Last year, two Canadian boys sent a LEGO Minifigure up to the stratosphere on a homemade rig. For only $400, they were able to connect a weather balloon to a platform that held four digital cameras, a parachute, and a LEGO man, proudly holding the Canadian flag. This wasn’t done for a school project; the boys did it in their spare time purely to see if they could. Their project was a success, and the apparatus went up an estimated 24 kilometers in the air; triple the height of a commercial airliner.University of Toronto astrophysics professor Dr. Michael Reid hailed the boys’s experiment as extremely resourceful and likened it to work that Ph.D. students perform.
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