Toronto teens send Lego man into space: video

You go Canadians!!!!!!
These kids from Toronto,Canada,with the help of their teacher,send a lego man 15 miles up into the stratosphere.

How cool is that?

Complete with a ufo.

Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, used a weather balloon ordered online and a makeshift Styrofoam spacecraft to send the plastic astronaut 24 kilometers (15 miles) into the stratosphere, reports said. Their high school principal Lecourgos Papathanasakis confirmed the "amazing voyage" to AFP, but neither of the teens was immediately available for comment. An accelerated video clip posted online shows highlights of the Lego man during his 97-minute odyssey.

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00:36. Either a lens flare or satellite in low low orbit.

Cool video.

hehe wow ! Yaay for canada!


I wanna do that too . Come on space tourism , get your kinks out and let me get up in space!!


i wanna do something like this also , but im afraid on its way up , or its way back down it gets caught up in a airplanes engines , and i cause the death of 200 people

Originally posted by AaronWilson
00:36. Either a lens flare or satellite in low low orbit.

Cool video.

Just kidding about the ufo,thought I would get a jump on it.

What a great lesson for those kids to learn. Glad there are some real teachers left in schools! As for the UFO, You can see it at 1:01 also. Curious as to what it is? Maybe it is Nibiru

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Very very cool !!!!

And I like this comment underneath the vid:

What is that object in orbit at the 1 min mark?

Satellite ??

S&F.

That's amazing, a true slap in the face to the multi-billion dollar space programs that still feed us black and white polaroids.

S+F!

And how enterprising,they attached a parachute to it and tracked it down.

The duo then consulted a website to calculate the estimated landing spot of the weather balloon based on launch coordinates, prevailing winds and other data before launching it from a soccer pitch in nearby Newmarket, Ontario. At seven kilometers (four miles) in altitude, the balloon traveled out of cell phone range and the GPS signal also cut out, so they went home and reportedly made dumplings. Then Ho's iPad beeped. The Lego man had re-entered the atmosphere and touched down in a field 120 kilometers (75 miles) from the launch point. (c) 2012 AFP

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Originally posted by raiders247
That's amazing, a true slap in the face to the multi-billion dollar space programs that still feed us black and white polaroids.

S+F!

An iphone,a balloon,one lego man =$500.

Making NASA look like a fool= Priceless

Those cruel thugs!

He'll asphyxiate!!!!!!!!!!

LMAO. Great video. I'm afraid my Lego men did not get the adventure this guy did. Unless you count a trip down the toilet to parts unknown.

Originally posted by UFO1414
LMAO. Great video. I'm afraid my Lego men did not get the adventure this guy did. Unless you count a trip down the toilet to parts unknown.

I have dug a few out of the sink trap along with other things.
Like,how do socks get down there,I mean really kids???

I want to send my dog up there!!

Just kidding you peta freaks,

Cool clip!

I saw the object also,and i am thinking it may possibly be The Moon.

Way to go Guy's

One more thing to add to my ONLY IN CANADA thread



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Watching them on CTV NEWS right now

Great VID

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All I can say is.........


You Canadians know to take advantage of a nice warm sun when you can get one.

The name Lego, is a combination of the two danish words "Leg godt".

Translated it means "play good" or "have fun playing".
Well these guys seems to have fun.

Next step, the moon...

Originally posted by AaronWilson
00:36. Either a lens flare or satellite in low low orbit.

Cool video.

Or, you know, the moon.

Great video....wonder how long it will be before Lego puts that in a commercial and pays these guys big bucks to do their marketing! That and come out with a new line of "space friendly" legos!

Originally posted by SpongeBeard

Originally posted by AaronWilson
00:36. Either a lens flare or satellite in low low orbit.

Cool video.

Or, you know, the moon.

was scroling down and i was like "seriously... all they can think is nibiru or low satelite? HOW ABOUT THE MOON?" at least you saved me from bitching

Originally posted by raiders247
That's amazing, a true slap in the face to the multi-billion dollar space programs that still feed us black and white polaroids.

Seriously? NASA feeds us a constant stream of high def full color photos. We're not in the 50's anymore

Originally posted by kdog1982
An iphone,a balloon,one lego man =$500.

Making NASA look like a fool= Priceless

What these kids did was cool and fun, but it doesn't even scratch the surface of what NASA has accomplished. They sent a little toy into the stratosphere which is still part of the earth's atmosphere and still subject to gravity. Heck, even commercial airliners fly in the stratosphere to optimize fuel burn. Saying this act makes a fool out of NASA is like saying my son made a fool out of Einstein because he finished his 5th grade science homework.