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Posted: 23 September 2009 - 02:24 PM

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This story is truly MacGyveresque. I could picture MacGyver pulling something like this.

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Displaying stunning ingenuity reminiscent of MacGyver, the MIT students filled a weather balloon with helium and strapped it to a styrofoam beer cooler containing a cheap Canon A470 camera that was programmed to take photos every five seconds.

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Posted: 24 September 2009 - 09:08 AM

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I saw that on the news really amazing, I bet alot of people will be doing it now, instead of wondering when the next person is going up into space, I bet someone will even go to space without paying all the money and maybe, maybe live on other world.

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