Some Dads are simply just cooler than yours is/you are

[The]

Video from a camera attached to a weather balloon that rose into the upper stratosphere and recorded the blackness of space. Seven-year-old Max Geissbuhler and his dad Luke Geissbuhler dreamed of visiting space. Armed with just a weather balloon, a video camera, and an iPhone, they basically did just that.
The father-and-son team from Brooklyn managed to send their homemade spacecraft up nearly 19 miles, high into the stratosphere, bringing back perhaps the most impressive amateur space footage ever. The duo housed the video camera, iPhone, and GPS equipment in a specially designed insulated casing, along with some hand-warmers and a note from Max requesting its safe return from whomever may find it after making it back to solid ground. All told, father and son spent eight months preparing for their homemade journey into space, in hopes of filming “the blackness beyond our earth.”
Then, one day in August, Max, his father, and his friend Miles Horner headed out to a nearby park to see their dreams realized. After attaching their equipment to a 19-inch weather balloon and switching on the camera, they watched as their simple craft disappeared high into the sky.


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[NormanPride]

My dad and I made a kite once.

[yermom]

that's awesome.

[thecynic]

I got to pull my dads finger

[rekamrettuB]

My father and I made a paddle once...then he busted my arse with it.

[SunnySooner]

My dad taught me to love the Sooners. He's the bestest. ;)




And, cool vid. Explain to me again why NASA needs eleventy billion dollars to do the same thing.

[NormanPride]

After watching the video, my dad could definitely beat up his dad.

[yermom]

My dad taught me to love the Sooners. He's the bestest. ;)




And, cool vid. Explain to me again why NASA needs eleventy billion dollars to do the same thing.

well, it's harder to put people up there :D

[2121Sooner]

It's not the puttin em up there that is expensive. It is getting em back that costs so darn much.


And my dad bought be a prostitute for my 11th birthday. Winner.

[yermom]

herpes. the gift that keeps on giving.

[AlboSooner]

my dad took me to the museum once or twice

[badger]

My dad took me to my first college football game... a Divison 3 matchup that included his UW-Stevens Point Pointers.

He also took me to my second one - Wisconsin hosting Minnesota. Very cold, lots of cursing, made me want to attend school there.

Mom vetoed that, ended up at OU. :D

[Sooner_Bob]

cool

[TUSooner]

Very awesome -- especially for The ;)

But I'm kinda surprised the balloon wasn't shot down and the "explorers" whisked away by men in dark suits, sunglasses, and blacked-out Tahoes to be interrogated at an undisclosed location by the FBI or some Homeland Security types for 72 hours. Maybe that's in their next film.

[yermom]

those things are launched a few times a day all over the country

[TUSooner]

those things are launched a few times a day all over the country

Perhaps I am too cynical.

[soonerboomer93]

those things are launched a few times a day all over the country

Yup, apparently Google just did the same with 7 of the new nexus s to celebrate the launch tomorrow.

Real cool that the dad and son did it though.

[yermom]

well, i just meant weather balloons. they aren't all carrying GPS and cameras, but are carrying other stuff

[Breadburner]

My dad and I made a spam sandwhich once....

[GKeeper316]

my dad taught me everything there is to know about horses, and then promptly lost the farm in the divorce...

[soonerinkaty]

This is my jealous face.

[Oldnslo]

My Dad is dead.

[Jammin']

My dad picked me up from Tumbleweeds in stillwater once when I was waaaay too drunk to drive. My senior year in HS. And then never brought it up again.

nice pictures of space, dorks.

[Turd_Ferguson]

My Dad bought me a carton of Winston's every Christmas and said "smoke up Son!". Then he told mom, "make me a pot pie bitch!".