[TDDance234]

A father and son from Brooklyn, New York sent an iPhone into the stratosphere a few weeks ago to record a video of the earth's curvature.

The two spent eight months researching and testing their homemade craft, which was made of a weather balloon and a styrofoam case for the iPhone, before launching in Newburgh, NY.

The phone apparently braved winds of 100 miles-per-hour and temperatures as cold as 60 below zero (the iPhone was smartly packed with hand warmers).

The recorded video shows the phone reaching a height of 100,000 feet before the balloon burst, plummeting the contraption back to earth, where it landed 30 miles from the launch point, in a tree, where the father and son found it in the dark because of the iPhone's LED light.

Video on the website below of what the iPhone captured. Pretty cool.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/1 ... 65369.html

[rueful]

i posted this last week with the video

http://www.flamefans.com/forums/viewtop ... 17&t=16373

[From the class of 09]

Yeah no double post. We don't do that here. Especially about LU related conference realignment.

[El Scorcho]

Take it over to rueful's thread.