Touching the Edge of Space

Given everything going on right now, seems like a good time to share something a bit more uplifting. One of the very cool consequences of how small modern cameras have become is that it’s giving regular people the ability to reach out and touch the edge of space all on their own, via the old-school technology of balloons. I spent a good chunk of an afternoon just watching one “we stuck a GoPro on a weather balloon” video after another. They all look pretty much the same after a while, but there’s something compelling about seeing so many people decide on their own that they wanted to see the curvature of the Earth for themselves–rather than just watch other people’s YouTube videos of it. 😛