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Who needs a Space Shuttle? Amazing pictures of Earth captured by one man, a balloon and his camera
Daily Mail ^
| Mar. 25, 2010
Posted on 03/25/2010 7:40:31 PM PDT by nuconvert
The unearthly beauty of this image taken high above the planet would make Nasa proud.
But it didn't need millions of pounds of technology to capture.
Just a little British ingenuity that saw a standard digital camera taped to a helium balloon and floated into the sky.
Space enthusiast Robert Harrison managed to send his home-made contraption 22 miles - or 116,160 feet - above the earth's surface from his back garden.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Hobbies; Science
KEYWORDS: balloon; britain; earth; england; photography
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posted on
03/25/2010 7:40:31 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
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posted on
03/25/2010 7:43:37 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
To: nuconvert
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posted on
03/25/2010 7:44:30 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: nuconvert
Incredble. Move NASA to this guy’s back garden. Tie Sen Bill Nelson - “the astronaut Senator” to one of these guy’s ballons then cut the string.
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posted on
03/25/2010 7:45:38 PM PDT
by
Frantzie
(McCain = Obama's friend McCain called AMERICANS against amnesty - "racists")
To: nuconvert
These pictures are fake. If they were real Rozie O’Donnell cover half the horizon and you’d see the Mao balloons floating over the White House.
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posted on
03/25/2010 7:45:52 PM PDT
by
RavenATB
To: nuconvert
To: nuconvert
The duct tape around the camera-housing is an especially nice touch.
I could be wrong, but I believe that you need a FAA permit or waiver to launch such a balloon here in the US.
I know there are payload restriction, which this probably falls under, but there might be height restrictions as well - not sure.
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posted on
03/25/2010 7:46:39 PM PDT
by
OldDeckHand
(USA - b. July 4, 1776 / d. March 21, 2010)
To: nuconvert
Here's a picture taken from the other side of the balloon:
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posted on
03/25/2010 8:03:39 PM PDT
by
Sloth
(Civil disobedience? I'm afraid only the uncivil kind is going to cut it this time.)
To: OldDeckHand
It’s done very often here in the US. Quite often the balloon is tracked via ham radio. Its pretty routine.
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posted on
03/25/2010 8:22:01 PM PDT
by
eabinga
To: Sloth
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posted on
03/25/2010 8:22:26 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The US will not die with a whimper. It will die with thundering applause from the left.)
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posted on
03/25/2010 8:29:51 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: nuconvert
A helium balloon will not go into space.
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posted on
03/25/2010 8:32:23 PM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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