Comments on: Teens send Lego minifig into space

By: irtristan

irtristan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:23:12 +0000

It is really impressive and even how he got it to all float was even more Impressive

By: Tromas

Tromas — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:40:16 +0000

@ Blake – The article said that they did use a GPS enabled cell phone to track it. But they also used a weather balloon tracking site which estimates the landing area based on current wind direction etc. It ended up landing 122km from where it was launched.

By: Morgan19

Morgan19 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:29:00 +0000

What a wonderful story. Make sure you watch the video, too; the shots of it going up past the cloud cover and then with the earth’s curvature behind it are just crazy!

By: Blego7

Blego7 — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:19:44 +0000

That is the best thing I have read all week.

By: CatJuggling

CatJuggling — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:48:16 +0000

That’s amazing! Quite the insipiration. I’ve gotta show my kids.

By: tiberium blue

tiberium blue — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:45:47 +0000

Someone should do this with the travelling classic-castle fig.

By: NickBrick

NickBrick — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:27:29 +0000

That’s incredible.

By: blake

blake — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:25:28 +0000

Very cool! I wonder how far down range the rig landed and what they used to track the landed rig, a phone?