To the Stratosphere and back, on a weather balloon

UltimateBMW · 09-26-2009, 01:44 AM

I thought this was pretty cool.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5b4_1253879100

pittsy · 09-26-2009, 08:06 AM

dizzy

ejazbmw · 09-26-2009, 11:33 AM

wasn't this done but the MIT kids?

SoYank · 09-26-2009, 01:52 PM

Too bad they didn't have a GPS receiver giving position, altitude, and speed in the recording.

ejazbmw · 09-26-2009, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by SoYank

Too bad they didn't have a GPS receiver giving position, altitude, and speed in the recording.

well they did have a gps to recover the camera i think they only spent like 110bucks for the whole project

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