200 paper planes launched from space, memory cards attached
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I saw one in my home city :D
[QUOTE=Dr.Drop;27696637]......Man, this is the worst idea ever. Even worse than the Mac.[/QUOTE]
Why it was a pretty cool idea, how dare you insult it by calling it worse than a mac.
Pretty sure that's a Dell laptop at 1:05, he should be using a Samsung :v:
I probably won't but I hope I find one, that'd be pretty cool.
[QUOTE=Da Man;27693149]Funny how you say terminal velocity but then demonstrate a clear lack of understanding of what it means by implying the card could actually hurt someone.[/QUOTE]
terminal velocity means it has enuff power 2 terminate some1 duh.
if I find one it will be more exciting than winning the lottery
They need floaties, I bet a crapload of them are at the bottom of the ocean now.
I can only imagine one of the paper planes saying 'ur a faget'
queue Dante.
ITT: people have no idea how the atmosphere and gravity work
[QUOTE=Calasmere;27693856]But 70% of the world is covered in water... goodbye 140 of those planes!
Oh wait, the OP title is a typo. Goodbye 70 of those planes then...[/QUOTE]
Then all the ones that are in fields and stuff that no one will find, at least not any time soon. I will be surprised if they found much more than 10.
[QUOTE=Ehmmett;27693066]Then a card falls out, reaches terminal velocity and goes straight through some poor unlucky fellow.
But really, that part where you could see the curvature of the earth was pretty damn neat.[/QUOTE]
using that logic dropping a feather off the empire state building would kill someone on the ground
Someone post the video of the ballon thing.
I'd love to launch my own atmosphere balloon but the license is thousands of euros...
[QUOTE=Killuah;27728825]I'd love to launch my own atmosphere balloon but the license is thousands of euros...[/QUOTE]
What they don't know won't hurt them.
[QUOTE=Super_Poo;27728858]What they don't know won't hurt them.[/QUOTE]
Until Russia collect it in their giant space junk collection device and bomb your house as a punishment for not acquiring the necessary licenses.
Here is a video of a balloon:[url]http://www.wimp.com/weatherballoon/[/url]
[editline]29th January 2011[/editline]
I checked some forums and apparently private license are free.
[editline]29th January 2011[/editline]
A facepunch balloon would be cool.
Costs would be around 1k € but I can snatch Helium and the GPS tracker from university. That'd cut it by a lot.
I am seriously considering doing this in the semester break.
We could do this with donations.
Every donor would get a place in the video
[QUOTE=Killuah;27729032]Here is a video of a balloon:[url]http://www.wimp.com/weatherballoon/[/url]
[editline]29th January 2011[/editline]
I checked some forums and apparently private license are free.
[editline]29th January 2011[/editline]
A facepunch balloon would be cool.
Costs would be around 1k € but I can snatch Helium and the GPS tracker from university. That'd cut it by a lot.
I am seriously considering doing this in the semester break.
We could do this with donations.
Every donor would get a place in the video[/QUOTE]
I'd donate towards that and I'm sure most of facepunch would if it was official.
wow, 100 [URL="http://www.samsung.com/memorycard"]16GB, 8GB and 4GB Memory cards[/URL] ?
I remember when a 1GB Memory card was lot and quite expensive... :eek:
And I really can't bear the thought of most of them having gone to waste in our planets ozeans or otherwise...
[QUOTE=Xenoyia v2;27729210]I'd donate towards that and I'm sure most of facepunch would if it was official.[/QUOTE]
I'd do it but I have to do some weeks of research before I start off any stupid "lol guys I have an idea" thread.
I'd present a plan, the devices I plan on using and a cost calculation.
And THEN I might make a thread.
[QUOTE=Calasmere;27693856]But 70% of the world is covered in water... goodbye 140 of those planes!
Oh wait, the OP title is a typo. Goodbye 70 of those planes then...[/QUOTE]
Not really. Consider the fact that they were slung down towards the earth's surface from ~38,000 meters. In the video you could [I]see[/I] the curvature of the earth.
As those planes fly down they're going to spread out, covering vast distances before they even get [I]close[/I] to the surface. Also remember that the earth is rotating and those planes are not in geosynchronous orbit with the earth. As the earth rotates plane A is going to be a few kilometers away from point A, and so on and so forth.
The real factor which influences these things is the fact that they're so high up. Once they hit a certain height they'll catch jetstreams and fly over oceans. That's probably how one ended up in the US, and there's likely more behind it.
[QUOTE=Killuah;27729032]Here is a video of a balloon:[url]http://www.wimp.com/weatherballoon/[/url]
[editline]29th January 2011[/editline]
I checked some forums and apparently private license are free.
[editline]29th January 2011[/editline]
A facepunch balloon would be cool.
Costs would be around 1k € but I can snatch Helium and the GPS tracker from university. That'd cut it by a lot.
I am seriously considering doing this in the semester break.
We could do this with donations.
Every donor would get a place in the video[/QUOTE]
I'll donate if you ever do this. Maybe even see if I can fly over and take part in person. We'd be one of, if not the first internet forums to launch a space balloon.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;27733710]Not really. Consider the fact that they were slung down towards the earth's surface from ~38,000 meters. In the video you could [I]see[/I] the curvature of the earth.
As those planes fly down they're going to spread out, covering vast distances before they even get [I]close[/I] to the surface. Also remember that the earth is rotating and those planes are not in geosynchronous orbit with the earth. As the earth rotates plane A is going to be a few kilometers away from point A, and so on and so forth.
The real factor which influences these things is the fact that they're so high up. Once they hit a certain height they'll catch jetstreams and fly over oceans. That's probably how one ended up in the US, and there's likely more behind it.[/QUOTE]
I'n all likelyhood, a few are probably still riding a jetstream.
[QUOTE]Winnipeg, Canada[/QUOTE]
My city?!?! wow, I wish I coulda' found it...
Free paper planes! :buddy:
:smile:
[QUOTE=Bonzai11;27723906]They need floaties, I bet a crapload of them are at the bottom of the ocean now.[/QUOTE]
I believe the paper airplanes are made out of PAPER, good sir.
Paper is buoyant, you know.
Those cards aren't compatible with my camera...
Pretty dam impressive that some landed in the U.S though.
Imagine if it landed on a boat. I bet that would make the finder's day :buddy:
[QUOTE=Big Orca;27743185]I believe the paper airplanes are made out of PAPER, good sir.
Paper is buoyant, you know.[/QUOTE]
Until it becomes saturated.
Nothing landed in my backyard, so I assume one didn't come near where I live.
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