Teens Photograph Lego Minifigure at Edge of Space for $400

Re:Teens Photograph Lego Minifigure at Edge of Space for $400 by johnyzee on Friday January 27, 2012 @05:09AM (#3517786)

It's funny, we routinely travel thousands of miles across the earth on jets, yet going ten miles up is like going off the edge of the world.

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Re:Teens Photograph Lego Minifigure at Edge of Space for $400 by Retric on Friday January 27, 2012 @08:59AM (#3518260)

Jet's can get 10 miles up with minimal difficulty. The problem with getting into space is you need to get 10 miles then go another 200 miles up and accelerate to mach 22.

PS: The record for a jet is 23.4 miles up, here is a good visual scale for LEO. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Orbitalal... Note: The ISS still has to burn a fair amount of fuel to stay in orbit, but it's reasonable.

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Re:Teens Photograph Lego Minifigure at Edge of Space for $400 by mistermann on Saturday January 28, 2012 @12:51AM (#3521445)

>The problem with getting into space is you need to get 10 miles then go another 200 miles up and accelerate to mach 22.

Can you expand on this? (Especially about the Mach 22)

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Re:Teens Photograph Lego Minifigure at Edge of Space for $400 by szany on Saturday January 28, 2012 @06:06AM (#3521816)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=orbital+velocity+of+ISS...

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Re:Teens Photograph Lego Minifigure at Edge of Space for $400 by tikhonj on Friday January 27, 2012 @05:58AM (#3517871)

Well, it literally is like going off the edge of the world ;)

Besides, going across the earth is just like walking around the block, just with a bigger radius.

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Re:Teens Photograph Lego Minifigure at Edge of Space for $400 by lurker17 on Friday January 27, 2012 @07:31PM (#3520858)

s/radius/arc length/

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