1st HD Camera At The Edge Of Space

[marcelottg]

This sound is a ovni flying around the camera trying not appear

[mscrimger]

Repost the vid with an audio clip by Richard Strauss "Also Sprach Zarathustra."  Epic.

[aFemale1]

what is this annoying sound ?!?! It's shit to listen!!!!

[novouralec]

Что за шляпа?

[ThePowerBomb1]

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[spectro197036]

I love the sound,

[Yallspot12]

Hey !! I can see my house from here :D

[slicceNdicce]

how did it get down?

[paranutaus]

@slicceNdicce The balloons expand beyond their maximum inflation and burst. naturally gravity still has an effect and the camera falls back to earth.

[mrkwldude]

does it not make anyone else feel sick watchin it spin aroundd :S 

[uvgot2seethis]

Edge of space? 100,000 feet? Space begins at 328,000 feet. Not even a third of the way. Way high, yes, but completely misleading to ever claim it's the edge.

[TakeYourProfits]

@uvgot2seethis its people like you why do nothing but sit on your couch that make me sick. youre nothing but a hater. while you sit on your couch getting fatter by the millisecond there are a few select individuals who are doing everything they can to advance the cause of the human race...while you will fall by the wayside of darwinism... you are the dodo bird... @benwl, youre the man....thanks for taking us to the edge of space...and beyond!!!

[PsiStarstormOmega985]

@uvgot2seethis well if our cameras every get there we would need some tungsten.

[fetymann]

...what's that sound?

[TheBeljah]

wauw brilliant you guys

[Sarnarath]

u launch a HD camera into space and forget to put a tracking device on it and leave it on some grass field for a week?

that just retarded.

[skyliner288]

@Sarnarath its on a flight...think about something before you say it idiot

[Sarnarath]

@skyliner288

the camera fell to earth and landed on the grass field.

do i have to be so fucking obvious for you to understand?

[skyliner288]

@Sarnarath looks like your retarded...conversation over!

[Sarnarath]

@skyliner288

conversation started again!

respond to my previous reaction!

[skyliner288]

@Sarnarath look here dutch professional asshole...go bother someone else about your non-sense....fucking retard.

[FlyingBoxHead]

@skyliner288 How bout you both shut the fuck up.Just a suggestion.

[AriqoFlip]

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[Bellantoni]

how much did this project cost you guys?

[deco9987]

Anyone else see the two (possibly three) airplanes???

[Jefferd333]

@deco9987 Yup

[pennjersey83]

What is the point of this floating ball in nothingness

[flyby7a]

what is the altitude a balloon can ascend before bursting?????

[norman4lyf]

@flyby7a

The record altitude of an unmanned balloon is 173,000 feet. Most scientific balloons float to 120-150,000 feet. The highest a weather balloon can go is about 80-115,000 feet.

[RadioActiveMan95]

i wonder if you tie a sting on one of those so that the jet stream wont blow it away :D

[phenixking300]

@RadioActiveMan95 the weight of a string that long would probably stop the balloon from launching

[PhaseDMA]

@phenixking300 And then it would still float nearly 19 miles away since the string would be so long.

[Lukesrad747]

is that a UFO ? haha jks, at least we should be able to see them clearly :0

[RoelKroes]

Excellent video! Well done. What a luck you got that payload back.

[marlonhagen]

Good work man maby next time multi cam but you did give us a plan that we can do thanks from the netherlands

[marlonhagen]

Good work man maby next time multi cam but you did give us a plan that we can do thanks from the netherlands

[skeight976]

that is awesome cant wait to see some one fall from that height.

[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!

[dudeguysproductions]

its so quiet wow lol dur tho i guess

[MTNPANTS]

I can't wait till they have commercial skydiving from this altitude :D

[imask8r]

@MTNPANTS too bad you would die you would freeze to death before reaching that altitude

[norman4lyf]

@imask8r

Of course you would die from the low atmospheric pressure and temperature, but that's if you're not wearing a pressure suit. There has already been a free fall from over 100,000 ft, by Joseph Kittinger back in 1960.

[CadillacL]

amazing.

[joeyfbeats]

I wish i could live there, somehow.

[otofcontroll]

so quiet and peaceful

[bucktheusa]

I've heard guys taking welding gas and filling those large inflatable punch balls and letting them explode with a huge bang when they reach altitude.

Supposedly loud as * and scares the * out of everyone in town!

Wonder if anyone ever posted a video of that....hum, let's see

[sadisth06]

I´m dizzy ...

[mailtopravit]

Nasa is looking for a new job now.

[BonesTheCat]

Mobile phone with GPS on it next time?

[snergs]

can a balloon really reach space?

[dhudson369]

@snergs yes then it pops some ballons nasa have launched were pretty big and expanded bigger than a house before bursting

[oliebol61]

Well the answer is: No, They go about 30 kilometers before they burst

[turfergirl]

wooow...das hecka tite...

[ainit77]

reminds me of the images from joe kittingers jump

[froggycss]

amazing...imagine not hearing that buzzing...would be so peaceful

[TheCrazyFinn]

@froggycss

Yes... Imagine turning off the sound! ;)

[BonesTheCat]

lol

[Gyro911]

Wow with name like gutarrockstar you must know a lot about space lol

[Gyro911]

140 bucks to launch into space compared to billions. What a slap in the face to NASA this is. BTW did this thing actuallly get beyond the atmosphere into space?

[faxepl]

@Gyro911 NASA launched helium balloons before rockets too. Actually they don't reach space as defined by Karman Line (100 km above sea level). And of course a balloon can't lift a space shuttle or parts of International Space Station so they need those billions to build the rockets.

[5979nicholas]

@faxepl

Russians lanch their shuttles with Antonov, the biggest plane on earth =)

[faxepl]

@5979nicholas Actually their "shuttle" Buran was launched only once with Energia booster rocket. An-225 was build to transport Buran orbiter between airfields.

[BlizBob]

No balloon can ever rise out of the athmosphere.

[Gyro911]

True but a balloon can elevate a rocket to this altitude from where it can launch. I should work for nassau as this is common sense

[BlizBob]

Well it had to be a fucking big balloon.

It would have be able to lift up a rocket that has big enough engine and enough fuel to reach escape velocity from earth's gravitational pull.

If it would be that simple that would have been done already.

Think of how big not air balloons are and how small weight the actually lift compared to their size.

[Gyro911]

Im sure it can be done rather then spending tons of rocket fuel to lift it off the ground which is stupid.

[datzfast]

with micro miniaturization of component I'm sure its already being done already

Nasa will no longer send things to space and the Moon and Mars are going to get explored by McDonalds.

[XaqFixx]

@Gyro911 you should work for a city in the Bahamas?

[Gyro911]

No I work in the bermuda triangle

[surf1punk]

@Gyro911 You gonna work for the Bahamas?

[kingsmehul]

i think u r on the top of burj dubai

[jonathanbain14]

lol

[kingsmehul]

where is moon and sun

[hrford]

720p ftw

[garfield749]

very cool :P

[MrSealtee]

Well done!

[theMakeStuffClub]

My club used a HD camera last spring (Kodak zi6) Channel is theMakeStuffClub if you are interested in the contrast between the cameras.

[ljguitar91]

why are the stars not visible?

[Cheesus08]

@ljguitar91

the stars aren't visible because of a special lens the camera needs in order to operate and capture film from that altitude. The lens is impervious to ice and vacuum and is ungodly expensive.

[ljguitar91]

@Cheesus08 ok thanks for the information.

[Sparmi1]

It's a fantastic view at this atitude. Well done and greedings from Germany.

[rod4life123maggie]

wow so you put the cam on a ballon thats sick

[littpleapple]

how do you get the camera back?

[euroclix28]

amazing

[Syclone0044]

Is that the Gulf of Mexico?

[DANNYTHEQUAD]

So the temperatures at that altitude didnt cause any damage to the VadoHD?

[lasse88]

You think they just glued the camera to a piece of string, attached to a weather balloon? Off course they built a housing for it..Doh!

[calfan3]

hi i am a physics student and my class did this. i was in charge of the cameras, and my job is to figure out the pressure up there, based on the size of the balloon. any help?

[DarkFlarePrince]

use a calculator

[calfan3]

oh wow, great help! lol, jk i figured it out.

[dynd]

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[StefanRouach198198]

16,116

[cfsVchris]

This looks alot like florida, is it?

[thedingoateyourrbaby]

I am 14,449 oh yeah

[MultiDogz]

i think i can see my house from here lol hehe

[junka22]

beautiful

[Lemerex1]

Just Awesome

Viewer 14,166

[SamUKest89]

i dont know if the world is immensly massive, or incredibly tiny

[ahmingah]

compared to us its huge compared to the universe its unimmaginably small

[GooseThunderfoot]

@SamUKest89 As Carl Sagan put it, the Earth is a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam. =)

[SamUKest89]

@GooseThunderfoot i like that pale blue dot vid, i like his voice :)

[skaterjay0012]

@SamUKest89 it's incredibly tiny.

[Alex31121234]

@SamUKest89 small as shit man,small as shit

[skyliner288]

@SamUKest89 tiny lol

[mourge101]

13,948

[kalish86]

so there are just few people who comment on the whole who watch it, I am the 13271th.

[fyglymyg]

and i'm 12628th

[SaSanSetter]

im 11,533 :)

[doriano411]

Majestic Mother Earth! I am the viewer #10,997

[pierrelebatteur]

what the buzzer ??

[maux999]

The pression i think? o.o

[Kayzaks]

Wow, nice footage!

[Elow007islowenhaas]

how much of an issue is something like this with the FAA, do you have to let them know what your doing so aircraft can be aware of the balloon, or do they treat something like this like they treat birds - they are out there and we hope we don't hit them, but sometimes it happens...

[iotepmaggoti]

ok totally btester, after the fact that their is lava right below the surface of the earth, what the fuck is wrong with you you are on a damn computer for sake, ooh wait how about you get a shovel and shovel your way to your hollow earth, wait no you have a hollow head.

[aDJmProduction]

if anyone wants to know how to import the h.264 avi into windows movie maker to edit then and save to hd with no quality loss message me.

[MillertimeTV]

I would also like to see the video of it's re-entry.

[meatpie27]

You can see a jet stream!

[holyfirenoob]

hey can you tell me about the space raft how did you get recorded?

[universallance]

Hmmm, where is that over?

[benwl]

It is over Houston, TX

[btester1]

Someone should do this to check out if the hollow earth really exists.

How far a distance could it see.

[F22PilotArcile]

@benwl Sweet, I live a lil bit north of Houston.

[raydvd]

truly awesome vid, thanks for shwoing.

my brother bought a vado just last week and by accident it fell in the river , hr fished it out and it still worked.

This cam is really durable indeed

[AngelusWaters1969]

Awesome video!

[cyberteque]

That is so beautiful!

I keep seeing these balloon camera video's, I'm going to have to try it!

Have you seen the Canadian guys that lofted a little glider?

That was a great project, 3 flights!

[ebcninetytwo]

This is awesome.

[mrfajita]

that is an unbelievably tough camera!

[xXpezcoolXx]

That's just great, but I would have like to see the stars, even though this view is awesome!

[benwl]

It may be able to see stars, I'll have to test that on the ground. The real problem is the auto-exposure...when clouds are in the frame the camera automatically adjusts it's exposure levels so that the clouds do not wash out in the video, which is then at a setting where stars would not show up. However, the Moon was low on the horizon and was visible in some of the other footage from the same balloon flight.

[technoholican]

This project probably cost you a good 10 to 20 grand... why would the $200 camera matter!

would you please present more information on your projects rather than glorifying the greatness of type of HD cameras you use.

Thank you,

a very interested subscriber!

[roidroid]

it seems Ben thinks it's important.

have a think about it

[xXpezcoolXx]

200$ camera? "The VadoHD survived ambient air pressures as low as 1/100th of an atmosphere, temperatures as low as -60C, and even survived being run over by an industrial lawn mower 1 week after falling to Earth."

I think it's awesome!

[anddarrell]

YaY Team . . . Glad you got it back in one piece Ben!  Darrell Anderson - UH Earth and Atmos Science

[vanepico]

that is an absolutely amazing site...

[desiredusername]

Man, I wish we could watch the video of it coming down

[ngfisher]

Cool man.. Funny thing I just went to Ballonsat workshop in Boulder just a couple of weeks ago. You might of heard of it, the SHOT. We didn't have a video camera on our payloads but a digital camera taking some sweet pictures. It a lot of fun for my first time experience.

[CNe7532294]

when was this? Also what is the project's name?

[vitruvian8807]

Because you can see the ground, it doesn't seem so high. But I know I'd be scared to be up that high!

[jrendoso]

so the camera actually fall from the sky ? what if it had hit a human being ????

[ScottKin]

If you'd read the info, you'd learn that it came down via a parachute. The impact it would have if it collided with a moronic idiot who was utterly clueless as to their surroundings would be the equivalent of being hit on the head with an egg.

[johnnygroover]

wow blue sky

I havent seen blue sky in a long time.

[mindfreakloyal92]

omg thats awesome