Two 17-year-olds from Toronto made a balloon to fly a minifig and camera 24 kilometers into the air. Check out the news article for photos and a video of this amazing feat.
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Two 17-year-olds from Toronto made a balloon to fly a minifig and camera 24 kilometers into the air. Check out the news article for photos and a video of this amazing feat.
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Very cool! I wonder how far down range the rig landed and what they used to track the landed rig, a phone?
That’s incredible.
Someone should do this with the travelling classic-castle fig.
That’s amazing! Quite the insipiration. I’ve gotta show my kids.
That is the best thing I have read all week.
What a wonderful story. Make sure you watch the video, too; the shots of it going up past the cloud cover and then with the earth’s curvature behind it are just crazy!
@ Blake – The article said that they did use a GPS enabled cell phone to track it. But they also used a weather balloon tracking site which estimates the landing area based on current wind direction etc. It ended up landing 122km from where it was launched.
It is really impressive and even how he got it to all float was even more Impressive