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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