 jonathanhall
Male, 30-39, Western US
 20 Posts
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Friday, January 27, 2012 10:30:02 PM
at least use a astronaut minifig, would have been 10 times better. |
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Zymotical
Male, 18-29, Western US
199 Posts
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:43:24 PM
@Eddo_H You notice that dinky weather ballon but not the huge flash of light from 0:28-0:31? Since it is so dim in the second sighting, it must have been originally much closer to the Legos' guy. |
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Dewed
Male, 50-59, Midwest US
1 Posts
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:49:11 PM
This was just on our local news. They said it was a weather balloon. It burst, but a parachute saved it. It came down about 75 miles from where they launched it. But it had a GPS on it, so they could find it. They said it cost about $400. |
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 K3vin
Male, 18-29, Canada
487 Posts
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 2:50:22 PM
The two kids that did this are from a burb not far from me.
check out the story, cost them just under $500 CAD
story here |
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marcus2
Male, 13-17, Europe
678 Posts
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 1:11:37 PM
@Eddo_H
Or a weather balloon? Or the sunlight glinting off a low orbital sattelite? |
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Eddo_H
Male, 18-29, Europe
1 Posts
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:40:06 PM
1:02 ALIEN SPACE ORB! |
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 ledzeppeloyd
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
2197 Posts
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:21:29 AM
hahah look at him go!!! |
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Byfield
Male, 18-29, Europe
382 Posts
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 8:43:00 AM
Not space. I cant stress that enough, its so very far from being in space. this is a weather balloon, not even a high altitude ballon. |
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 panth753
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
8224 Posts
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 8:20:52 AM
I must try this now. |
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 carmium
Female, 50-59, Canada
4273 Posts
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 8:11:09 AM
For an effort by a couple of schoolkids, this is pretty sweet. Recording the curvature of the Earth and black of space is as much as you could hope for with a balloon.
That's all I wanted to point out. Now you Yanks can make more dumb comments about Canada's space program. |
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 thejanitor86
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
63 Posts
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:05:55 AM
@Raicuparta, because it is still spinning with the Earth as it floats up. it stays in a relative position above the launch site. |
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 Raicuparta
Male, 18-29, Europe
137 Posts
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 5:43:14 AM
there are a bunch of other videos like these online, some of them with the full thing and much more stable, its pretty cool to watch. I never understand how they make it not fall in another continent or something. |
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 lukeforv123
Male, 18-29, Western US
909 Posts
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:04:12 AM
thats a big leap for Canada |
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 uber-idiot
Male, 30-39, Europe
14 Posts
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Thursday, January 26, 2012 1:08:41 AM
anybody ever noticed how lego men are just to the wrong side of bored? |
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 xCYBERDYNEx
Male, 18-29, Southern US
4798 Posts
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:44:05 PM
I find these ballon videos really interesting, don't know why. |
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 xelous
Male, 18-29, Western US
2535 Posts
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:21:13 PM
Seems like editing that video on a green screen using movable light source to recreate the sun from some stock footage is a lot harder than filling a balloon up with air and letting it go.
Unnecessarily complex skepticism |
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 korahn
Male, 18-29, Canada
873 Posts
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 9:29:59 PM
@comp_wizard. Yeah, I was curious about that too. On their page, they say "making of video coming soon" or something like that |
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 ryan99
Male, 13-17, Western US
2349 Posts
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:36:00 PM
Absolute genius |
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madmanofhell
Male, 13-17, Canada
41 Posts
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 7:43:50 PM
Uncle Irvin?? |
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 Angelmassb
Male, 18-29, S. America
15474 Posts
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:51:24 PM
UFOS, UFOS everywhere |
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comp_wizard
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
193 Posts
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:40:15 PM
I can see two plausible ways of making a video like this. You can either launch your lego and camera in a weather balloon, or you can just use a blue screen and a moving light source. Anyone care to guess which method was employed here? |
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 5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
17464 Posts
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:12:20 PM
Pigs... In... SPAAAACE!
Hey, IAB must be doing something right, all the postings today have 3+ ratings, that's good eh? Well, all but 3 do. |
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mar95789
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
188 Posts
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:10:00 PM
hrm |
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 Fatninja01
Male, 18-29, Australia
23998 Posts
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 5:02:42 PM
Thats awesome.. so simple yet so very very cool. So now we know what it will look like to be an astronaut. |
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 Cajun247
Male, 18-29, Southern US
9510 Posts
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:53:13 PM
As an American who has seen many videos like this I'M NOT IMPRESSED! |
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