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DIY Space Photography
Four Spanish teenagers sent a camera-operated weather balloon into the stratosphere. The boys built the electronic sensor components from scratch. Gerard Marull Paretas, Sergi Saballs Vila, Marta Gasull Morcillo and Jaume Puigmiquel Casamort attached a £56 camera to a heavy duty £43 latex balloon, and sent their science project 20-miles above the Earth. Team leader Gerard Marull, 18, said, "We were overwhelmed at our results, especially the photographs, to send our handmade craft to the edge of space is incredible."
I'll be sure to be thinking of people putting random shit in the air.
From the article:
... [they] followed the progress of their balloon using high tech sensors communicating with Google Earth."
"Proving that you don't need Google's billions
Maybe they did need Google's billions.
...to pull off a stunt like that.
I think this is fantastic and that the guys who achieved this deserve all the (positive) attention they are getting. I wish more people thier age could get into sending stuff into space... actuially forget that last bit, we'll just end up with empty cans of lager and unsuspecting victims hanging in the sky over the UK.
BTDT?
Twiki? Is that you?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
No worries, most people don't RTFA
...to lift a 56 pound camera.
Do you have ESP?
An small nitpick... The captions are not in Catalonian. Are in Catalan.