Tuesday, October 26, 2010

A Balloon with an unusual assignment.

Wow!  This is a reallllllly interesting video.

It was sent to us by folks in Arkansas who visit this DIT (Daily Interesting Things) site from time to time and found it on the net. (Thanks for the link and congratulations to you Hogs fans for winning the football game Saturday! )

So, what is this video about ? you ask.

Well, seems that a small group -- a father and son and friends -- decided to send a video camera attached to a weather balloon into the upper stratosphere of earth.

It worked.  It went up to about 100,000 feet (about 19 miles) and returned some very interesting pictures.

Their video is condensed down to 6 minutes 59 seconds.

Very Interesting.  Check it out.  HERE’S THE LINK