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    You Too Can Fly Away In a Your Very Own Blimp

    New High-Def Home Video From The Edge of Space

    What Is This?

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/15/09

    In reply to You Too Can Fly Away In a Your Very Own Blimp
    Why bother with a shark blimp? Flaming arrows to shoot at other blimps works so much better. #balloons
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    Image of toadstoolporridge toadstoolporridge
    10/15/09

    In reply to You Too Can Fly Away In a Your Very Own Blimp
    Turns out there may have been another box attached to the gondola on the bottom of the metal blimp. I'm scared that the little boy could be really hurt. I hope they find him with minimal injuries, if any, and he walks away from this unscathed.

    EDIT: I wrote "fund" instead of "find."
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    lostarchitect promoted this comment Edited by toadstoolporridge at 10/15/09 5:08 PM toadstoolporridge was starred toadstoolporridge was unstarred
    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    10/15/09

    @toadstoolporridge: I'm with you. Let's hope for the best. #balloons
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    Image of toadstoolporridge toadstoolporridge
    10/15/09

    @toadstoolporridge: Well, it looks like an object was seen falling from the balloon. It was about 35 miles away from the home and rather high up in the air when the photo was taken. This story is looking like it won't have a happy ending, which is horribly unfortunate. #balloons
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    Image of Jake712 Jake712
    09/24/09

    In reply to New High-Def Home Video From The Edge of Space
    Tremendously cool, if somewhat vomit inducing.
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    Image of invictus2006 invictus2006
    09/24/09

    In reply to New High-Def Home Video From The Edge of Space
    makes me wish if man could only stop fighting over pathatic wars & think more about trying to reach for the stars :( oh well one can only dream.
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    GitEmSteveDave_woot'sOffSoHard promoted this comment invictus2006 was starred invictus2006 was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    09/24/09

    @invictus2006: Yes. If only we could have some kind of station in space, assembled with the labors and materials of more than one nation. An International Space Station, if you would.

    No, such a thing could never exist! Anyone who believes it could is talking crazy and needs their heads examined!
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    Image of invictus2006 invictus2006
    09/24/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_woot'sOffSoHard: The ISS is cool and every thing but its to small scale. The amount of money spent on "war" could be used for research and space travel, eventually this world is going to become over populated & is most likely going to run out of resources & then man is well and truly fucked! Maybe not in my life time but definitely somewhere down the line. Unless people start thinking ahead and not of now...humanity is doomed :(
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    Image of valkilmerisawful valkilmerisawful
    09/24/09

    @invictus2006: Wow, yeh that's the message I wanted to see with my morning coffee.
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    Image of invictus2006 invictus2006
    09/24/09

    @valkilmerisawful: Lol! its almost night here!
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    Image of invictus2006 invictus2006
    09/24/09

    @invictus2006: wheres the Edit button? *pathetic
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    09/24/09

    @invictus2006: You DO realize that out of war comes science. What came first, the Saturn or the V2? And what was the purpose of the V2? [en.wikipedia.org]
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    09/24/09

    In reply to New High-Def Home Video From The Edge of Space
    Any chance Red would let them borrow a cam now? THAT would be sweet.

    I also wonder if you could point the camera up or down, and make a cheap lens/mirror set up to record 360 degrees around the box, so you could do a panorama. Also mount the damn box on a swivel, to reduce the spinning and "Blair Witch/Cloverfield Effect".
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    Edited by GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag at 09/24/09 8:24 AM GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag was starred GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag was unstarred
    Image of JayhawkJake JayhawkJake
    09/24/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_woot'sOffSoHard: When we fly balloons here at KU, we've pointed a camera up to observe balloon dynamics, actually we did it once symply to see what happens to a two balloon system. It's interesting to say the least, however, our camera isn't the best so it seems to get over exposed high up. I believe we have a new camera, hopefully we can get some good video this year. I'll give you props for the idea of a swivel, but the box would spin on its own from the wind even if it wasnt spinning with the balloon
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    GitEmSteveDave_woot'sOffSoHard promoted this comment Edited by JayhawkJake at 09/24/09 10:26 AM JayhawkJake was starred JayhawkJake was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    09/24/09

    @JayhawkJake: Small gyro? How about pointing down with a fisheye type lens? Then you should get the over exposed effect, I would think. Also, if it was pointed down, and had a semi ballistic shape that would keep it pointing down instead of tumbling as it fell, I think that would make some nice picts,
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    Image of JayhawkJake JayhawkJake
    09/24/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_woot'sOffSoHard: A ballistic shape might not keep it pointing down at those altitudes, the air is very thin, but it might work. Pointing down would work fine, and we probably wouldn't have the problems we had before, but then again, the point of having the camera looking up is to observe the balloon. If you didn't know, what happens to the balloons is very interesting: as the air becomes less dense, they get bigger. Much bigger actually, and it's neat to observe this phenomena. Also, when dealing with 2 balloons as we plan to do with our rocket, it is useful to know how they act around each other. We were able to observe that at low altitudes the balloons stay as far away from each other as possible, but as the air thins they start getting closer and then freely move around each other. We've discussed why they act the way they do and have good reasoning for it, and we also now know that a twin balloon system will be a perfectly safe way to increase our payload capacity.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    09/24/09

    @JayhawkJake: Yeah, I knew they expand, which is why they eventually burst. As for the shape, I was thinking how the old space capsules didn't tumble coming in, and had the shield always pointing down. Don't know if that could be duplicated.

    I was mostly saying about the pointing down to get a better shot with possibly a panoramic/360 degree lens system.

    Just my pie in the sky hopes.
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    Image of trevisol: Stop putting words in my mouth trevisol: Stop putting words in my mouth
    09/24/09

    In reply to New High-Def Home Video From The Edge of Space
    I'm getting this going with the science teachers at the middle school where I work. The one thing that they never mention in these articles is if they use a parachute for the projectile, err, satellite.

    My biggest fear is that it's going to come crashing down at 100mph on I-95 and kill somebody.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    09/24/09


    @trevisol: Uhhhhhhh, did you even click on the links in the article? I'm guessing the purple and while circle shaped thing attached with strings isn't a funky flag.
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    Image of Yarr! Yarr!
    09/24/09

    @trevisol: They use parachutes. Think it is deployed halfway down cause parachutes have to be pretty damn big to be effective at 100 000 ft.
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    Image of trevisol: Stop putting words in my mouth trevisol: Stop putting words in my mouth
    09/24/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_woot'sOffSoHard: No I didn't have time to read the article about the video one. I saw a different picture of the MIT kids' project, and I saw a parachute there, attached the same way i would've done it, which is cool.

    I don't think we're going to be able to do it here. i can see it either being crushed on one of our many highways in suburban Broward county, or going in the ocean.
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    Image of ELPARTO ELPARTO
    09/24/09

    @Yarr!: I think it came out right away. I believe the guy holding the balloon earlier, set it on top of the foam cooler as it was taking off. But yeah, not very effective at 10kft, that thing was all over the place.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    09/24/09

    @ELPARTO: As they state in the article, the lines for the parachute became entangled with the lines and shards of the balloon after it burst. You can see it in the picture above.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    09/24/09

    In reply to New High-Def Home Video From The Edge of Space
    I love that they named it Icarus. Very cool.
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    Image of richoncode richoncode
    09/04/09

    In reply to What Is This?
    See a simulator for the Groovik's Cube here: [rhondabailey.com]
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    09/04/09

    In reply to What Is This?
    I'm going to venture to guess that it is an Art.
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    Image of JonathanATTY JonathanATTY
    09/04/09

    In reply to What Is This?
    @Dufus..They do. As you change the cube, the colors on the larger one change..
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    FredicvsMaximvs promoted this comment JonathanATTY was starred JonathanATTY was unstarred
    Image of dufus dufus
    09/04/09

    @JonathanATTY: Very cool!

    Now I wish I were at Burning man...
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    Image of P3nnst8r P3nnst8r
    02/11/09

    In reply to Ford Uses Balloon Cars for Crash Testing
    "Roads? Where we are going, we don't need roads."


    First thing i thought of.

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    Image of Rixon Rixon
    02/11/09

    In reply to Ford Uses Balloon Cars for Crash Testing
    Interesting how that car in the photo is not a Ford, but a Lincoln.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/11/09

    @Rixon: Which is owned by Ford.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    02/11/09

    In reply to Ford Uses Balloon Cars for Crash Testing
    HAHAHAHA... GM needs a bailout while Ford blows 10 grand on Nerf cars...
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    Image of madog madog
    02/11/09

    In reply to Ford Uses Balloon Cars for Crash Testing
    Two words for you: nerf cars!


    We're so close!

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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    02/11/09

    In reply to Ford Uses Balloon Cars for Crash Testing
    The Lincoln knew it had a problem when it stopped socializing with other cars to spend all it's time with it's inflatable friend.
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