It's very cool that two 17-year-old Canadians sent a flag-toting Lego figurine into the sky on a weather balloon, as part of a weekend project that cost less than $500. It's cooler still that they got back some fantastic video of the toy silhouetted against the backdrop of a curving Earth beneath a black sky. But let's not call it putting a "Lego man in space." Even though the balloon ascended to around 80,000 feet, that's only a quarter of the way to the boundary of outer space.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20 ... the-clouds

That is so completely awesome!

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History shows again and again how nature points up the folly of man

That was truly epic! What a cool visual!

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"Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars"