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Watch An iPad (And GoPro Camera) Survive A 100,000 Foot Drop
- moocow01 15y agoI would guess this was faked. Look at the video a couple seconds after it lands - seems like there is somebody walking right nearby. Also something sounds off about sending an object up into the upper atmosphere and it landing only 70 yards away.
- dare599z 15y agoThe 70 yards thing is entirely fishy. Compared to this video, where it dropped 20 miles away, yeah. I don't really believe it survived, and they replaced it with another. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wtXquYhY7wo#t=377s http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
- dotBen 15y agoTo be fair, it looks as though the guy is just stepping out of a car/truck as he says that it is 70 yards away. They probably just drove to a spot close to the signal of where the iPad landed and then started filming from there.
- gammarator 15y agoI think the "70 yards away" is how close they parked their vehicle once they found where it landed.
- tikhonj 15y agoWouldn't the iPad just hit terminal velocity pretty quickly, making most of the height of the drop relatively useless?
- thunfischbrot 15y agoTrue. Doesn't necessarily make it less impressive if true :)
- ElbertF 15y agoThe branches on the right disappear after the camera cuts away (I had to flip the image): http://i.imgur.com/a9qbm.png http://i.imgur.com/a9qbm.png
- pm90 15y agoI don't understand....what is the point of doing this?
- alf 15y agoIt looks like the GoPro and the remnants of the balloon helped it. The extra mass of the GroPro body allowed it to fall flat with the camera and ballon allowing it to spin on it's way down, like a maple seed. Also it looks like it landed on the aluminum side facing down with GroPro body hitting the ground first. Still pretty cool though.