1337arts Icarus Project TimeLapse Video (Max Altitude: 93,000 ft)

[fiskerlatigo]

what the hell was that at 2:48

[GamingLord007]

Great Video! Next time point the camera towards earth instead of Mars

[biggs1j]

Is it possible to download the high-res images (which will be credited to Oliver Yeh, Justin Lee, Eric Newton, and 1337arts.com)? The MIT link does not seem to be active. 

[ersalanni]

Hello, Great video! I am planning of doing this in the next couple of weeks but I live close to the sea and I am scared that it will drop into the sea. I was wondering how far away it landed away from the take of point, what camera you used, and the gps tracker?

[daisyvocal]

Wow its soooo wonderful!!

[SuperTonyscott]

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[SuperTonyscott]

hmmmm.... balloon launch over donegal :-p

[SuperTonyscott]

hmmmm.... ballon launch over donegal :-p

[cpence84]

very, very cool!

[klifpollard]

This video goes well with the song Circulation by Thurston Moore.

[padlockd]

Next time use a fisheye! Also maybe put the setup in a sphere or cylinder and make it evenly balanced so it doesn't spin so much.

[MarkBuse]

too much spin per frame. camera mounted on suspended gyro would have yielded more coherent time-lapse effect

[tpain2345]

the balloon popped at 2:47

[sKR3Wthepigz]

exactly 10x as many likes as dislikes.

[emahoable]

Graet !!! So simple and so important!!

[piepeep90]

wut

[Replayability]

This video is useless. What a waste of a balloon ride. Like andrewh23 said, the father and son video was much better.

[rinceart]

@Replayability The "father and son" spent nearly a $1000 dollars on their project. These guys spent less than $150, and that is pretty incredible!

[andrewh23]

The video from the father and son looks a hell of a lot better

[andrewh23]

THe video from the father and son looks a hell of a lot better

[LewisHamilton1991]

Umm Pointless

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[dmjokinen]

terrible vid

[rdhinakar]

I don't find that file you mentioned on the description on that link you provided.

[TanksSkool]

3:23 my office!

[gspahr]

I strongly recommend to watch this video while playing the Carl Sagan's Cosmos' theme...

[lakaigne]

the end was almost cool...

[lucksku]

1:23 my house!

[randomnick20]

and if the camera felt on somebodys head? :|

[DieCyk]

@ 2:48 tthe ballon was destroyed and the cam fall down to earth...

[shamthemanSMBMG]

lol at 2:48 i was like zomg its a alien

[SuperIkoHam]

ugh over exposure

[jtristancho]

Wow

[simonnava]

Nice job! go to our profile to see STRATOS I being launched in South Florida! As you know Florida is surrounded by ocean water. It was truly a challenge. You can go to my profile or type STRATOS BALLOON on You Tube.

Enjoy!

[donalduck815]

So, is Elvis Alive?

[spicoli17]

2:48 WTF?

[robomanus]

this is incredible!!!

[BonesTheCat]

Awesome.

[Drag0nfoxx]

Why didn't you point the camera downwards?

[Sparta257]

Because Icarus flew toward the sun, and I wouldn't imagine he spent that beautiful time staring at the ground. It's meant more as a hopeful/symbolic gesture--flying upward into the heavens, and leaving behind Earth, without looking back.

[mk2v8supra]

@Drag0nfoxx Altitude sickness

[ZenonDorinPower]

@Drag0nfoxx Haha, if only you could the needed trigonometrical calculations...

[Drag0nfoxx]

@ZenonDorinPower - Haha, what?

[djairborne2006]

@Drag0nfoxx You wouldn't see the curvature of the Earth if you did that.

[rinceart]

@Drag0nfoxx Because then they might as well just used Google Earth... :) This way you could see the curvature of the Earth and have a more space-like experience.

[turkeyburgers]

Bragh you need some music with this G. Maybe sum little john or perhaps NIN?

[breathingworld]

Wow

[whatthebutts]

Amazing job! Inspiring for sure. With a little work aligning the photos the video would flow a lot better though

[xarisGR21]

very nice work!!!

[chickadlon]

mentida

[michelle011688]

ok youtube, seriously CUT OUT ALL THE POPUP AD CRAP!!! jesus...

[krankiev]

firefox + adblock plus = win

[rAd8808]

or Opera/Chrome + BFilter

[dubconor]

@krankiev blocks the little add's at the bottom?

[PNjd109]

@krankiev but I don't like firefox

[CFrostyTheSnowman]

If we can do this with 150$ then someone please remind me why were flushing all this bailout money down the toilet?

[Pyroscopy]

two words...pumpkins

[pawppy]

very very cool. what are the black screens @ 2:48?

[CFrostyTheSnowman]

It pointed at space.

[Futchy]

@pawppy space...

[disclosure12]

wow! great work respect! i read this in a sience-magazine. i will try this too!

greetings from germany!

[moonliteforest]

did this all happen in a day??

[Seaprimate]

for a record breaking first-time tight-budget launch to near space, I think the pictures are perfect. better than they could have hoped for. Its like saying to the Wright brothers, "Nice flight and all, but there's not even an instrument panel on that plane."

I'm sure whatever they decide to do in future flights, it will be better and more economical than any of the ideas you guys come up with. lol

[gleeper]

I think at 2:48 the balloon bursts.

[ompenarnie]

What's going on at 2:48?

[nihonam]

Интересно, а как камеру обнаружили? Место падения. Или там был маячок? )))

[32167BD]

Balloon Experiments with Amateur Radio

BEAR-4

[dreemLight]

y'all could use a cool soundtrack

[kevizzle1220]

you couldn't have used one more string?

[PaulBrittell]

I find this video knowledgeable. I think that they are smart and have a great future in front of them.

What I don't like about the comments from "natureboy84 and wdp11683" is their crude remarks they wrote. Kinda makes me fell like I'm on AOL. If they have nothing nice to say then maybe they should SHUT UP. They must be young, and apparently not well educated....

[joementum5]

falcon ftw

[9DragonMaster]

if you want to be awe inspired look up the U2 spy plane, theres a documentary on it with that english dude that test drives fancy or high powered vehicles.

[tmbbcck]

nice job guys

[ProJanitor]

THIS VIDEO IS A Piece of shit

[wdp11683]

two MITs students tied a camera with a gps phone to a balloon, which floated all the way into space and took pics every 30 secs

[leefctr]

To those of you who are not educated enough to grasp the reality of what is being done here. Imagine the Federal Government pulling off this project at a close to a billion (or maybe 2) dollars and some MIT students did it for $150. They took pictures of 'near space' Check out the photo at 2:07 minutes and again at 2:12 minutes. These pictures show something the government wants us to believe is unattainable to the average person. They just proved them wrong!

[natureboy84]

This is so fake. It looks like cheap animation.

[wdp11683]

you're a fucking idiot, this was all over the news awhile ago

[natureboy84]

You're a fucking douchebag. I could care less if it was on the news. They could have at least made it look real.

[natureboy84]

Seriously this video is fucking GARBAGE!!

[crumpetthestrumpet]

its time lapse, you dumbass

[natureboy84]

Yeah I'll give you a time lapse fuckface...right in ur asshole.

[stixs0000]

So, does anyone want to explain what this is for an idiot like me who just clicked on this video because it was featured???

[fyglymyg]

well try sending your camera (making pictures oneby one) at an altitude of 93,000ft then grab it and make a video. you'll even get featured if you beat 93,000 ^^

[FWCiwatchvideos]

yeah same here a bit confused at the moment...

[WhichDoctor1]

FWCiwatchvideos- Some students sent a time laps camera to the edge of space and back again using nothing but stuff they bought in shops and off ebay.

[Seaprimate]

if you haven't figured it out yet (since your post is a month old), two MIT students sent a camera into the upper stratosphere, which is like the edge of space, and snapped pictures of the curvature of the earth. It even looks dark, though its broad daylight.

The concept isn't new, but what is new is that they did it for under $150 using a weather balloon and simple household items.

[aznleeboy18]

Great ! This is so inspiring to see our eaProxy-Con

[CiphersSon]

sweet

[Cthrilla]

this is silly I was doing this as a kid.. how boring. put it into orbit then put it on youtube.

[arunrao86]

Awesome

[Richard37280]

Ambitious, Inspiring project--the sort of thing I dreamed of doing as a teen. However, I think Oliver should do it again with the camera angle pointed lower so that one can see the earth more. As it is, all we can really see is the flashing blue and black edge of the atmosphere and a tiny horizon (and this is largely covered by YouTube's annoying advertised right on top of the viewing screen). When I viewed it video in full screen more, however, I could see a bit more of the horizon.

[castout85]

freeze frame at 2:49 shows a good view looking down

[RoelandGeys]

Nicely done but the camera is a bit too high. Too much sky and too less earth...

[dengus17]

Ничерта не видать :-)

[S4kit4]

cool

[shitkid77]

this video sucked cant see any aliens

[Cthrilla]

LOL

[latte123]

Heh.... at the end, it looks like a bra-strap. "The camera was attached to the balloon using a bra-strap...." ;)

[SulimanAzz]

wow amazing inspireing

[davidmartin7777]

unwatchable video.

That's what you get for $150.

[ignoblius]

There should be a control on the video player that lets the viewer step the video, forward or backward, one frame at a time.

[panosZ1000]

klain mine re me tis moufes....malakies

[MrPolonium]

здесь 4,5 часа ужатые в 3,5 минуты. камера - Canon Vixia HF S11

[Stan8630]

блин, быстро слишком, нада бы помедленнее

Sorry for my English, it's machine translate :

Very quickly, it is possible more slowly?

[celbertin]

What is the brand / model of the camera? it fell from the edge of the atmosphere and kept taking pictures after landing!

[michaz1961]

Parachute and flamingo box

[infybard]

а помедленнеее???

[slavateh]

Сделайте сцуко нормальный ролик без перемотки!

[brendanminto]

very cool stuff, this is the sort of thing teachers should be doing with high school students (probably not this advanced though)

[JudyWasAPunk]

Read about this last week, looks really cool, but what would have happened it it landed on someone, lol, seems a wee bit dangerous

[rebrab001]

What about a couple of gyroscopes to keep the camera stable?

[Melidian1]

So at 2:48 into this clip, I guess that is the weather balloon exploding and then this contraption begins its descent back to earth. This was a pretty cool thing Oliver and his friend did.

[redplanetdunes]

What happens at 2:47?

[thompson11285]

The weather balloon pops and the thing starts descending.

[1SB1]

balloon pops

[4igirin]

плохо, что камера не стабилизирована

[panosZ1000]

this isn't real. It seems to be fake, especially the last pics with the sun and the black sky...hahaha..it was fun but is not professional job.... good try

[mswench]

lol obviously it's real. it's not like they'd get their own website and get on CNN for photoshopping some pictures of the ocean. any idiot can do that. these kids are seriously talented and know what they're doing. how about you try actually researching something before you criticize it, seeing as you're wrong.

[Anzer666]

obviously youre fucking retarded.

[UVClay]

Teach me your wisdom, oh amazing photoshop detector.

[cristianomferreira]

the sky is black because the camera is on the edge of atmosphere...

[thecripplernz]

why didnt you put the camera facing out the bottom ? so we could see something

[angelcar22]

Because the point was to take pictures of teh edge of space. That's not at the bottom...

[UVClay]

It cost $150 to put the entire rig together. Do it yourself and make it better than they did and make us all marvel at your awesome.

[tjk13b]

i cant wait to see the rocket one!

[TheSuperProfessional]

Oh man... I seriously am going to try this ! I just need to get supplies first...

[babel17x]

Joe, eat your heart out. Those two will be working for NASA before they graduate.

[joe1977poland]

babel, you wanna bet $1k that I will complete a similar project and get my balloon with camera on 93,000ft??

just let me know -- anytime, anywhere!!

dont need to be a rocket engineer for that; other than that thank God no airplane "found" this thing on its way...

[Blacksun1942]

You must be joking... All they did was put a camera in a styrofoam box and attach it to a weather balloon.....

[krazi58]

so? you never thought of that

[iglooo101]

Or have their own company.

[walmerino]

Congratulations to the new American space agency. I´d bet my money on that!!!

[Caimbul]

What is that grey thing @2:48 in the upper corner? piece of popped balloon?

[robbiemoore2002]

at 2:47 / 48sec into the flight is that the balloon popping ?

[tarynmcquinn]

Wow, that is so cool!

[dorraj6]

thats fucking awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

[pumpkinhead1977]

Would be awesome to see footage from a small video camera! Great job though!

[jshearer3]

how did u get the camera down? without crashing into the ground and breaking everything? i figure a parachute would be too heavy ( seeing how it has to be under 4pds)

[starscream1203]

NASA will drop all their glasses. $150 bet million dollar project that a stunning achievement. Superior Jobs.

[joe1977poland]

are you serious? you comparing a project of putting a 10 pound camera on the freefly baloon to putting a space shuttle on the orbit, in a certain point in the space?

[ktmbikerider]

i saw a UFO and a freaky alien dude

[Iqy2004]

Pretty cool work guys and even more amazing on the budget you had!

Keep up the good work :-)

[manlyinternet]

kool buget science is great do some more plz!

[xraytech]

Sorry to say, a San Jose, California Pool Guy did the same thing and his images pwn all your images. I'd post the link but you know how YouTube is about that. Google "san jose pool guy space images"

[rohbit]

I think the main difference here is that while that guy did it for $2500, these MIT students did all this all for $150.

[avster95]

who needs NASA now? :)

[rujoking99]

2:46 - Camera divides by zero. OH SH-----

[chaiTV]

Good job guys... but why is this a "video response" to that joker who keeps repeating "into space for $150" over and over??!!

[zionchan88]

Pretty Cool man, Well done wow so cheap as well! Great Job!

[hegor]

Awesome Work! Please take your frugal creative science skills to NASA and get them back on the right track.

[joe1977poland]

Sojouner - then again how do we know the engine would not blew up and made airplane to crash??

[theGrandDuchy]

nice just next time aim the camera at the ground, will be more interesting pictures..

k

[CuriousGeorge53142]

2:49 best shot! I think ET popped the balloon.

[joe1977poland]

Sojouner - thank you for your response. So I guess there was no thread to humans life if this hit the plane. thank you.

[Epicon3]

Can anyone identify that piece of space trash at 2:48 ?

I don't see any solar panels, so it's a negative on the Chandra or GP-B.

[patsaretherealchumps]

Looks like the knot from a balloon.

[Herebegiantclams]

I would guess that it's the balloon popping. 93,000 ft is only 17 miles. satellites orbit at 250 miles minimum that's 1,320,000 ft.

[joe1977poland]

I am a frequent flyer. can somebody reasure me that if this would "hit" my plane and lets say suck up by a jet engine with this electronic video device attached to it -- nothing would have happened!!

thank you!

[Sojouner]

if it was sucked up an engine, it would most likely disable the said engine of any commercial jet liner. If it did though, the other 3 engines on the plane would take over the required thrust of the plane to keep it at cruising altitude, and, depending on how far you have left on your flight, you might still even make it to your destination, most likely delayed, however :P

[SupaChard89]

Did it hit a satellite or something?

[Herebegiantclams]

No the low air pressure would make the balloon pop.

[SupaChard89]

Then what's that white object in the pictures when the background's black at 2:48?

[Herebegiantclams]

SupaChard89 - It's the balloon popping so to the low air pressure,

[opplevelse]

Looks like the bottom of the balloon, where it was tied

[iomega]

way to go!!!!

[BethBraTeaser]

Fantastic! What a brilliant thing to do. Thanks for sharing this.

[infolodecharts]

Bravo gentlemen, I did this sort of thing with multistage rockets years ago but no where the quality of images or the economy of the project.

Keep being ingenious, this world needs minds like yours.

[rondionne]

You guys rock!!!!!!!!

[darkeel]

It was all done in a studio etc

[nairdap]

2:48 theres a alien

[01134hello]

now i bet those boys at MIT who laughed at their ideas are regretting their butts off now...

[67sylv]

Brilliant job guys.

[ahaveland]

Congratulations for taking the initiative!

However, next time put fins on the box to help damp the rotation and either make sure that the rope has no residual torsion or use more than one to connect to the balloon. Perhaps a couple of gyroscopes could help, but they are extra cost and weight.

To process the video, use virtualdub with the deshaker plugin and it should do a good job of smoothing as long as there is enough info in the images to key on and the motion is not too severe.

[awesomepossumm]

2:51 is amazing

[GameJuiceDrink]

Awesome! Congratulations!