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Two MIT students make NASA look ridiculous with their $150 project. DIY tutorial available on their site.

  • TriMeFoo
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  • Date 10/20/2009 12:30:04 PM
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alethe : LVL 3: VP 1.2: said:

alethe

19 votes NegativePositive

35 days 16 hours ago...

I`m still trying to figure out how this makes NASA look ridiculous. Sure they took some nice pictures for real cheap, and that`s a good thing no doubt but, NASA sends hundreds and even thousands of pounds of cargo into space, using enormous rockets. No matter how inefficiently they do it, which is just the nature of most government endeavors, these students don`t make them look ridiculous by any means. Even they mentioned wanting to attach a rocket to it.

The title aside, good video :) - keep up the good work all you private space adventurers.

hogo : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

hogo

11 votes NegativePositive

35 days 15 hours ago...

^yeah. Sending a couple pounds to a very low altitude considering where things like satellites and the space station orbits is no big deal. But they did a great job.

DoctorRandomercam : LVL 42: VP 5: said:

DoctorRandomercam

11 votes NegativePositive

35 days 12 hours ago...

Just need to invent the weightless rocket now. Silly nasa with their physics.

TriMeFoo : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

TriMeFoo

-4 votes NegativePositive

35 days ago...

^Yes because there is no such thing as scale....

Onisama : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

Onisama

-2 votes NegativePositive

33 days 17 hours ago...

IN YOUR FACE NASA!!

Swuave : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

Swuave

7 votes NegativePositive

33 days 11 hours ago...

What a stupid title.

Presto : LVL 41: VP 4.9: said:

Presto

1 votes NegativePositive

33 days 10 hours ago...

Yeah admin should change the title of this article

PizzaBoi : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

PizzaBoi

6 votes NegativePositive

33 days 7 hours ago...

"1337 Arts". FUCKING WIN.

insaneskippy : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

insaneskippy

1 votes NegativePositive

32 days 22 hours ago...

5/5 if for nothing but the name of their company.

Hoemo : LVL 25: VP 3.4: said:

Hoemo

5 votes NegativePositive

32 days 22 hours ago...

MIT = overrated

incognito1 : LVL 6: VP 1.5: said:

incognito1

4 votes NegativePositive

32 days 22 hours ago...

Those news casters were annoying as hell. Show them a piece of rock and they would make hyperboles and become overenthusiastic.

Bishop_Vick : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

Bishop_Vick

-4 votes NegativePositive

32 days 21 hours ago...

there not American, no surprise!

funberg : LVL 49: VP 5: said:

funberg

2 votes NegativePositive

32 days 21 hours ago...

^"there(they`re) not American". Why because they`re not white?

A digital camera, and a cell phone with GPS(made possible by NASA satellites) and internet, and a balloon. They`re not even the first people to do what they did, and NASA put people on the moon with a lander that had about the same amount of computing power as modern cell phones have. NASA projects are in part responsible for technology being advanced enough now, so they could buy the equipment for $150 and copy other peoples plans and computer programs, and take some mediocre pictures without having to do any work.

lance_christopher : LVL 28: VP 3.7: said:

lance_christopher

1 votes NegativePositive

32 days 20 hours ago...

Title should definitely be changed, i was expecting to see pics of a martian spring break. Good work still.

thundersalmon : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

thundersalmon

0 votes NegativePositive

6 days 12 hours ago...

^ I think the part of the title that refers to making Nasa look bad is simply the cost. Nasa is renowned for it`s over inflated budget and over-scale workforce.

Two guys and $150 dollars to make a stratospheric camera? At the height of the space race that would be equivalent to a 9 week old fetus and 11 cents.

looking at the scale of this project and what it achieved. yes, it does make Nasa look rather silly. But Nasa still has the credit for the advances in technology that allowed these guys to make a statement on what costs could realistically be for Geographical survey photography.

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