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High-Altitude Balloon Tweets Earth
celsomartinho writes "Spacebits is yet another low-cost High-Altitude Balloon (HAB) with a computer probe being launched to near space on 30 May, this time in Portugal. The twist with this project, besides the cool electronics, cameras, and sensors on board, is the fact that the team provided the online community with a real-time web dashboard so that everyone can follow the two-hour journey up to 100,000 feet and back to earth. Real-time data includes measurements from all its sensors, including temperature, pressure, humidity and air quality, altitude, acceleration, and GPS coordinates and a live Twitter feed. The team is also using a public GSM network to send SMS lat/lon/alt coordinates to anyone willing to go on launch site and participate in the probe hunt." The balloon goes off Memorial Day weekend, so bookmark the page if you're on call.
Altitude.
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I was going to post a rather trolling post about the misuse of "it's" instead of "its", but then thought that the submitter probably didn't have English as their first language and thus doesn't deserve my trolling. CmdrTaco has no such excuse, though. Anyway, please fix the mistake.
Its allways rong to be a grammer or speling troll. Get a lief. English evolves and it's ussers makes they're own rooles.
This ain't rocket surgery.