We launched a bunch of paper planes from the edge of space! wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I made this!
YEAH! We released the paper planes at an altitude of over 37,000 metres which is loads higher than we thought we'd get, so christ alone knows how far they'll go. The video makes it look like we were vaguely competent and it was quite quick, neither of which are true. It was difficult and fraught.
Wolfsurg, where we launched from, translates as Wolf Castle, so I was expecting some massive Wolf-shaped castle on top of a hill with lightning and thunder flashing around it, but actually it wasn't like that at all, which is a shame, frankly.
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crab_bloke), Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:10,
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for a second there
it just looked you were about to twat someone with a bag of paper planes and memory cards....
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SpunkyBackpack, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:23,
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I never had any doubt that it would all land softly!
Honest!
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crab_bloke), Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:29,
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Wooo!
How many have you heard back from so far?
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Terry_Tibbs Coarse and violent nudity. Occasional language, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:24,
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None yet
I do hope we hear back from some! Firstly it would just be a bit crap if we didn't, and secondly i really want to know how far the things flew.
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crab_bloke), Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:30,
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if you were launching from wolfsburg, why aren't the instructions on the planes in German?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:55,
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2 possible reasons
Reason 1: We don't know which countries they will end up in and English is the more universally spoken language.
Reason 2: When we printed them out we were planning on launching from the UK which turned out not to be viable.
Take your pick!
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crab_bloke), Mon 24 Jan 2011, 12:08,
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fairy nuff
maybe next time you should stump up for one of those universally translatable versions with the Da Vinci picture on it
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 12:11,
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I thought it should just be a picture of my cock and balls
but I was overruled for some inexplicable and stupid reason
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crab_bloke), Mon 24 Jan 2011, 12:15,
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Reason 3:
Every single German speaks fluent English
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The Coast Of Yemen, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 12:15,
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Not the woman I bought my train tickets from
She didn't speak English at all. Oddly, I can express myself well enough in German, but can't understand others when they speak German. My wife is the opposite. So we had an interesting little triangle going on wherein I would ask something in German, the ticket-seller would respond in German, then my wife would tell me in English what the ticket-seller had said. Very surreal.
Anyway, good job on the paper planes! I hope I find one, but since the prevailing jet stream would need to carry it 3/4 of the way around the planet, I'm not too hopeful...
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They'll end up about 2km away from where the popped balloon landed
you fucking samsung spammer.
BTW the register beat you by about 50,000 feet, and they tracked their plane all the way down. It landed 6km away.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:00,
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Here's the thing.
We all know that this is basically a viral for Samsung. But given that traditional ads seem to be A) a bit shit, and B) a thing of the past, I hereby welcome our new adutainment overlords.
*runs off and trademarks the phrase "adutainment".
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Evil Prof. Pixel Masher I made this!, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 14:37,
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Another thing...
The register released theirs at 90,000 feet, the Spamsung planes were released at 121,000 feet plus change.
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Gregor Lenko There's a tree..., Mon 24 Jan 2011, 15:10,
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Woot
EAT THAT YOU REGISTER FUCKERS!!!
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Evil Prof. Pixel Masher I made this!, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 15:47,
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Incorrect
We don't know how far they'll go, but it will be many miles. At one atmosphere pressure they can achieve several feet of travel across the ground for every foot they lose in altitude though we don't know how they'll perform in thin air. They are optimised for fast flight though, to maximise the chances of a long distance covered.
The register project was really lovely, and it would have been nice for us if we could have got ours off before them, but we weren't able to. It was substantially different in that they launched one large plane instead of a couple of hundred paper planes, and they launched from a lower altitude. Certainly we would expect to cover a lot more distance than PARIS. Which isn't a criticism of that project- as I say it was really great.
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crab_bloke), Mon 24 Jan 2011, 16:54,
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BURN!
do the maths, this beat el reg's altitude by 70,000 feet (you missed the metres conversion)
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WhoElse I'm what Willis was talking about, Tue 22 Feb 2011, 20:37,
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woo !
ive done a few things like this, 300 planes in the que club in brum, and 500 styrofoam birds in centenary square from the top of a bungee crane on new years eve.
but never from SPACE !!!
Awesome.
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amoebaboy chose for death by unga bunga on, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:37,
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Yeah there's something very pleasing about it isn;t there
I just want to know where the sodding things ended up now.
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crab_bloke), Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:43,
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we did a test run from the bungee crane
about half came down within sight of the launch pad, but some of the birds flew completely out of sight, and managed to gain quite a bit of altitude.
not bad for a kids 20p toy, i still have a box of them lying about somewhere.
yours are going to cross continents.
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amoebaboy chose for death by unga bunga on, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:51,
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here's hoping
christ alone knows how far they'll go innit
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crab_bloke), Mon 24 Jan 2011, 12:10,
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If necessary I'm willing to go round Eastern Europe
shoving my hands up cows' arses feeling for paper planes
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crab_bloke), Mon 24 Jan 2011, 12:11,
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Wonderful :)
If I had done this I would have made the planes from discarded jazz mags found on railway sidings.
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Monty Propps, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:43,
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Imagine the delight when you find Tracey, 22 from Scunthorpe has come to rest on your lawn.
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Monty Propps, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:51,
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And used jazz mags would offer...
...paper that had been 'doped' to make it stiffer.
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Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Fri 28 Jan 2011, 21:51,
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As you get older, you look more and more like an excited farmer.
Beer sometime?
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LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:45,
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Yes by all means!
And how many excited farmers have you been studying? what exactly are you doing to excite them?
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crab_bloke), Mon 24 Jan 2011, 11:48,
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And it happens, my father is a milking machine engineer and, as a boy, I used to work installing effluent management systems.
I have seen a lot of very excited farmers and mostly this has been shit related.
I'm up on Friday and Saturday for a party, then probably Tuesday next week, I'll drop you a line.
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LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 12:11,
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I love lactase for example
But ALL Oxidoreductases are BASTARDS!
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crab_bloke), Mon 24 Jan 2011, 12:33,
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Those ones you hate?
I... er... Yeah, I'm none of them.
(I never listened enough in biology to learn any enzyme names. My biological knowledge extends no further than doing potato paintings.)
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 12:44,
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Hey you're alright, I didn;t mean you
it's just all the OTHER Oxidoreductases, you know, the ones who go around wanting to catalyze all of OUR oxidation/reduction reactions, that are bastards. Not you, no, you;re alright. it;s the other ones. FUCKING BASTARDS THE LOT OF THEM but not you
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crab_bloke), Mon 24 Jan 2011, 12:53,
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and your new name, as ace as it is, makes me miss milk explosion.
he ain't round anymore, is he?
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zog why change it now?, Fri 28 Jan 2011, 22:40,
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I love:
1) How, "by released" you mean, "passively waited until they assploded".
2) There's a definite sense of almost giving birth when it happened.
3) The way you look a little like Sloth from The Goonies on the preview slide.
4) Your stuff makes me squee.
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Evil Prof. Pixel Masher I made this!, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:13,
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Lovely, lovely lovely, however
have you considered the fact that "Samsung Paper Planes" might translate into an alien language as "come and have a go if you think you're hard enough you slimy, boggle eyed, green gits! love from Earth"? An intergalactic war could be possible
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herd of chickens First part only £1.99 and comes with a free, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 13:28,
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Bring on the intergalatic war!
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
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crab_bloke), Mon 24 Jan 2011, 16:42,
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Those planes look like Nakamura Locks with tails
best paper plane evar - clicky
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custard, Mon 24 Jan 2011, 19:07,
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Yep that definitely looks like the one
though i had no idea it was called that. andy chipling gave us the design - the fin is called the chipling fin, as he very proudly told us.
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crab_bloke), Mon 24 Jan 2011, 20:54,
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Joel this is an almighty job
and it was an enormous pleasure charging are the virgin German countryside with you and cr3 - hurrah!
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CONGRATS!!!!!
You boys have advanced the British space program into the 18th century. I only wish I could have been a part of it.
Really, this is worthy of a graduate degree program. I'm impressed!
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phatotis while ($hair < $clean) { lather; rinse; }, Fri 28 Jan 2011, 17:04,
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Brilliant stuff, will be following this to see how far they get. I reckon Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire will be the furthest.
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I saw this somewhere...
...on the news or something...can't remember where exactly, but I remember thinking that looks like that crab bloke. And hey presto, it's you!
Nice one! I hope someone finds it.
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caldini Have you seen my polar bear?, Fri 28 Jan 2011, 18:53,
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What was the onboard camera?
And how did you power it? The main problem with these seems to be the super-low temperatures conking out the camera batteries. I'm very impressed you got it rolling all the way until you were underneath it. Nice effort!
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it's a gopro hd hero
in a polystyrene box for insulation innit
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crab_bloke), Sat 29 Jan 2011, 8:03,
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Article in Australian News about the Space Planes' Descent
A good bit of publicity for the Project (and Joel) with some post-release sightings reported in the mainstream news
www.perthnow.com.au/news/special-features/paper-planes-released-from-upper-atmosphere-reportedly-spotted-from-winnipeg-to-berlin/story-e6frg1ac-1225996312857
And i have no idea why they'd have this ridiculously long URL for the article!
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Tiffany Aching 's bowl of oatmeal tried to stare her down and won, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 0:27,
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yays! that's lovely isn;t it!
and by the way, if you have long url, simply shove it right up the arse! upthear.se/
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crab_bloke), Sat 29 Jan 2011, 8:06,
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