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Title: Canadians get things done
Post by: blαh2355 on January 28, 2012, 02:31:08 PM: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/lego-man-space-moves-230122438.html (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/lego-man-space-moves-230122438.html)
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: Foofoojack on January 28, 2012, 02:33:42 PM: Saw this on the news a few days ago
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: Sabb on January 28, 2012, 02:41:26 PM: Damn straight.
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: TehHank on January 28, 2012, 02:43:52 PM: They should launch Gnome chompski into space. Nerdgasms everywhere
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: Rocket50 on January 28, 2012, 02:46:45 PM: Canadian space agency's 400 dollar a year budget spent well
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: Astropilot on January 28, 2012, 02:49:12 PM: Quote from: Rocket50 on January 28, 2012, 02:46:45 PM
Canadian space agency's 400 dollar a year budget spent well
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: Dale Feles on January 28, 2012, 03:02:20 PM: Country

I are proud.
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: Shawn on January 28, 2012, 03:06:53 PM: So this is what a $425 million budget is spent on....

And they couldn't even afford a helmet for Mr. Lego Man :(
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: Sabb on January 28, 2012, 03:38:06 PM: Quote from: Shawn on January 28, 2012, 03:06:53 PM
So this is what a $425 million budget is spent on....

And they couldn't even afford a helmet for Mr. Lego Man :(
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Two teens from Toronto successfully launched a Lego figure into near space -- and launched a storm of interest on the Web.
Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, 17-year-old classmates at Agincourt Collegiate Institute, took four months, many Saturdays, and $400 to carry a Lego figurine and four cameras miles above the earth, a project that the two did for fun, not for class.
They aren't a part of the Canadian Space Agency... ._.
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: Shawn on January 28, 2012, 03:41:24 PM: Quote from: Sabb on January 28, 2012, 03:38:06 PM
>They aren't a part of the Canadian Space Agency... ._.

I'm aware of that, it was a joke maybe i should add "joke" in brackets next time..
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: Sabb on January 28, 2012, 03:42:30 PM: Quote from: Shawn on January 28, 2012, 03:41:24 PM
I'm aware of that, it was a joke maybe i should add "joke" in brackets next time..
Oh okay lol. I didn't think you were joking ._..
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: Shawn on January 28, 2012, 03:44:41 PM: Quote from: Sabb on January 28, 2012, 03:42:30 PM
Oh okay lol. I didn't think you were joking ._..

Ya we need one of those joke faces or something... Detecting jokes/sarcasm can be hard at times through text.
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: WarEclipse™ on January 28, 2012, 04:08:15 PM: Canadians are cool.
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: Peetah on January 28, 2012, 07:53:55 PM: Quote from: WarEclipse™ on January 28, 2012, 04:08:15 PM
Canadians are cool.
Dam strait!

Also, how the hell did they get it back?
A rope that stretches to space?
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: ursus on January 28, 2012, 08:01:24 PM: Quote from: Peetah on January 28, 2012, 07:53:55 PM
Dam strait!

Also, how the hell did they get it back?
A rope that stretches to space?

small parachute and a GPS tracker
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: Juan_Ambriz on January 28, 2012, 08:13:49 PM: That has got to be the most amazing and scariest thing I have seen this week lol, for some reason In movies and games when things just fall from extremely high I freak out lol, I just feel wierd :P
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: ursus on January 28, 2012, 08:31:18 PM: Also, FYI: that wasn't the moon in the video, that was wheatley
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: yoshi on January 28, 2012, 08:40:04 PM: Quote from: gamefreak171 on January 28, 2012, 08:31:18 PM
Also, FYI: that wasn't the moon in the video, that was wheatley

So to this day he still never came back to earth?
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: Supertoaster on January 28, 2012, 09:11:36 PM: Quote from: Yoshi on January 28, 2012, 08:40:04 PM
So to this day he still never came back to earth?
I can't remember but isn't he in orbit around the moon?

So technically the moon has a moon now.
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: ledjohnny on January 28, 2012, 09:25:13 PM: Xrain be jelly...
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: Xrain on January 28, 2012, 09:29:59 PM: Our space-grant group has done projects similar to that, they send payloads up on weather balloons. It's a great low-cost way to do awesome stuff. Though technically that legoman didn't make it to space. 75000 feet is only 14-15 miles while the US "official" boarder to space is 50 miles, the ESA's definition is 100 km which is 62 miles.

On an unrelated note, I happened to sit next to an official from the Canadian space agency on a plane flight. He was a pretty interesting person to talk to.
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: Shawn on January 28, 2012, 09:47:20 PM: Quote from: Xrain on January 28, 2012, 09:29:59 PM
Though technically that legoman didn't make it to space. 75000 feet is only 14-15 miles

The article said "near space" which means anywhere from 20km to 100km.
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: semy32 on January 29, 2012, 02:49:25 AM: Wasn't it supposed to burn down when it fell?
Title: Re: Canadians get things done
Post by: blαh2355 on January 29, 2012, 04:39:55 AM: Quote from: semy32(HUN) on January 29, 2012, 02:49:25 AM
Wasn't it supposed to burn down when it fell?
It was in near space, so it hadn't even reached the atmosphere yet.