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Re: Red Thunder, here we come!

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Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> wrote in news:20150912a@crcomp.net:

> 
> Joe Bernstein <joe@sfbooks.com> wrote:
>> So apparently while I wasn't looking a bunch of people have been
>> launching stuff into the stratosphere, including, several years ago,
>> two seventeen-year-old boys:
>>
>> <http://www.space.com/14397-teens-lego-man-space-stratosphere.html>
>>
>> Well, last weekend, not all that far from me in Seattle, came
>> something to rather more than trump that:
>>
>> <http://www.geekwire.com/2015/two-seattle-girls-launched-a-balloon-to-
>> the-edge-of-space-this-weekend-and-have-the-video-to-prove-it/> 
>>
>> By "girls", in this case, it turns out, is meant one ten-year-old and
>> one eight-year-old.  They apparently got their balloon to go 78,000
>> feet up, which is 2,000 less than the teenagers in 2012.
>> ObSF in subject.

There's a bit of a fad for launching weather balloons to high altitudes,
and including a small figurine or object in view of a camera, most for
the sheer incongruity of seeing Hello Kitty against curving horizon.

> The Qu8k rocket made it to 121,000' at Black Rock BALLS 20 in 2011.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvDqoxMUroA . IIRC one of the BALLS
> founders expects orbital flight real soon now.

'Orbital flight'? Or 'reaching orbital height'? There's a huge
difference in energy and guidance requirements. The latter is
much easier to do.

pt

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Red Thunder, here we come! Joe Bernstein <joe@sfbooks.com> - 2015-09-11 21:01 -0700
  Re: Red Thunder, here we come! Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-09-12 17:01 +0000
    Re: Red Thunder, here we come! Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2015-09-12 15:24 -0500
      Re: Red Thunder, here we come! Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-09-12 22:31 +0000
        Re: Red Thunder, here we come! Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2015-09-12 21:43 -0500
      YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-09-13 01:33 -0600
        Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-09-13 03:51 -0400
          Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) - 2015-09-20 23:23 +0000
            Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2015-09-20 19:56 -0500
              Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-09-20 20:18 -0700
              Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) - 2015-09-22 05:46 +0000
                Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-09-22 04:04 -0400
        Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 10:31 -0500
          Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2015-09-13 19:41 +0100
            Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 21:15 -0500
              Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 06:05 -0400
                Re: YASID: Moon in a very low orbit. Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2015-09-14 18:47 -0700
          Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-09-13 21:49 -0700
            Re: YASID:  Moon in a very low orbit. Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-09-14 10:21 -0600
              Re: YASID: Moon in a very low orbit. nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) - 2015-09-14 20:26 +0000
  Re: Red Thunder, here we come! Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2015-09-14 11:43 +0800
    Re: Red Thunder, here we come! "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 06:16 -0400
      Re: Red Thunder, here we come! "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-09-14 06:24 -0400

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