Escape Vehicle no.6 presents the journey of a domestic chair from the earth to the edge of space. The film started as a live event in a disused aircraft testing site. The live audience first witnessed the launching of a weather balloon with a domestic chair dangling in beneath it. Once the apparatus had disappeared into the sky they then watched a live video relay from the weather balloon as it journeyed from the ground to the edge of space (30km up).
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So ahhhh, why did the chair fall apart at the end?
excatly what I was thinking and what a panoramic view it did right at the end
… and where did the chair pieces land after it broke up?
Space turbulence? I didn’t understand the chair breaking up either.
at such a high altitude, the metal in the chair got very cold and brittle (because it wasn’t manufactured to sustain such low temperatures)…any turbulence in the upper atmosphere would have created enough stress on the metal to start breaking it apart.
That’s my guess, anyway. Can anybody come up with something better?
Wait a second! You mean to tell me that the metal on the chair got so frozen up and brittle that it broke? WHAT ABOUT THE CAMERA?!?!?!
Different types of metal(if, in fact, the camera was made out of metal…)have different freeze temperatures? It’d be a safe bet that the camera did not make it to landing.
Besides, legs on metal chairs are usually made out (roughly) 18-16 gauge of tubular aluminum, or some other light-weight metals (and usually hollow). On a camera, whatever metal is there isn’t hollow.
Still sticking with my explanation. 😉
I have friends in Massachusetts who have ruined TWO cameras in the trunk of their cars because it got too cold, and their aluminium furniture in the backyard didn’t suffer anything. I still don’t buy it.
This was originally a Toshiba HD camera commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMFkYhKQBUI&feature=related
Duuude-
As you can see from the video, the chair is getting whipped around pretty viciously, while the camera seems to be mounted in a fairly static manner. Under such dynamic forces as 1) sub-zero temperatures and 2) torque created by the winds of the upper stratosphere, the chair is under more stress than the camera. The camera is static-mount, while the chair is hanging by ropes. Which is more sturdy? Which is under more strain? How much strain is your friend’s yard furniture under? Nothing, compared to the chair in the video.
I’m STILL sticking with my explanation! 😉
I wanna see them doing that with a Buick LeSabre.
So my Lay-Z Boy Space Chair idea isn’t going to work then.
Bollocks.
Maffu….you never know unless you try it. 😉
The chair probably broke the welds that hold the legs on.