# Nerd cool, Dad and 7 yr old send iphone into space **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 8, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerd-cool-dad-and-7-yr-old-send-iphone-into-space/556549 "2010-10-08T23:41:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerd-cool-dad-and-7-yr-old-send-iphone-into-space/556549/1 "2010-10-08T23:41:10Z")
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ygreen/20101...tyourselfstyle](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ygreen/20101...tyourselfstyle) So cool, the included video rocks. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerd-cool-dad-and-7-yr-old-send-iphone-into-space/556549/2 "2010-10-09T00:23:47Z")
“Page not found.” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerd-cool-dad-and-7-yr-old-send-iphone-into-space/556549/3 "2010-10-09T01:46:57Z")
Link was abridged. [Here ya go.](http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/10/father-and-son-film-outer-space-do-it-yourself-style.php) ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerd-cool-dad-and-7-yr-old-send-iphone-into-space/556549/4 "2010-10-09T02:26:30Z")
Wow, that is cool! ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerd-cool-dad-and-7-yr-old-send-iphone-into-space/556549/5 "2010-10-09T02:46:49Z")
Simply amazing. I had quite a reaction to that. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerd-cool-dad-and-7-yr-old-send-iphone-into-space/556549/6 "2010-10-09T13:28:09Z")
Typical liberal, pinko propaganda - once again trying to prove the world is round instead of flat. ---
**Author:** ![Silophant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Silophant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silophant)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerd-cool-dad-and-7-yr-old-send-iphone-into-space/556549/7 "2010-10-09T17:27:37Z")
This is cool. I actually do this as my internship with the Minnesota Space Grant Ballooning team. Our website’s borked right now, but if anyone’s interested, I can work on getting some of our videos and pictures to a place where you can see them. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerd-cool-dad-and-7-yr-old-send-iphone-into-space/556549/8 "2010-10-09T18:33:45Z")
Has any amateur rocketeer team ever launched something into orbit? I’m guess that even for a 1 lb. payload you probably need 10,000 pounds of rocket, or thereabouts. Yes, I know about the likes of Bert Rutan, I’m alluding to more of a bare-bones project. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerd-cool-dad-and-7-yr-old-send-iphone-into-space/556549/9 "2010-10-11T02:24:23Z")
I think this project is not nearly nerdy-cool enough. [This amateur space launch](http://www.zug.com/live/86012/First-Rickroll-in-Space-Part-3.html) conforms to a seven point nerd quota. (Although it is clearly inferior in terms of both video quality and sentimentality.) ---
**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerd-cool-dad-and-7-yr-old-send-iphone-into-space/556549/10 "2010-10-11T08:57:50Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Has any amateur rocketeer team ever launched something into orbit? I’m guess that even for a 1 lb. payload you probably need 10,000 pounds of rocket, or thereabouts. Yes, I know about the likes of Bert Rutan, I’m alluding to more of a bare-bones project. Well - [these guys](http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/) are actually trying to launch a _person_ into space. Sub-orbital though. It is as low-budget as possible and quite a crazy endeavour.