Eat my shorts Nasa! Digital Camera in space for 148 bucks!

[pOrk]

Thought this was pretty neat

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/the-150-space-camera-mit-students-beat-nasa-on-beer-money-budget?

[subliminal1284]

It didnt actually enter space, but still pretty cool none the less.

[pOrk]

A lot closer then I've gotten anyways :)

[Al]

The highest I've ever sent anything up was about 15,000 feet.

[Crawlin]

That's cool!!!

Sad thing is if they do that project and put it up online, we'll be seeing a ton of people shooting things up in the air like that trying to get their own pictures. Don't know how dangerous falling objects will be, haha.

[xxsn0blindxx]

The picture you see above was shot from around 93,000 feet, just shy of 18 miles high. It’s short of the widely-accepted Kármán line, which is at 100km (62 miles) up, but it’s in the stratosphere, and it’s still impressive. To give you an idea of how high that is, when the balloon burst, the beer-cooler took 40 minutes to come back to Earth.

I thought that was an interesting perspective on how high up it went.

[73MACH]

that was sweet!

[DirtyMax]

Watch out for an increased number of random falling beer coolers soon... they plan to illustrate the process in detail...

[lordairgtar]

^^^^^^......and this crowd? "What!?! No beer inside? Just this crappy camera and cell phone! I really wanted a beer."

[badass88gt]

I wonder how close it will land, I really want to try this.