Balloon Flight!

[DrftSLowHomIe!!]

A couple of guys attach a HD camera to a balloon and release it into the air, resulting in this video:

http://www.snotr.com/video/3064 (http://www.snotr.com/video/3064)

[exitspeed]

Somebody should do that over Area 51.

[HyperTek]

thats cool, wonder how far it traveled , obiously it says they recovered it and got the video footage from it.

[Matej]

That is pretty cool. I too wonder how far it traveled. I am guessing they were tracking it using GPS or something similar.


Somebody should do that over Area 51.
They sell RC airplane cameras nowadays. Let's do it.

[Touge Noob S13]

I didnt know ballons actually went up that high, cool vid.

[S13E]

thats crazy high... Joseph Kettinger jumped out of an air balloon in the 60's at pretty much the same height that balloon popped. I'd shart in my pants!

[DrftSLowHomIe!!]

i think the most crazy part is when the balloon blows up and the cam comes flyiin back down

[Agamemnon]

#6 "89 miles from the launch site after a 3 hr. & 56 min. flight" (from the webpage in the description of this video).

"The balloon and camera were launched at 7:44 AM, the balloon burst at 10:51 AM at 107,145 ft. and the camera landed via parachute at 11:40 AM, 89 miles from the launch site after a 3 hr. & 56 min. flight. The camera recorded a total of 4 hrs. & 22 min. of Hi-Def Video before it stopped recording 53 secs after landing, when its 32GB of memory was full. The only thing better would have been if the camera had recorded for several minutes more to captured the sound of us approaching and video of us opening its container."


Very cool!

[longdy]

that was a very interesting and cool ass film! good find

[Sleepy240]

Coolest video I've seen in awhile!! The distance that it traveled is pretty remarkable if you ask me

[zenki.life]

i agree. great find

[S14_Kouki]

I wonder how the balloon actually popped ??

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pressure maybe?

[DrftSLowHomIe!!]

^^ Thats my guess, i just like how everything looked from that up high coming down

[S14_Kouki]

pressure maybe?

Thats what I was thinking maybe it was close to a alien spaceship and they popped it.

[karl wasabi]

I wonder how the balloon actually popped ??

Balloon probably popped when it got that high up. Less pressure in the air caused the balloon to expand and burst. I think... Very cool video.

[S14_Kouki]

Next question how much farther did it have till it was actually in space????

[HyperTek]

vid made me dizzy lol

[BustedS13]

leather cell phone holster.

this shit is engineered, homie.

[Sleepy240]

Next question how much farther did it have till it was actually in space????

ALOT, from what I have learned and remember there is no "definite" height at which the atmosphere ends and outer space begins. However it is agreed upon that the Karman Line is pretty much the standard. And that is right around 62 miles high. Just doing a quick conversion the height of the balloon was only about 20 miles. So to answer you question, ALOT higher.

[S14_Kouki]

ALOT, from what I have learned and remember there is no "definite" height at which the atmosphere ends and outer space begins. However it is agreed upon that the Karman Line is pretty much the standard. And that is right around 62 miles high. Just doing a quick conversion the height of the balloon was only about 20 miles. So to answer you question, ALOT higher.

Hell yeah thanks for the info

[Dalton918]

This vid makes me want to:barf:.

[deolio]

should have somehow figured out how to make the camera keep from rotating. would have been much cooler and done a time lapse instead of just cutting to certain parts.

[sleep]

double friggin post

[sleep]

You need to be doing 25,200 miles/hr to leave earth's gravity and enter 'space'

Escape velocity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity)

believe me, if a friggin balloon was capable of doing it, why would nasa spend $1.7 billion dollars on a shuttle?

so technically, that balloon was still on earth.........

[DrftSLowHomIe!!]

^^ hater lol still perty dope vid IMO.