Pics from Weather Balloon- Curvature of the Earth

[Flying Buckeye]

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/ ... 1&mbid=yhp

I know I have seen these pictures somwhere before. Didn't someone from this website post them on here?

[Craig.]

I would love to give this a go.

[Fozzer]

I would love to give this a go.

The Captain of the Jumbo 747 will love you to bits, when it gets sucked into one of his engines, during flight, Craig... ...!

Including your fire-resistant, pre-paid, return address... ...!

Paul...... .... ... ...!

[BFMF]

That's awsome.... 8-)

[Jayhawk Jake]

I posted some from our balloon flights at KU.

I actually discussed this with the guys I work with on high altitude balloon flights...they are more experienced than me and call BS on them only spending $150.  Things like a parachute and balloon would be expensive, they also used a very small balloon, if they used one capable of a decent payload the balloon itself would be over $100.

Really, these kinds of flights aren't difficult at all, it's tracking and retrieving that you run into problems, even writing BASIC code for a camera picture taker isn't hard at all, but programming and outfitting it to send you a signal to track it can be difficult