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[jag9998]

Everytime I see these launches, I imagine myself holding on to the balloon for dear life. Scary O_o

[Shadowpillar]

what song is that?

[danschaoticmind]

Important lessons learned:

1. Chips burst at 15k feet,

2. The propogation of sound changed exponentially every thousand feet due to atmospheric density.

3.Mystery red fluid was boiling at 70k feet.

4. Red balloons pop at 56k feet.

5. Yellow balloons pop at 60K feet.

Findings:

Yellow balloons are certainly superior.

[wayne205stevens]

I did'nt like that sound after the ballon burst at the end is sounded like people screaming for their lives! ahhhhhh freaky!

But great footage anyway! :)

[rfs990]

very good.

Salutations from Spain.

[arand4]

you can barely hear de beeb when its at 85.000 ft because its nearly space and in space you can't hear sounds because there is no material, like (H2O) for example, that lets the sound wave travel. thats cool!

[Destro7000]

yeah but dude we have a shitload of atmosphere. You'd have to get well away from Earth before you stop registering air.

it'd be a lot harder for sound to travel up there though, definitely :)

[jayjasonjay]

That was cool!

[tonbonthemon]

SHIT'S FUCKING INSANE

[lukeslandspeeder]

the ballon needs to be huge so it can stretch more for higher goals. 100k!

[lukeslandspeeder]

buzzer need a timer dam. cool vid. notice how the buzzer slows down?. thinner air.

[FukinNamesTaken]

wow just wow

i loved the way how you used visual and audio to ahow how the pressure of high altitude can affect everyday items

i loved it and i would love to do it myslef

[EinkOLED]

It seems very odd that in your data collected, the temperature decreases up untill 50,000ft where it begins to rise. Does temperature rise in decreasing humidity and air pressure? Or does cosmic radiation or distance to the ozone layer play a role in this?

The beeping noise, is this to determine the effect a vacuum has on sound, like the vacuum chamber bell experiment?

Would love the opportunity to do this.

[tinyswatteam]

LOL the chips...

[KungFuBlitzKrieg]

I thought this would be lame, but this is actually an amazing video!!! Awesome show! Good job!

[perricida]

How did you get your footage and pics back to you?

[frizspin175]

what does the beeping sound indicate?

[happyidiottalk]

My guess is that its an experiment to discover how the tone changes in relation to altitude.

[5up3r1337gring0]

Actually, we know that sound needs air to travel, the higher you go, the less air, hence the reson why the sound gets harder to hear.

[sciencoking]

oh and what´s the red stuff in the glass cylinder?

[sciencoking]

OMG this is wonderful!

can I do this too?

what did you use for making photos and vids, i mean, a normal camera won´t survive that fall...

[sigmasquadleader]

The fall almost seems like a Stanley Kubrick sequence... Especially the way the bag stayed nearly centered the whole time.

And the screeching doesn't help, ha ha.

[monypril]

you could see the space and the atmosphere at 50,000 feet i wanna do that too.

[CivilHuman]

Wow amazing stuff!!!

It left wondering some question's, And if What I think happened happened that Nutz man You Crazy.

1. So you floated all the way to 85,000 feet on a balloon ?

2. What did you use a parachute to land?

3. When the balloon popped it looked like it got very chaotic up there, Were you like doing flips and falling chaotically?

Ones that balloon popped it just looked very scary, all the noises and the camera was going crazy.

It would be a awesome but terrifying ! wow !

[DracoReincarnated]

It was unmanned.

[lazzzy]

stupid balloon covered the marshmallows

[NearSpace]

That happens. It's just another reason to launch again.

Onwards and Upwards

[NearSpace]

Perhaps more important is the lower air pressure. As we approach a vacuum, sound has a greater difficulty being transmitted.

[buggsubique]

I guess the buzzer circuit (crystal or capacitor) was affected by the temperature, which increased the period of the buzz as it ascended?

[NearSpace]

The red vial was a test to see if we could see boiling in near space. However, the shaking is too great to see that kind of detail.

The beeper is a locating beacon. Some times we recover in fields where the near spacecraft can't be seen.

[TandEeesDad]

Very interestng....thanks for posting. I have two questions.

1. What is the small container of red liquid for?

2. What is the beeping tone for?

[Wcoltd]

I was wondering if it was possible to mount a amature rocket on to one of those things, have it launch at like 12 miles might give it the extra altitude it needs to reach the 62 mile mark.

[jumpreach]

Oh yeah......

at 85.000 feet the pressure is really very high!!!!! ;-) lol

[gccengineering1996]

That video is so interesting that I cannot believe it made it up there over 85000 feet. I guess the pressure was very high that the balloon popped.

[jayslovak]

I wonder whether the camera survived the fall. Could anybody clarify?

[NearSpace]

Everythings on a parachute. As the capsules get lower the parachute becomes more effective. The touchdown s quite gentle.

[techrat1]

Right on, this is so much better than the coke+mentos rockets... This looks like a fun hobby... I should mention Nuts & volts mag brought me here (one of my favorite publications)

[randyfromm]

The video is really interesting. Saw this in Nuts and Volts as well.

[jerryma]

hey this is so cool! I've got the n&v article, too. this would be so coolto do! keep having fun with life!

[springboro45342]

great experiment..wish I would have done it though.