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    Image of pevans34 pevans34
    09/17/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    This story just emblazoned the image in my mind of "space blimps", and mustached pirates armed with steam powered single shot rifles... in space
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    Image of Sticks Calhoun Sticks Calhoun
    09/24/09

    @pevans34: ...Last Exile?
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    Image of MrBlahBlah MrBlahBlah
    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    this is cool, but can't launch from a coast, since there's a good chance it'll end up in the water
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    If this sort of thing becomes a growing trend, I fear our metahuman citizens that zoom through the upper atmosphere to stop evil madmen from destroying the earth will have a serious issue with debris.
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    Image of UgoKliker UgoKliker
    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    Yeah, but wait for Homeland Security to pay them a visit. Just musing, but with the cheapness, and the ability to move a payload 20 miles, don't you think that this could be a viable method for drug trafficer's to move small loads of coke or other valuable cargo across the border. They could track the shipment, and have people in place to retrieve it. No need for chancing the border inspections. Come to think of it, rocketry would have its uses also.
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    09/14/09


    @UgoKliker: They already smuggle drugs and cash this way.
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    Image of chauncy that billups chauncy that billups
    09/14/09

    @craighyatt: Either that or they are smuggling lots and lots of big balloons. Wouldn't be too concealed though...
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    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    That is wicked cool! It occurs to me that if you were willing to use disposable parts and sacrifice picture quality, you could strip down a pay-as-you-go camera cellphone and hack it (java app) to MMS or email photos back to a server. Strip off the case and extra stuff to save weight. You could probably add some cheap telemetry like temperature and pressure through the accessory port... take a look at www.sparkfun.com for sensors. Just sacrifice the phone... if anybody finds it and tries to make calls you are only out whatever the cost of the phonecard. That idea eliminates GPS and the recovery cycle to make the whole thing cheaper. You might get away with conventional balloons for a test flight given the reduced payload, but I expect you'd need a weather balloon for the kind of altitude these guys achieved. Anyway, just a sketch of an idea for any aspiring middle-schoolers out there. :)
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    Image of NurseDave NurseDave
    09/14/09

    @craighyatt: Woohoo! Launch your shit and leave your trash just where it lands. Perfect.
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    09/14/09


    @NurseDave: pffft. yeah, like it's going to make a diff.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    Why didn't they just use a monkey with an oxygen canister?
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    09/14/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: In Russia, the monkey makes humans go in rocketship.
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    Image of JayhawkJake JayhawkJake
    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    I've done two or three of these kinds of launches, I'm president of a club at the University of Kansas that does these. We are going to be launching a rocket from a balloon hopefully by the end of this year. It's nice that they did it for cheap, but the only real place they save much money is radios. We use insulating foam and mylar to build our boxes.
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    Image of wingbatwu wingbatwu
    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    I would launch at night to see more stars, or maybe a "sunset"
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    Image of deliciousburglar deliciousburglar
    09/14/09

    @wingbatwu: while a nice idea, i don't think there would be enough light for the camera.
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    switchblade saints promoted this comment deliciousburglar was starred deliciousburglar was unstarred
    Image of switchblade saints switchblade saints
    09/14/09

    @deliciousburglar: use a flash.

    /sacasm
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    Image of wingbatwu wingbatwu
    09/14/09

    @deliciousburglar: a sunset would still be cool, also maybe on a night with a full moon.
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    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    This is why I want to go to MIT when I grow up.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    09/14/09

    @Curves: I used to think the same thing. Then, as I approached 40, I realized I may never grow up.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    09/14/09

    @FrankenPC: We have no control (outside death) of getting older, but we can certainly keep our immaturity as long as we want.
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    Image of ELPARTO ELPARTO
    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    Hm, I actually do feel like dumping $150 on this. I can print the pictures and put them in my bathroom. Then when people use the bathroom and come back and wonder what website I got those awesome space pictures from...I can tell them they were mine.
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    09/14/09

    @ELPARTO: good call but why the bathroom? Perhaps over the fire place would be more of a conversation starter. I wouldn't want people making bathroom faces at my hard work. Although I do see me putting my diploma in the bathroom just for kicks.
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    Image of InsidiousTuna InsidiousTuna
    09/14/09

    @Mess Yo Self!: Diploma goes right over the toilet for that extra touch of class.
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    Image of ELPARTO ELPARTO
    09/14/09

    @Mess Yo Self!: Oh, if I've found anything it's that sticking pictures in the bathroom is a great conversation starter.

    For instance, I have a creepy picture of Thomas Edison currently in there. It used to sit on my desk while I was in college, but when I moved into this place there was a nail in the bathroom wall...and I just happened to be holding the picture at the time.

    Everyone asks me about it when they're done doing their business. Especially women since it faces opposite the toilet.
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    09/14/09


    @Mess Yo Self!: It's this picture BTW
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    Image of DakotaHamish DakotaHamish
    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    We loaded a Canon A470 camera (bought used on Amazon) with CHDK open source software to enable a feature which allowed the camera to take pictures continuously (intervalometer). Using this feature, we set the camera to take a picture every 5 seconds at a 1/800 second shutter speed. With an 8GB card, the camera was able to chronicle the whole journey of the balloon from launch to retrieval. (~5 hours)
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    Image of Danny Allen Danny Allen
    09/14/09

    @DakotaHamish: Hey there, I'd love for you to contribute any specifics to the story...can you email me at dallen@gizmodo.com? Thx! : )
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    I can see my house from there! I can also see Barbara Striesand's, so these students better watch out.
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    Image of ospreyguy ospreyguy
    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    How do you make the camera take the pictures? I get the idea but I have to push the button on mine...
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
    09/14/09

    @ospreyguy: Very small child/trained gerbil.
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    Image of defuse defuse
    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    I live right next to LAX, I would love to do this but I need to find a open space away from the city? South OC???
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    Image of banmojo banmojo
    09/14/09

    @defuse: Don't call it that.
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    Homerjay likes Belgiumese Puke Porn promoted this comment banmojo was starred banmojo was unstarred
    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    09/14/09

    @banmojo: Now you know how it feels when you people come to Boston and call it Beantown.
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    Image of MaQ MaQ
    09/14/09

    In reply to MIT Students Explain How to Photograph Space for $150
    Can I hire them to put up a satellite for me, I could go up to 300$ ?
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