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1st HD Camera At The Edge Of Space

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Uploaded by on Jun 25, 2009

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We are planning another HD balloon launch to the edge of space in late July / early August. If you are an artist and would like your original or cover song to be our next soundtrack, please reply with a performance of your song through YouTube's video response or send us a link at bwlongmier@gmail.com
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This is a clip of the VadoHD video camera at an altitude between 80,000 ft and 100,000 ft. The camera is attached to the payload of a research weather balloon. The balloon was launched from the lawn of the University of Houston and traveled approximately 20 miles East to Baytown TX before the balloon burst and the payload fell to Earth by parachute.

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. Incidentally we never would have found the payload if it hadn't been run over by this lawn mower. All of the data was intact on the camera and though a lawn mower blade destroyed the LCD screen, the VadoHD still takes great video!

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  • @froggycss

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • @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!!!

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

  • Что за шляпа?

  • RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR­RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR­RRRRRRRRRRRRRR

  • I love the sound,

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

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