Near the top of the flight, with the blackness of space apparent and, to a degree, the curvature of the earth.
The University of Southampton Physics Society Outreach Project:
Just about to let go of it!
On the way up, between the two cloud layers. Likely Stratocumulus below and Cirrus above (email me if I’m wrong!)
This year, Southampton University PhySoc decided to engage schools with a science experiment to see their experiments launched into “space”. We launched, with the aid of Cambridge University Spaceflight Society (CUSF) from Churchill college and tracked the balloon throughout the duration of it’s flight.
This project hopes to get students excited about practical science and inspire them to
study Physics at the University of Southampton. The Physoc Outreach team is run by
dedicated Physics undergraduates who are passionate about passing on their
enthusiasm for science.
School children put their experiments into table-tennis balls which were then launched on a balloon with a tracker designed by Matthew Brejza, a member of the Southampton University ASTRA Initiative.
Table-tennis balls provided by school children, with a few of our own experiments too!
The payload also included cameras loaded with CHDK software to take pictures on the way up. As a group, we saw this as a brilliant time to also launch some of our own personal hobbies up and so a Minecraft “Creeper” and chest were launched.
Really get a feeling of being near space up here
Just after launch from Cambridge
The balloon burst early due to a bad balloon and reached a maximum altitude of 23km! It then descended and landed in a field where after, quite a lot of searching, we found everything still intact and still taking photos!
The payload as we found it in the field, in a wheat “crater”
Team photo after we found it lying in the field. All the cameras and payload electronics were still running.
Chris Frohmaier, Committee Chairman – outreach@physoc.org.uk
Ben Oxley, Lead Engineer
Matthew Brejza, Electronics Engineer
Twitter- @PhysocOutreach
{Creeper going past the sky limit…}
Creeper: hello? Anyone?
………….
(In space)
Creeper: wha… what’s that? It’s large and round and gray… I know I’ll call it a “moon”, I need to spiffy it up…
(Calls friends and they go to outer space and go to the moon)
Creeper: on the count of…
Other creeper: 3!!!!
KABLAMO!!!
And that is how the moon got craters…..
Good thing this happened before the 1.4 update, otherwise the creeper would have exploded upon impact XD
Goodbye Mr. Astley. *launches balloon*
Why didn’t they put creepers in space long ago before I had a creeper blow up my freekin farm… twice!!
Orbital drop shock creepers.
Odsc XD
so THATS why the moon has craters…
Hmm not bad.
Thatsssss a niccce balloon you have there…. it would be a ssssshame if anything were to happen to it….BOOM
Hello ssssssSSSSsssssteve! I can sssssssee your nice cassssssssstle you’ve built there, it would be a shame if ssssssssomething happened to it, like a ssssssssspaccccccce creeper going ssssssSSSSSSssssss…BOOOM!
I think the creeper burst the balloon… LOL. They should have known that creepers explode.
I saw Herobrine and a charged creeper see and chase me, well Herobrine fired arrows
I wonder if we can send ALL the creepers into space and never let them come back down… that would keep them away from my house.
A look inside a Creeper’s mind:
Oooh! A chesssssst! Wait . . . why am I flying? Oh, hey! It’ssssss earth! Ohno ohno ohno falling falling faaaaaaaaaaalllllliiiiinnnnggggg . . . .
Awww . . . it took me like 20 minutes to plant all that wheat! When I get my extremely pixelated hands on–”TSSSssssssssSSsssssssssssSs . . . “–Oh no.
Minecraft n00b was killed by Creeper
Minecraft n00b left the game
I love reading the minecraft wiki. It can have link to some pretty awsome stuff. ;D
Anyone agree?
Btw, I’m looking for a good minecraft server. Anyone have one?
Hilarious that the creeper made a hole in a real life wheat field! What are the odds?
o__O omg i cant believe He didnt get his Buddies from he double hockey sticks and blow earth up …………………….i wonder if hes a good creeper
whatssssssssss next creepersssss on ssssssaturn?
That’sssssssssssssssssssssss a nice Creeper you have there. It’d be a… oh wait, ssssssssomething did happen to it.
Finally it has its moment in the sun (or maybe the emptiness of space… O.o) after blowing up my house TWICE!!!
OH you think that’s bad! I had FINALLY built a castle out of sand (Get it? Sand castle) in survival and I went in and there was a creeper in the room with the central torch (it holds up the other torches and sand) I had toomanyitems mod so I got a diamond sword and charged in but it explode so the whole thing collapsed with me in it!
Creepers gonna fly!
Thatssssssssssssss a nicccccccccccccccccccccce chesssssssssssssssst you have there!
Oh no my Wheat!
U wont hear any explosions O_o!
Holy sh*t, since when did they make the sky limit so high?
okay, i thought creepers hated me and cursed my life, but this is just plain ludicrious
in space, no one can hear you ‘tssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss’
Lol, space creepers, what next? will they appear on another planet?
*Added new Portal: allows you to go to Earth
*Added the ability for mobs to use portals
^ Please be careful with this, we don’t want any Ghast…
Impressive!
Thatsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss Good.
Good?
How big was the explosion it made when it landed?
Really hate to be that guy, but….Thatsssss a niccce earth you have there…. it would be a ssssshame if anything were to happen to it
Thatsss an old joke you have there… It wouldn’t be a shame if something happened to it.
Hey, don’t crush his creativity, it’s funny to me
I agree. Its kinda cute.
Cool
Awesome
Minecraft FTW. Even the creeper with his chest that went 23km never exploded on impact!
YAY finally the space creeper! lol idk what im doing
lol