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The long Build

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Anyone with a I phone to spare ?
« on: October 26, 2010, 01:18:46 pm »

A group attached an I phone to a large balloon which then went to the edges of space.


 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bS7MgBwlvg
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Re: Anyone with a I phone to spare ?
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2010, 05:55:54 pm »

A group attached an I phone to a large balloon which then went to the edges of space.


 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bS7MgBwlvg

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Re: Anyone with a I phone to spare ?
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2010, 06:43:38 pm »

To get a better signal?

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Re: Anyone with a I phone to spare ?
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2010, 12:42:26 pm »

They were probably on Orange like me then if no signal!  %)
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Re: Anyone with a I phone to spare ?
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2010, 12:58:23 pm »

What I was surprised about was that when the Balloon Burst and the parachute deployed the camera phone only landed 30 miles away from the launch pad. I would have thought with the slipstreams etc it would have been thousands of miles away.  %%
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Re: Anyone with a I phone to spare ?
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2010, 04:25:20 pm »

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I would have thought with the slipstreams etc it would have been thousands of miles away.

 One can but hope.

  Regards Ian.
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Re: Anyone with a I phone to spare ?
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2010, 06:26:56 pm »

one way to get rid of those nasty iphones
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