Make a real spaceship for $500 and have the pictures to prove it
This is really one of the most amazing things I have ever seen on the web... Here is a guy that took a simply retail Canon PowerShot digital camera, a weather balloon and a bucket of wires and...
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This is really one of the most amazing things I have ever seen on the web...
Here is a guy that took a simply retail Canon PowerShot digital camera, a weather balloon and a bucket of wires and reached 30,000m or 100,000 feet.
All of this for about $500 of parts.
I just get chills thinking of what we are capable of - and I get anxious for us to get to space NOW.
Let's raise the tax on gasoline to $6 a gallon, get off of oil, fix the grid, install efficient appliances, eat locally grown food and use the surplus energy and resources to get off Earth, go to Mars and the asteroids!
Ad astra!
-Erik
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wacaline — April 14 2011, 16:34:17 UTC
excellent articles, useful for me. keep writing and happy blogging.
rubidint — April 9 2011, 14:45:06 UTC
hello, I sent an email to you about this post, its not coming thru for me. Can you connect with me when you get a chance.
anonymous — February 7 2011, 05:03:55 UTC
The sun never sets on the British Empire.
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Published: April 3, 2009 7:42 PM
Last updated: February 20, 2026 5:04 AM
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