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RocketMan
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This is cool: A chair floating to the edge of space
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November 20, 2009, 05:20:46 PM »
Part of an HDTV ad campaign by Toshiba. The story and an image is
here.
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Re: This is cool: A chair floating to the edge of space
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November 20, 2009, 05:21:58 PM »
Why not CG?
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RocketMan
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Re: This is cool: A chair floating to the edge of space
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November 20, 2009, 05:32:01 PM »
Too easy, not genuine enough. That would be my guess.
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If there really was intelligent life on other planets, we'd be sending them foreign aid.
Conservatives see George Orwell's "1984" as a cautionary tale. Progressives view it as a "how to" manual.
My wife often says to me, "You are evil and must be destroyed." She may be right.
Liberals believe one should never let reason, logic and facts get in the way of a good emotional argument.
AZRedhawk44
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Re: This is cool: A chair floating to the edge of space
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November 20, 2009, 05:55:38 PM »
Yeah, but it's only the INSIDE edge of space.
When they gonna make it float to the OUTSIDE edge?
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Headless Thompson Gunner
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Re: This is cool: A chair floating to the edge of space
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November 20, 2009, 06:04:40 PM »
So they can send something up 100,000 feet on a balloon, then drop it on a parachute, and it'll land where they expect it to?
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Re: This is cool: A chair floating to the edge of space
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November 20, 2009, 06:09:22 PM »
They probably added GPS tracking devices to them. Those are cheap these days.
There are a couple of high power rocket launches held at Black Rock every year. Some of those folk's rockets go to 75k or better, and most have some sort of radio or GPS trackers built in so the hardware can be found post-flight.
The Black Rock dry lake bed and surrounding desert is pretty big.
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If there really was intelligent life on other planets, we'd be sending them foreign aid.
Conservatives see George Orwell's "1984" as a cautionary tale. Progressives view it as a "how to" manual.
My wife often says to me, "You are evil and must be destroyed." She may be right.
Liberals believe one should never let reason, logic and facts get in the way of a good emotional argument.
AZRedhawk44
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Re: This is cool: A chair floating to the edge of space
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November 20, 2009, 06:09:54 PM »
It only had about 2 hours to drift on the wind, even at 100K feet. It fell in the same state.
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Gewehr98
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Re: This is cool: A chair floating to the edge of space
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November 20, 2009, 08:57:22 PM »
Wow.
If I was this guy, I'd be some sort of pissed-off:
http://www.simonfaithfull.org/proj_escape6.html
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Re: This is cool: A chair floating to the edge of space
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November 21, 2009, 03:39:21 PM »
I sure hoped they checked the balloon for 4-year-olds before they released it....
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