Results for 'weather balloons'
Online
DARPA Challenge: Find 10 Red Weather Balloons, Win $US40,000
12:11AM Danny Allen | To celebrate the Web’s 40th anniversary, DARPA wants to explore social networking’s role in time-critical communication. They will award $US40,000 cash to the first group who finds 10 2.4-metre weather balloons located at fixed locations around the US More »
Science
MIT Students Explain How To Photograph Space For $US150
6:45PM Danny Allen | On September 2, Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh successfully took these images of Earth’s curvature and the blackness of space using only a weather balloon and off-the-shelf components—without complicated hacks. Total cost: $US148. Here’s how they did it. More »
Design
What Is This?
3:46PM Danny Allen | Wait, is NASA making weather balloons shaped like a Rubik’s Cube now? More »
Cameras
Teens Capture Amazing Shots 32Km from Earth’s Surface With a Balloon
3:40AM Mark Wilson | Using a $US77 Nikon Coolpix and a $US60 latex balloon filled with helium, a team of teenage students captured these remarkable shots from 32km above the Earth’s surface. More »
GPS
Priest Takes Off Using Party Balloons, GPS to Find God (Literally)
12:30AM Jesus Diaz | When he was a boy, Father de Carli had the same dream that most kids have: jump off the ground and reach for the sky. But when he grew up, instead of taking flight lessons, he literally did that. He jumped and flew with the help of a thousand party balloons. His first try was a success, travelling 110 km for 4 hours and 15 minutes. His second, however, has probably ended in disaster—after he took off with a GPS that he didn’t know how to use. More »
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