Geeks Trying To Be Funny » national geographic http://sevenfloorsdown.com/geeks ...because computer engineers are people too. Wed, 23 May 2012 00:50:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Nat Geo builds House from UP…and it flies http://sevenfloorsdown.com/geeks/archives/1637 http://sevenfloorsdown.com/geeks/archives/1637#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 01:01:04 +0000 christian http://sevenfloorsdown.com/geeks/?p=1637 Yup; the National Geographic people build a replica of the House from the movie UP.  It’s a only a 16 feet by 16 feet replica and it only used 300 weather balloons but it flew for an hour and reached 10,000 feet.  It’s for the a new series called How Hard Can It Be? which premiers this fall.

Note, though the Mythbusters did an experiment on lifting a girl using ordinary helium balloons, the same kind that Mr. Fredrickson supposed to have used. Given that, the physics would have surely been different.

Original post via My Modern Met.

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]]> http://sevenfloorsdown.com/geeks/archives/1637/feed 0 Amazing Sailfish Photos http://sevenfloorsdown.com/geeks/archives/290 http://sevenfloorsdown.com/geeks/archives/290#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:00:35 +0000 christian http://sevenfloorsdown.com/geeks/?p=290 Really cool-looking underwater photos of sailfish preying on a really big school of sardines! The sailfish–which can change colors–are breathtaking with iridescence when they’re excited.

Link to photo gallery via National Geographic

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