NASA spends millions to get things to space...

[Yoshi64Mario]

...And a nineteen year old teen does it for only a few hundred with a second-hand camera from e-Bay and it all sounds like a backyard project that many could probably make and do at home.

Here's the link that also comes with an interview with the teenager: http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/-/watch/30644172/out-of-this-world-snaps/

And NASA spends all that money. Guess they could learn a thing or too from this kid, heh.

 

[Moclon]

I'm sorry Y64, but this is the stupidest thing I ever heard.
He wasted $300 to take a picture of Earth, NASA spends millions to get people up there.

Make another topic once he lands on the moon using E-bay, I'll then call the boy a genious.
At the moment, he just wasted $300 which could've been better spent.

 

[Zexis]

NASA also performs developmental and scientific research, purchases and develops equipment, has to pay the staff, engineers, etc., and oversees missions of much greater magnitude than any of us could conceive in our backyards.

So I think they're justified in spending a bit more.

 

[Member]

I've always though about making a video like this with a camera or my 3DS, but here is why I am afraid to:

• It could get lost, and I will never find it.
• It could land in water.
• It could get damaged by something.
• It could be stolen.

So that's pretty much why, but I still think NASA should do it this way.

 

[SpoonySage]

I've always though about making a video like this with a camera or my 3DS, but here is why I am afraid to:

• It could be stolen.

People steal stuff I launch into space ALL the time.

 

[Zexis]

I've always though about making a video like this with a camera or my 3DS, but here is why I am afraid to:

• It could be stolen.

People steal stuff I launch into space ALL the time.

Really can't trust the aliens these days.

 

[ninjablooper]

Yoshian, I really doubt you'd be able to recover whatever you shoot up. It'd burn in the atmosphere probably.

 

[That 3DS Guy]

Actually, the rechargeable battery, the LCD display (if it had one), and the plastics it was made from were all products, one way or another, of NASA technology. Of course, the WORLD'S FIRST digital camera was built by NASA for the Apollo mission in 1969...sorry...waa..waa.waaaa...waaaaaaaaah

 

[Zexis]

...did you just break into a rock ballad or something?

 

[That 3DS Guy]

No: that's just the music they play when you get the answer wrong...

 

[Member]

Yoshian, I really doubt you'd be able to recover whatever you shoot up. It'd burn in the atmosphere probably.

People have recorded videos in space, and have recovered the footage. Here is a video for proof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWp4suB60fg

 

[ninjablooper]

The impression i got from that is that it took a lot of money. It' cheaper I'd assume to retrieve the footage by a wireless method

 

[Moclon]

Did anyone else notice that NintenDan liked all of the posts here.
I get it, THIS is the REAL point of this thread..

LIKE ME.
NINTENDAN, LIKE THIS POST.
CMON, YOU KNOW YOU LIKE IT!

Down here​

 

[KirbyZ]

, but seriously, Dan is on a liking spree ^_^ he just loves to boost the morale of his fellow members, that or he got really really bored.

About the topic at hand, NASA has so much stuff going on, they still need to figure out the best way to prevent space diarrhea. Space suits don't ever be the same after one of those explode at mid space.