Near Space Research high altitude balloon flight, June 16, 2010

[gymkhanadog]

You managed to hit 90k? Wow! How big was the balloon? How much helium did you use? I have bad, bad ideas swimming around in my head for when I actually get to start experimenting with near space stuff. Aiming for 200k feet! 90k is my "entry" barrier to figure out if it's even doable.

[Darko2625]

Near space? This is SPACE if you ask me.

[Agauaellos]

Even if it's fake none of you is paying for his few hundred dollar mission.. No one's even forcing you to watch it. When NASA burns all your tax money and doesn't even tell you all they know you're happy.

[electronicdawg]

stop it your making me dizzy, and it is fake ! hes just spinning it like Google earth

[electronicdawg]

stop it your making me dizzy

[carbonrocket]

Very nice image of the balloon burst, I say after looking at lots of other experiments and the way the balloons burst and the shredding effect. Its a true image. Like said if someone would go to the trouble of makiking a CGI fake film it would be more cost effective to do this real life

[laxinitup62]

thats more like 300,000 feet



[poool1981]

fake fake fake fake

[AESOPPOSEA1]

This is something that belongs on PlayStation.

[AESOPPOSEA1]

Obviously a computer animated fake.

[nearspaceresearch]

@AESOPPOSEA1

If it were computer animated, the resolution would be much better. Since the "real thing" only costs a few hundred dollars per flight, computer animation would probably cost more too! Look at all of the other similar videos out there--none of them are fake.

[boyercam]

@AESOPPOSEA1 Keep an open mind. Anything is possible. Well when I say anything...

[nearspaceresearch]

It isn't fake, but the wide angle lens on our camera does exaggerate the earth's curvature.

[dumbtreeclimber]

@nearspaceresearch

Cool video! I love seeing weather balloons burst at altitude.

[Mr070363]

Even the "balloon burst" is fake.

[dumbtreeclimber]

@Mr070363

This footage is actually real, as well as every other high-altitude balloon video on YouTube. The curvature is highly exaggerated by the wide-angle (fisheye) lens. Notice how at the end of the video the curve of the Earth becomes concave? That is due to the fisheye lens. I suggest you learn a bit about photography and weather balloons before labeling this as "fake".

[intigfx]

@Mr070363 You're fake.

[Mr070363]

This video is fake. You can't see that much of the earth's curvature at 90,000 feet.