Well at least their equipment did. What? They sent their wieners to space? Not that equipment you little perverts, more like a cell phone with GPS, a camera with rigged software to take pictures every 5 seconds and a weather balloon. (can you get weather balloons at Party City?) This small group of MIT students apparently have a lot more to do on a weekend than I do. They were able to checkout the Earth in a mere 4 hours with this "Project Icarus" who rightfully have been closer to the sun than I probably ever will be.
Just think, It costs NASA a couple of hundred million dollars every time they want to go to space. OF course they are bringing things the size of buses with them that weigh hundreds of tons, but there has to be a medium somewhere.Check out their web site here for more info.
Talk about P.O.V. video! WOW! Quite by accident I ran into this gem on the YouTubes. I was shocked. This truly a celebration of flight rather than war even though the objects used are indeed killing machines. They also happen to be the only things that can do that. A celebration of what may soon be history, pilots piloting their own craft from within it. The future is certainly ground based pilots in the near future and human-less pilots in the not so distant future. I suppose videos like this will still be attainable but surely it would lack the attitude in the maneuvers details, the joy you can see in the way the plane reacts to the pilots subtle changes as he deals with the turbulence at thousands of miles per hour. Simply amazing, or more accurately, very complicatedly amazing.
