Donuts -- in -- space!!!!

[CalMeacham]

Goodbye, cruller world: the first doughnut in space is surprisingly tragic

On April 9, 2015, a couple of Swedes made history by sending a doughnut into space.

The video shows how they attached both a camera and a doughnut to a weather balloon, and then sent the balloon 20 miles up (32 kilometers). That took the doughnut beyond the stratosphere — though, technically, this isn’t considered outer space, which starts 62 miles (100 km) above Earth. The balloon later landed in the water, where the pastry was recovered by the Swedish Sea Rescue Society and returned it to the group.

The beautiful journey shows the blue magnificence of Earth’s oceans, the haze of light playing upon the atmosphere’s edge, and the incredible endurance of the doughnut’s colorful sprinkles. Yet somehow, it’s bittersweet. Though the video shows the beauty of both the doughnut and this blue marble we call home, it also serves as a poignant farewell from pastry to planet.

But then it fell back to Earth, so the Swedes ate it

[johnpost]

mmm donuts. is there anything they can’t do?

[Northern_Piper]

In honour of this great achievement, I am off to Tim’s for a doughnut and coffee.

[Doctor_Jackson]

There seems to be a hole in the process…

[Fool_in_the_Rain]

That’s a hole new way of looking at the sprinkled landscape of the world.

[G0sp3l]

pssshaw! Pikers! Here’s a real achievement

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

“Well, a doughnut like that, you don’t eat all at once.”

[Malthus]

So someone put Homer Simpson in charge of the space program now?

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

Very cool. But unsecured gas cylinders make me twitchy.

I felt bad for donut when it fell.

[bobot]

That the Swedish Sea Rescue Society said: “Oh yeah, we’ll totally help rescue your donut.” makes me proud to have some Swedish lineage. (Is that the equivalent of the Coast Guard?)

[Dewey_Finn]

@Malthus

So someone put Homer Simpson in charge of the space program now?

If Homer Simpson was involved, the donut would have been eaten rather than being wasted in a stunt.

[Don_t_Panic]

@bobot

That the Swedish Sea Rescue Society said: “Oh yeah, we’ll totally help rescue your donut.” makes me proud to have some Swedish lineage. (Is that the equivalent of the Coast Guard?)

Well, it was the Sea Rescue Station in Åmål. It’s not like anything ever f***ing happens there anyway.

The 1998 film Fucking Åmål (known in the English-speaking world as Show Me Love), directed by Lukas Moodysson, is set in Åmål. The movie depicts the town as extremely boring and eventless.

So I imagine that they jumped at the chance for some space donut action.

[Coriolanus]

Careful! They’re ruffled

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

That’s one small step for a doughnut, one giant leap for pastrykind.

[Senegoid]

They ate the donut because donuts don’t have sleeves?

[InsomniaMama]

Truly an achievement the likes of which one does not see every day. So pretty!

[Sunspace]

Cool! I like the part where it falls past the contrail and you see the contrail beside the camera and its shadow below…

Which brings me to a question: do they have to get any sort of clearance from air traffic control before doing this?

[Cabin_Fever_1]

@Sunspace

Cool! I like the part where it falls past the contrail and you see the contrail beside the camera and its shadow below…

Which brings me to a question: do they have to get any sort of clearance from air traffic control before doing this?

The answer is YES. All current/modern Air Traffic Control systems have been on High Alert for donuts falling from the sky for a least 5 years now.
The main threat is from pilots (both commercial and private) is from diverting their plane to chase these down in order to see if they were chocolate or vanilla-filled.