jcims, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6how timely! just trying to spread some truth over at liveleak for the moon landing conspiracy retards that 'figured out' the landing was fake because there were NO STARS IN THE PHOTOS!!
- nepawoods, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Yeah, a 22 mile long vine, light enough to be lifted by the balloon.
- khfn, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I'm kind of surprised they weren't arrested for suspected terrism
- danlovejoy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7It's a shame they printed that ugly date and time on every photo, when the camera, set properly, encodes it into the EXIF data. Now it can't really be removed.
- seanc6610, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6What kinda commercial jet flies at 22 miles up?
- UnstableMind, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Aren't we free to do what the hell we want? Isn't there a ceiling to sovereign territory? Isn't that how we, the U.S., get away w/spying using our U2 planes? Whoever the ***** says you can't innovate and explore can go straight to hell. This is awesome and no-one needs to be kept from experimenting and exploring.
Good Job Guys... - smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4that can be easily cropped out or removed in photoshop with the clone tool.
- rodgerdodger5, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Sort of amazing to ponder that this would be considered VERY high tech and impossible right down to the manufacture of the balloon only 50 years ago. The first US communications satellite (reflector) Echo I was just a huge mylar balloon in 1960. I have a piece of the material that was sent around to promote the space program. It looks pretty much just like the metalized mylar balloons you get in the grocery store now because it is the same stuff. They need to make them a bigger balloon or balloon cluster out of metalized mylar and try to get higher!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_1 - BlueStreak69, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Hmmm so you're saying that they had Nikon digital cameras back then...
- jasdf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Good question. 2.5 hours is an awful lot of time. The winds can easily be over 150mph between ~20,000-50,000 feet
- nepawoods, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I'd like to experiment with having a helium balloon lift a steel javelin 22 miles high and letting it go. Wonder where it will land?
- twishart, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I was sorta hoping it would get hooked on the wing of a plane halfway up, and dragged around the planet. That'd make for some good pictures. Bitch of a recovery effort though.
- scholbenator, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4This reminds me of when I used to tie Lego people and firecrackers to baloons.
- zimok, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3But they're just ordinary guys, they can't think of everything!
- smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3very impressive indeed. but i'm wondering couldn't they have flipped a few of these pics: http://www.sbszoo.com.nyud.net:8080/bear/sable/images/sbl3/x800/12-30.htm , http://www.sbszoo.com.nyud.net:8080/bear/sable/images/sbl3/x800/12-25.htm
they're so disorientating to look at. - Error601, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Luck...It looks they had winds that turned it around halfway through the flight.
- GliTCH82, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yeah, damn those Canadians taking better pictures than us. How dare they!
- smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3dude, grammar anal-retentiveness isn't a measure of intelligence. in fact, most engineers, cs/science majors have really poor writing skills--that's why they're science/engineering, not english, majors.
- sctwp09, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The camera parachuted to earth and landed safely after the helium balloon popped. RTFA moron.
- HelpIamSober, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Good job... I know first hand how hard a launch like this really is, I happened to be involved with the EOS series of launches down here in Maine. I think we hit 70,000 once but that was about it. In fact we launced one once where the string holding the camera, a simplex repeater and our identification cards broke at launch sending up just the Tinytrak. of course to make matters worse the batteries died at elevation and we never could find it. Oh well. It was still fun. To build a "Mission Control" on somebodys back lawn was fun in and of itself. Oh by the way, The call here is KB1FIG, thank you for enhancing the hobby.
- cindylauper, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Really cool idea, wonder how realistic of a do it yourselfer this is?
- SoundDoc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Lol. Digg QSO, VE6RKY, The real man behind its my dad VE6SBS, hopefully in the next year we want to do a another launch or two, with a microwave link and ptz video stream. bit more adventurous... This one took 5th place for height, I want to build a package to go after #1.... ;)
- creator123, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2they are geek with extreme, I think
- jlaing, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4This is pretty cool. And I thought xkcd was cool with his kite: http://xkcd.com/kite/
- DaffyDuck, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4It had to go through normal plane airspace to get 22 miles up, you know.
- ayeroxor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"not english, majors"
priceless. Unfortunately for you, however, ability to speak and write is a direct reference to cognitive ability. Show me one scientist who has ever made a difference in the world even though they couldn't speak or write correctly in their era. You can't. - adml_shake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I said "with" not "for"
- creamy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I've always wanted to do that. :)
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