Saturday, March 27, 2010

Man Puts NASA To Shame!


A man named Robert Harrison spent approximately $747 dollars to put NASA to shame! NASA with a budget of a billion dollars must have been embarrassed! They called Robert and asked him how he did it? They were thinking he actually made a rocket to retrieve pictures of this quality in space. Of course how Robert did it may seem hard to believe that something so extravagant could be so simple! Here's how he did it. He put a camera into a polystyrene box and attached it to a helium balloon. The camera was programmed to snap 8 photos and a short video every five minutes. When the balloon reached an altitude of 22 miles, it popped. As the camera fell, a parachute opened and the box gently floated back to earth. Robert found his camera some 50 miles from his home with the help of a GPS locator. I have to say it got me thinking, how did NASA not know to try this?! Don't you wish our government would of hired this guy Robert Harrison instead of NASA? This would of saved us a lot of tax dollars!

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