Two high school kids (17 years old) send a lego man into space!
Teens Send Lego Man into Space
ABC News
by Lauren Sher
A Lego man went on one wild ride when two Canadian teenagers attached the toy to a homemade weather balloon, complete with video cams, and launched it into the stratosphere.
Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, two 17-year-olds from outside Toronto, designed and built a helium weather balloon for the Lego man‘s joyride, according to the Toronto Star. They mounted four different cameras to the contraption to record it all, and sent the toy into the atmosphere, where it climbed to an estimated 80,000 feet.
The tiny toy, holding an even tinier Canadian flag, cleared the Earth’s atmosphere during the 97-minute journey and captured astonishing footage of the Earth from above.
“We didn’t really believe we could do it until we did,” Ho told the Star, which first reported on the teens’ project Wednesday.
The humble experiment began four months ago and was completely homespun, according to the Star. On a budget of $500, Ho and Muhammad scoured Craigslist for cameras, sewed their own balloon parachute at Muhammad’s mother’s sewing machine, bought the necessary pieces online, and then assembled it all, using a Styrofoam box as the base.
The teens were able to recover the Lego man and cameras, which landed approximately 75 miles from the Toronto park where they launched it, thanks to a cell phone’s GPS app they affixed to the device.
“It shows a tremendous degree of resourcefulness,” University of Toronto Astrophysics professor Dr. Michael Reid told the Star. “For two 17-year-olds to accomplish this on their own is pretty impressive.”
This is why being a nerd is good!
Posted by: Edek(Eddie) | January 27, 2012 at 08:18 PM
AHH IGN just featured a pony mod for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim!
YAAYYYYY!
[Woulda posted link but..bad comments are there AND some bad language in vid :/]
Posted by: Edek(Eddie) | January 27, 2012 at 08:21 PM
Yay! http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation444504&feature=iv&v=KEnpTNcrehw&src_vid=4qZ3FQd1Ce8
Posted by: Dylan | January 27, 2012 at 09:48 PM
Even though that guy is a Brony, BEST MUSIC I'VE HEARD IN MY LIFE. Ironically i was listening his music hours before you posted! I need to get the sheet music for this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjDgkzIlJOM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OJ6YhU8GdY&feature=related
^ Nostalgia Attack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FApvioT6tjo&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fi6Y2hvLFg&feature=related
[Watch out for bad comments that i haven't spotted, some fans use some pretty.. unnecessary words to express how awesome it is]
Posted by: Edek(Eddie) | January 27, 2012 at 09:57 PM
Dozing off because of overdose of awesomeness, or going temporarily deaf is very common side effects of this music.
Posted by: Edek(Eddie) | January 27, 2012 at 09:58 PM
I liked Octavias Return and Scratching harmony alot... you know, there's a re-orchestrated version of that song:Scratching Harmony :) So yeah.... I looked into his songs and found these three. They're extremely amazing, and I couldn't believe it. Check 'em out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ9jkbpESxA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUs92Guh1Mk&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcVXSD-7kQ&feature=related hope ya like em.
Posted by: Dylan | January 28, 2012 at 08:16 AM
very interesting?
Posted by: Emily A, The Super Fashionable and Cute Chick | January 28, 2012 at 09:14 AM
I'm listening to Odyssey ATM.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAxfytiP6BY&feature=related
Oh and nostalgia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GBL6vOt2rQ&feature=related
Posted by: Edek(Eddie) | January 28, 2012 at 11:38 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYB6iZqrzjM&feature=related
Yay another avast song.
Posted by: Edek(Eddie) | January 28, 2012 at 11:47 AM
hI pEoPlZ!!!!
Posted by: kHoCcO rOcKz! c: | January 28, 2012 at 09:39 PM
yeah right
Posted by: Connor | January 29, 2012 at 12:05 AM
I bored.
Posted by: Dylan | January 29, 2012 at 08:06 AM
Notch Persson was a genius to implement electrical wiring and noteblocks into a video game. This is art, my frineds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4qQHWP0GXg and this is a little goofy but.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdtTYiV9CIg&feature=related people love this one... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZtZ60OW7-s&feature=related awesome, huh?
Posted by: Dylan | January 29, 2012 at 10:02 AM
@Dylan- interesting Dylan... :)
Posted by: M. Regala-, votre enseignant | January 29, 2012 at 02:31 PM
@Connor -up late? Hope you had a good weekend! See you tomorrow!
Posted by: M. Regala-, votre enseignant | January 29, 2012 at 02:32 PM
Love it Mr.Regala!
Posted by: Thalia | January 29, 2012 at 05:46 PM
I came back yestetday from a tennis tournament at like 4 am!
Posted by: Thalia | January 29, 2012 at 05:54 PM
@Thalia - How did you do? You must be tired... Hopefully you can get some rest and be bright eye'd and bushy tailed for tomorrow! :)
Posted by: M. Regala-, votre enseignant | January 29, 2012 at 06:12 PM
@Thalia -I just watched the highlights from the Nadal and Djokovic match in Australia... wow! What a long match!
Posted by: M. Regala-, votre enseignant | January 29, 2012 at 06:14 PM
Oh wow! I found this awesome thing on youtube called "le internet medley"... it's pretty awesome, combining all the internet videos into a medley song including Badgers, nyan cat, ima firing ma lasers, trolololo,numa numa, leek spin, and for some reason using celery as guitar picks and drum sticks (???). So yeah, check it out- i'm too lazy to post a link :D
Posted by: Dylan | January 29, 2012 at 07:49 PM
Dylan, the meme medley with 40 memes? I beat you to it.
Posted by: Edek(Eddie) | January 29, 2012 at 08:20 PM
Shwa......
Posted by: kHoCcO rOcKz! c: | January 29, 2012 at 08:30 PM
Schwa*
Posted by: kHoCcO rOcKz! c: | January 29, 2012 at 08:30 PM
what are the countries we are supposed to meorize for the passport club? i forgot mine at school!(oops!)
Posted by: MADDIEMO | January 30, 2012 at 06:52 PM
HI RANDOM PEOPLE ON THE WEBSITE RIGHT NOW!!!!
Posted by: Alyssa/party-rocken kung-fu panda | January 30, 2012 at 06:55 PM