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nKoan
10-08-2010, 11:20 AM
Way cool!
http://www.brooklynspaceprogram.org/

A 7 minute condensed version of the flight is on Vimeo.
http://vimeo.com/15091562
AaronSofaer
10-08-2010, 11:49 AM
That's completely awesome. Those kids are incredibly cute, too. D'aww.
Jojo
10-08-2010, 01:55 PM
This is totally awesome. I really want to try that out when my boys are a little older. Old enough to provide an excuse, that is ;)
jerri blank
10-08-2010, 07:59 PM
Wow. I have so little head for these kinds of things that it never would have occurred to me that a family could get their hands on something that would take an object into space like that. Very cool.
Chris Nahr
10-09-2010, 02:20 AM
That's a fantastic video. Amazing how high they could get, just on a balloon... at 100,000 feet there doesn't seem to be any atmosphere left to float on!
Omniscia
10-09-2010, 06:05 AM
I heard the camera was hiding in the attic the entire time.
Alistair
10-09-2010, 06:35 AM
It's all ho-ho-ho until a 747 sucks one into an engine isn't it, hm? Or uses it as an IED. Or fills the balloon with nerve agent. That family have probably been disappeared already.
Dan_Theman
10-09-2010, 08:55 AM
Somewhat serious question oddly related to that - aren't you supposed to get clearance from your local FAA office before lauching something like that?
Enidigm
10-09-2010, 09:18 AM
It's so hard to get everything right.

It was a perfect in all ways except one: he choose almost the worst day to do it on, a nearly completely overcast day.
fire
10-09-2010, 09:20 AM
It only took 10 minutes to clear the clouds. Cool that the camera picked up radio noise in the stratosphere.
Jojo
10-09-2010, 09:43 AM
On their website, he mentions the FAA, so I suppose that might mean he did get permission.
Pogo
10-09-2010, 11:41 AM
It's all ho-ho-ho until a 747 sucks one into an engine isn't it, hm? Or uses it as an IED. Or fills the balloon with nerve agent.

Or the parachute fails and it kills someone or causes a car accident. That's a legitimate risk if someone doesn't have the parachute set up right.
Kool Moe Dee
10-09-2010, 11:53 AM
That was super cool.
noun
10-09-2010, 12:17 PM
So awesome. Thanks for posting this.
BigWeather
10-09-2010, 12:25 PM
I heard the camera was hiding in the attic the entire time.

I (and my family) LOL'd.

Very awesome story, mad props to the ingenuity involved.
RobotPants
10-10-2010, 12:51 AM
Someone posted a video of some other guy who did this same thing a while back. Pretty neat nonetheless.