High-Altitude Balloon Tweets Earth 49
celsomartinho writes "Spacebits is yet another low-cost High-Altitude Balloon (HAB) with a computer probe being launched to near space on 30 May, this time in Portugal. The twist with this project, besides the cool electronics, cameras, and sensors on board, is the fact that the team provided the online community with a real-time web dashboard so that everyone can follow the two-hour journey up to 100,000 feet and back to earth. Real-time data includes measurements from all its sensors, including temperature, pressure, humidity and air quality, altitude, acceleration, and GPS coordinates and a live Twitter feed. The team is also using a public GSM network to send SMS lat/lon/alt coordinates to anyone willing to go on launch site and participate in the probe hunt." The balloon goes off Memorial Day weekend, so bookmark the page if you're on call.
Hmm (Score:4, Funny)
A mindless orb looking down on us all posting updates about its uninteresting activities? How will we distinguish this from anybody else on Twitter?
Tweet! (Score:4, Funny)
11:00 : I'm flying! ...
11:05 : Still flying!
11:10 : Yep. Still flying.
11:15 : I'm bored.
11:20 : I spy with my little eye something beginning with S.
11:25 : Yep. It was sky. I'm so bored.
11:35 : Booooring.
13:15 : Kiiiil meeee. Kiiiiiil meeee please...
Re:!news (Score:3, Funny)
Unless it's about Facebook using Twitter, or Twitter using Facebook. That would just melt your face.
Re:Tweet! (Score:1, Funny)
11:00 : Beep!
11:05 : Beep!
11:10 : Beep!
11:15 : Beep!
11:20 : Beep!
11:25 : Beep!
11:35 : Beep!
13:15 : Beep!
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