12th man goes to space

[WizardHawk]

 

[Podunkparte]

Sound may not travel in space, but Sunday night they're gonna hear us on Mars!

 

[RegentDenali]

The 12th man has The Right Stuff.

 

[Mr. Tacoma]

Wonder where they launched it from. That sure doesn't look like western WA.

 

[Mr. Tacoma]

Figured it out. Moses Lake.

 

[Doublejive]

That's kool,,,,

 

[WizardHawk]

It's amazing how easy and relatively inexpensive it is now to launch something light up to the edge of space and back down with full camera coverage by any average joe.

How much would it cost to launch harblah up there and leave him?

 

[Tech_God]

How much would it cost to launch harblah up there and leave him?

Personally, I would have no problem with Harbaugh coming back to Earth AFTER the balloon pops at 60K above sea level. It would like watching Wile E Coyote falling in a Road Runner cartoon. :rollseyes:

 

[NinerSickness]

That seems impossibly weird to me that it fell to the earth within driving distance of where they launched it. But I don't have a degree in physics.

 

[RegentDenali]

That seems impossibly weird to me that it fell to the earth within driving distance of where they launched it. But I don't have a degree in physics.

It assented fast from the size of the balloon and low weight. 50 miles is still pretty far.

It's really amazing what people are doing with GoPro cameras including putting them on small drones and taking HD movies at low levels over oceans, waterfalls, etc...

 

[Screamin12th]

That seems impossibly weird to me that it fell to the earth within driving distance of where they launched it. But I don't have a degree in physics.

Ill give you a little lesson, The Troposphere ( clouds weather level ) and the stratosphere ( edge of space ) travel in different directions. As in one could be blowing east then higher up the Stratosphere is blowing west. Also the Air is much more Calm in the Stratosphere and with out it the winds at sea level would be 100-200 mph all the time caused by convection. Did you not go to school?

Learn something new every day.

 

[AceKeptic]

Ill give you a little lesson, The Troposphere ( clouds weather level ) and the stratosphere ( edge of space ) travel in different directions. As in one could be blowing east then higher up the Stratosphere is blowing west. Also the Air is much more Calm in the Stratosphere and with out it the winds at sea level would be 100-200 mph all the time caused by convection. Did you not go to school?

Learn something new every day.

And knowing is half the battle.