First Hamburger In 'Space' - Polidicks

[quote] [quote] [IMG]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/850613/thumbs/s-FIRST-HAMBURGER-IN-SPACE-large.jpg?4[/IMG] ================================================== ========== A group of friends from Harvard University sent a hamburger into the stratosphere. [/quote] For reasons that aren't immediately clear, a team of five friends from Harvard University sent a hamburger into space in late October. They called their stunt "Operation Skyfall." The hamburger was purchased from B.good, a local restaurant. It was left to age for a few days and then covered with a layer of spray-on varnish to better withstand winds on its journey through the upper atmosphere. The sandwich was mounted onto an apparatus with a GoPro camera and a GPS, which was then attached to a helium ballon, according to the video's YouTube description. As seen in the video, the hamburger rose to an altitude of 30,000 meters (about 98,425) feet before the balloon popped and sent it and its rigging spiraling dramatically downward. The team recovered the camera days later in some woods north of Boston, about 130 miles from its launch site in Sturbridge, Mass. The rig landed in a tree, and the team tried unsuccessfully to shoot it down with a bow and arrow. Eventually, a storm knocked the camera out of the tree, and the video was recovered. This isn't the first time that footage of an object sent into space in a weather balloon has gone viral. In February, an incoming MIT student sent the tube that her acceptance letter arrived in into space using a similar setup. In January, a Canadian teenager sent a Lego man into the stratosphere, achieving an altitude of about 80,000 feet. ================================================== ========== Source: [URL]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/first-hamburger-in-space-harvard-operation-skyfall-video_n_2084102.html[/URL] [/quote] [video=youtube;nRkQE0I4NZw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRkQE0I4NZw[/video]

Waste of a Hamburger but it's in the name of "Science because we can" so fuck it.

that hamburger looks likes shit

I can just imagine how good it would look on your cv: "I was part of the team who put the very first hamburger in space!"

[QUOTE=MrLeon;38380396]that hamburger looks likes shit[/QUOTE] [quote]It was left to age for a few days and then covered with a layer of spray-on varnish[/quote] Really doesn't sound appetising.. :v:

[quote]The rig landed in a tree, and the team tried unsuccessfully to shoot it down with a bow and arrow.[/quote] Y'know, call me silly, but my first instinct for retrieving something thats stuck up a tree is to climb the tree, rather than get a bow and arrow and shoot it.

Strictly speaking it's not a space burger as it's still well within our atmosphere, just a High altitude burger maybe?

one small bite for man one giant chomp for mcdonalds

Technically this is more a "first hamburger EVA", as they've had hamburgers on the ISS before :v:

We've done it. We finally did it. Success.

"Unidentified Flying Object reported crashing to Earth. First on the scene describe the craft as small, unmanned and with smooth buns."

Maybe they wanted to study the effects of degredation on food in space?

[QUOTE=RayvenQ;38380417]Y'know, call me silly, but my first instinct for retrieving something thats stuck up a tree is to climb the tree, rather than get a bow and arrow and shoot it.[/QUOTE] Yes I too climb 100ft trees.

[QUOTE=RayvenQ;38380417]Y'know, call me silly, but my first instinct for retrieving something thats stuck up a tree is to climb the tree, rather than get a bow and arrow and shoot it.[/QUOTE] I think that was probably my favorite part of the article because of how bizarre it sounded.

[QUOTE=1239the;38380549]Maybe they wanted to study the effects of degredation on food in space?[/QUOTE] no they just thought of it when they were high

Reminds me of the spaceship, the lego one someone sent up

One small step for ham, one big step for hamkind.

Imagine the advertising that little restaurant will now get. "B.good Burgers! They're out of this world!"

Now we need a fastfood which will delivery food by shooting it down to earth from a kitchen on LEO.

So it wasn't in space?

[QUOTE=Falubii;38382051]So it wasn't in space?[/QUOTE] We [I]are in space[/I]. There is no exact way to tell something is or isn't in already "in space". Usually the definition is "outside of atmosphere" but that's a bit weird definition, because then, for example ISS technically isn't in space (they still orbit through extremely thin layers of our atmosphere). I myself would say "it was already on edge between our atmosphere and free space", and while it's obviously not precise, saying "it was pretty fucking high" just doesn't say it for me.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;38382030]Now we need a fastfood which will delivery food by shooting it down to earth from a kitchen on LEO.[/QUOTE] kinetic sub-orbital fastfood delivery. gets cooked on the entry into our atmosphere

Thanks for the delicious hamburger :dance:

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;38382104]We [I]are in space[/I]. There is no exact way to tell something is or isn't in already "in space". Usually the definition is "outside of atmosphere" but that's a bit weird definition, because then, for example ISS technically isn't in space (they still orbit through extremely thin layers of our atmosphere). I myself would say "it was already on edge between our atmosphere and free space", and while it's obviously not precise, saying "it was pretty fucking high" just doesn't say it for me.[/QUOTE] The Kármán line (100km) is usually used to define a boundary between being on Earth and being in space (Or more correctly, not on planet Earth)

pffffff get on my level [img]http://i.imgur.com/025sI.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=MrLeon;38380396]that hamburger looks likes shit[/QUOTE] As most of us would if we were shot into the outer part of the atmosphere unprotected :v:

and we sent a pizza [video=youtube;C0Db1gPzW1A]www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Db1gPzW1A[/video]

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;38382104]We [I]are in space[/I]. There is no exact way to tell something is or isn't in already "in space". Usually the definition is "outside of atmosphere" but that's a bit weird definition, because then, for example ISS technically isn't in space (they still orbit through extremely thin layers of our atmosphere). I myself would say "it was already on edge between our atmosphere and free space", and while it's obviously not precise, saying "it was pretty fucking high" just doesn't say it for me.[/QUOTE] Yeah thanks I'm aware. Most people mean beyond Earth's atmosphere.

I'm going to make it a life ambition to send the first ever inflatable sex doll into space.

Everything is being sent into space nowadays.