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Protecting Your Tablet From a Fall From Space
First time accepted submitter xwwt writes "G-Form has a nice video of an iPad launched into the stratosphere via weather balloon and protected using its new protective gear 'Extreme Edge' to see how well the gear worked in the iPad free fall to Earth. The gear is being introduced at this year's CES where our own timothy will be attending and reviewing new products. The cool part of this whole video is really that the iPad survives the free fall from space, remaining fully functional."
The only thing I'm legally allowed to drop from my paraglider is water, that's over inhabited or uninhabited space
in any case, I'm wondering what the rules are for dropping random things from the sky.
This is a secondary source, but pretty good
http://www.eoss.org/pubs/far_annotated.htm
If you mean legal civil liability its not a whole heck of a lot different than dropping things from a bridge, or tossing something off the top of a building.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
The article says "The high-definition video shows the iPad falling from a height of 100,000 feet (30,480 meters)".
Honestly, the way it was falling tells me it was weighted to fall with the face pointing up. Plus it lands face up, let's try that again making sure it lands face down without an arm making sure it does not land on the glass front.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
It was curved because of a wide angle lens.
With that lens you can see a curved earth from sea level if the center is above the horizon.
When the center is below the horizon you get a concave looking earth.
Didn't you notice how the earth appeared concave up there too?
The camera isn't exactly unprotected. It's a GoPro Hero, which comes with a fairly thick acrylic case. They're designed to be attached to all sorts of stuff for extreme sports. Among other things, they're water proof to 180 feet.