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iPhone sent into space
nymag.com Published Oct 18
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NASA! Eat your heart out! A father and son from Brooklyn sent the latest iPhone model into outer space recently, reported the New York Magazine. Dad Luke Geissbühler spent eight months researching and testing a way to video the Earth's curvature, according to the iphonedownloadblog.
He put the iPhone in a cushioned capsule, tied it to a weather balloon and let it go with the camera rolling.
The iPhone and balloon floated up to a height of 19,000 miles, where the camera recorded the earth's curvature and black sky.
At that height, the low pressure caused the balloon to burst, descend and land just outside New York.
The owners found the space-traveliing iPhone via GPS and have six minutes of film to show the world. According to the iphonedownloadblog, the Geissbuhlers are working on a how-to guide so that other parents and kids can try this for themselves.
