High altitude ballooning on Canadian TV

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The Canadian TV series, Les Pieds dans la Marge, had a successful adventure in high altitude ballooning, rising to a lofty 92,303 feet above the earth. That's well into the near-space atmospheric region - their cameras captured some really amazing photos!

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  • Check out the Hi-res photo gallery - Link
  • Watch the full episode (174mb divx file) - Link
  • Les Pieds dans la Marge on Radio-Canada.ca - Link

Sadly they reported no signs of our old buddy AHAB -

Related:

AHAB High Altitude Ballooning - Best of Weekend Projects - Link



The Ahab Search Continues! - Link

Posted by Collin Cunningham | Mar 4, 2008 01:00 PM
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Posted by: mattyfu on March 4, 2008 at 4:55 PM

so...when is MAKE: going to make a AHAB shirt? Maybe a milk carton missing child type thing, I guess that make anger some people, how about a characature of it over the heart and the text "AHAB lives on in our hearts".
1 year anniversary?


Posted by: JS on March 5, 2008 at 4:18 PM

Sorry ! My .mac account is dead because of to much trafic so no more picts and no more video

Sorry again

jsbusque@pixcom.com


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