They haven’t been accepted to college yet, though that might change after this story.
The 17-year-olds have already sent a (Lego) man into space.
Two weeks ago, Ho and Muhammad launched a homemade balloon carrying a Legopassenger and four cameras. It fell back down to Earth 97 minutes later with astonishing footage from an estimated 24 kilometres above sea level, three times the typical cruising altitude of a commercial aircraft.
Their jerry-rigged contraption recorded the Lego man’s journey from a soccer pitch in Newmarket to the stratosphere — high enough to see their two-inch astronaut floating above curvature of our planet, clutching a Canadian flag with the blackness of space behind him.
The project cost $400 and took four months of free Saturdays. It wasn’t a school assignment. They just thought it would be cool.
Categories: Canada, Physics, Research, Science, Science and Technology, Space Exploration, Technology
everyone should not try this, it is a safety hazard to airplanes.