Nexus S Gets Sent to Space (the S is for Space?)

[Marcus Yam]

Boldly going where no Droid has gone before... no wait... they have... in a galaxy far, far away.

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[michalmierzwa]

Awesome!

 

[elcentral]

space Androids final frontier, or is it?

 

[the_krasno]

This is their mission, to boldly go, where no smartphone has gone before...

 

[grillz9909]

inb4 iphone was already in space

 

[Albyint]

It wont be long until we have 50g service in earths outer lagrange points. Gundam, here we come.

 

[squanto]

I have to say it, space is recognized to be about 300000 feet. Can you believe though that a man "sky dived" from 101000 feet back to earth?

 

[Guest]

You can't send a balloon into space, balloons only work in the atmosphere. You can send balloons to a little over 100k feet easily, but that is no where close to the actual accepted altitude where "space" starts. It is only 1/3 of the way there. Please stop posting these incorrect headlines every single time someone launches a weather balloon with a phone or a camera on it.

And just an FYI, people have been doing these amateur balloons for decades with phones and cameras on board. On average there are several launched per month all over the world. None of the balloon groups claim to fly these things into space, only news websites who don't understand how a balloon floats put up these stupid headlines about a balloon going into space. The amateur community likes the term "near space" so use that please.

 

[doron]

[citation][nom]grillz9909[/nom]inb4 iphone was already in space[/citation]

He said smartphone dummy 😛

 

[p4nz3rm4d]

More like an asteroid than an android

 

[CoryInJapan]

So with all the economical problems and hunger in the world and all the fighting going on..this is the best thing we can come up with? sad =/

 

[cmartin011]

i would have liked a little more interesting experiment like long distance high altitude recon balloon strapped with cell phones with special apps and high tech battery and usb device to relay instant media back and forth.

 

[cmartin011]

how they receive the date back? 3g att? not likely about 4,000ft service runs dead from airport. must have had a satellite link or a transmitter amplifier on board. where are the details tom? come on!!!

 

[NuclearShadow]

[citation][nom]CoryInJapan[/nom]So with all the economical problems and hunger in the world and all the fighting going on..this is the best thing we can come up with? sad =/[/citation]

I don't know about you but this has clearly made me inspired to hire more cubical dwellers, donate money to feed the hungry, and to stop buying my wife those beautiful blood diamonds.

 

[Parsian]

i believe DATA is the grand grand grand son of this Droid

 

[nebun]

cool, but they made it a little dramatic.

 

[igot1forya]

[citation][nom]squanto[/nom]I have to say it, space is recognized to be about 300000 feet. Can you believe though that a man "sky dived" from 101000 feet back to earth?[/citation]
That same man broke the sound-barrier wearing nothing but a space suit due to the thin atmosphere at 100K/ft! That had to be one heck of a sky-dive!

 

[cookoy]

very neat marketing stunt - just plain outdoor fun!

 

[vittau]

I wouldn't want to be at that droid's landing point.

 

[eddieroolz]

Cool.