Long Trail School High Altitude Balloon

[wyattorr820]

Your vid is popular on Addis Ababa

[olbywong717c]

Your vid is popular on Antananarivo

[YouReadMyMind]

Nice job! curious to know what tracking device you used to record altitude and location?

[Sharingonsandninja]

Interesting. Would you happen to know how they made it?

[mb23p]

thats awesome

[mb23p]

how did you get the footage back?

[tunkunrunk]

why not tying a small rocket on the balloon , when it reaches higher altitude , the rocket ignite it engines and lift higher with embedded video camera

[jon10408]

I was just at Longtrail School, then I see this.

[DoctorLoveJuice]

Well done! A+ awarded.

Come and see me after class (preferably with no underwear)

[calzagheisthebest]

@DoctorLoveJuice hahahahaahha doctor love juice you're crazy!

[Matteo42]

you should have used "Space Oddity" as the song.

[7explorer7]

Thats awesome! Even more awesome, in 1962, 2 guys went up with the ballon even a little higher than this! That must be scary.

[shamalaaa]

AT 3:00 u don't see nothing but darkness up there...but to reach actual space, the balloon had to travel another 240,000 ft. From the looks of it, the balloon looks much closer to space. Amazing video!!

[yomamasabanana]

A plane cant even reach 60 000 feet.But a balloon can.That is scary

[swarooptheone]

it depends on the engine of the aircraft

the Sr-71 and the MiG25 easily used to fly in excess of 80,000ft routinely...

and it is said that the MiG-25 once touched 120,000ft :)

[Mamba205]

yomamasabanana: Not true, the famous jet airliner Concorde cruised at 56,000-60,000 feet. Some military fighter jets fly higher.

[timboslayer]

I like that. What cameras do I need to do more of the same? I don't want them to freeze or break if they go too high!

[mr911jyym]

does it matter if the camera breaks? how the hell are u going to find it anyway?

[timboslayer]

Oooh. I think you may have spotted a flaw in my plan! Haha. Erm.

[mr911jyym]

u can always tie a rope to it. haha

[jon10408]

it's a special camera, it wasn't theirs, they borrowed it but I heard they're extremely expensive. And the camera landed in a tree somewhere in New Hampshire.

[crapdice]

thats amazing, how much does it cost do get a highaltitude balloon?

i really wanna do something like this now

[6V92TA]

so where did it land and how far along did it travel?

[6V92TA]

so where did it land and how far along did it travel?

[Volksmanr18]

anyway that was fantastic

[jrb2421]

if you want to calulate the horizion figure out the angle of vision to the horizion over 107,000 at a right angle. I think the Trig function you would use shold be the cosine function

[noober271]

It's actually just a simple application of the Pythagorean theorem. (r_earth + altitude)^2 - r_earth^2 = horizon_distance^2. At 107000 ft, the horizon distance is about 646 km

[jrb2421]

I don't think there is enough info. to use pythagorean thrm. but in order to find it you would at least need two of the sides. I see what you are talking about if the r_earth reffers to the radius.

[noober271]

There's enough info. Didn't you see the equation I provided? If we know the radius of earth (we do) and the altitude (we do), then we can form a right triangle. The hypotenuse is a line from the center of earth to the balloon and the legs are a line from the balloon to the horizon (so its tangent to the horizon) and a line from the center of the earth to that point. By definition a line tangent to a circle (or sphere) is perpendicular to a radius to the point of tangency.

[jrb2421]

well i had never though of that it will work with the pythagoren therom.

[cnossie13]

I found it 107 000ft is about 32,635 meter

[cnossie13]

If u go 40 km higher u are in the space :0

[devilonwizz2]

anyone know how far the horizon is away at 107 000ft?

[cnossie13]

Don't know, but how much km is 107 000 ft?

[cnossie13]

If u r right above NYC, manhattan, at 107 000 ft u can see canada, (if u look to the north) so what is the distance from NYC to canada...?

[shiftyfive666]

hmm...i wonder if parachutes were tied to it... wow this is making me think...

[ZorackSwim420]

ya there were..

[CharlesDingus]

Noctilucent clouds at 2:22!!!

Purple UFO at 1:45

Amazing project!

[TimshelDK]

That purple "UFO" is the sun that disturps the camera

[DrkOne633]

this video is making me airsick. I'm only 3 stories up though.

[SmileyfaceMan80]

how did u get the footage back?

[erikinhawaii]

Hes got a fishing line hooked to it...

[DrkOne633]

that's one fucking long fishing line.

[erikinhawaii]

LOL I make myself laugh...

[dell9494]

idk ur right

[ddm612]

I actually go to the school that did this amazing feat. I came to the school a couple of years after it was done, and I couldn't beleive that a high school could actually do this! Awesome!

[Racebannon1]

Simply Outstanding! these kind of experiments should be done at elementary schools! to inspire young kids! show them that science is cool!

[iaintg0t0ne]

Absolutly agreed!

[napalmpoet420]

@Racebannon1 Would be expensive for all those cameras.

[BGStrickland]

In my opinion, best video on you tube. I love projects like this.

[Antithesis47]

You can see this video and a lot of info on the project at vermontscience. org

There's a map of the flight, pictures, etc...

Several hours of darkness were edited out (it took awhile to find the camera/locator). There was a parachute that took over after the balloon popped, so it took a long time for the balloon to get to the ground.

[TheBalloonProject]

Love the footage? how far did it get?

[lvsupertech]

Balloon Appeared At the top of our Atmosphere! Could see curviture of Earth. Also Darkness of Outer Space even With Sun! Cool! Excellent.

[ddhh1]

How far did it drift and how did you find the camera?

[PSPmaster321]

wow awsome! especially for a school project :O. ive got so many questions in my head. How did the camera not break from that fall? How did they find it? Are there winds at 107,000ft? How long did it take for it to fall? etc. :P

[Act4earth]

Awesome Footage! Is this a high school project?

AMAZING!