Monday, March 7, 2011

Up and away


Ever wish you could reenact part of the movie "Up"?


Well, some folks at the National Geographic Channel did and with the help of a team of engineers and scientists they launched a 16' X 16' X 18' tall house into the air using 300, 8', multi colored weather balloons! 


Awesome.

More info here, National Geographic's website here.

7 comments:

k said...

what!! i need to go see if it fell! or what they would do if it did!

Brandi said...

I absolutely love that they did this! What fun it must have been to be part of this project! (Though in the end, I would have stayed on the ground.)

Tiffany Kadani said...

No way! This is so incredible!

Pistachio said...

Aww, I just watched UP over the weekend. LOVE that movie. I hate to say it, but it made me cry!

Love this.
Cheers!!

Ashlae said...

This is awesome! I watched UP for the first time a few weeks ago, and I cried my eyes out. It wasn't at all what I expected - it was better!

Maxabella said...

AWESOME! So inspiring to think that it could actually happen. Thanks for sharing. x

rooth said...

It could only be better if Russell was waving from the front porch.