Our PARIS becomes GLOBAL MEDIA SENSATION The Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) balloon mothership spaceplane project - named in homage to the socialite and inadvertent internet sensation of all our hearts - has finally won the recognition she always deserved. The plane, and our heroic Playmonaut, have made it onto the front page of the Telegraph, inside the …
Now everyone's getting in on PARIS themed items.
This afternoon (Thu 11/11 14:15) The Radio 4 Drama is of Col Joe Kittingers Balloon assisted High Altitude sky dives.
Maybe the playmonaut could chill out and tune in to hear how it was in the old days .....
Cheers MAC
University of East Anglia CRU reports that reckless use of shiny paper for space exploration is totally unjustified. That latest PARIS flight ‘green house’ outrage has caused *global temperatures to rise by a massive .00000000000000001 degrees over the next century.
*assuming paper based air traffic increases by the anticipated 2000% per year.
... personally I welcome our paper aviation overlords.
Good on the Reg for getting in the papers. The editors sexed up the story a bit .. like "the team then tracked the plane using GPS as it took an hour and a half to glide down" .. or .. "the paper plane glided back taking dozens of photographs".
But that's the big media for you. At least you got the publicity and hopefully more sponsors for Paris II
We were all there at the beginning and followed this through to the end, doesn't that give us all a warm fuzzy feeling?
Damn straight!
Well done again guys, maybe this will help in a small way to wake up Britain to doing great (and interesting) things again.
BTW has Jame May been in touch for his ManLab yet?
So let me get this straight - humankind has reached a zenith of global communications and near-speed-of-light connectivity for the masses, allowing electronic content in the form of emails, blog posts, twitter feeds, not to mention pictures and videos, of the spectacular PARIS project achievements to be delivered almost in real-time to anyone with an internet connection, anywhere round the globe...
But it takes the great British press fourteen days (14 days?! 2 weeks!!) to publish this as 'news'. This is not news, this is 'olds'.
No wonder I read The Register - all hail our vulturine scoop messengers!
Not surprised to see Daily Mail downplay this site, you think the least they could have done was give a link. But then people might start reading all those sceptical opinions and criticism and pee-taking of the Mail's stance.
No fraternity within (Fleet Street) journalism.
News?
We knew about this ages ago, just what's going on if the Fail isn't carping on about dirty students smashing up the home of democracy and 'all that is good and great'. Ah, either it's 'cos they recongise thier own kids on the demo or it's they never checked te 'PARIS' reference before reserving front page space.
Anyway - we feel just a bit smug as we read all about it here first and watched it live(ish) on Google Earth.
Saw it in the Telegraph* this morning about 6am (UK time). Had a little chuckle about the 'space enthusiasts', nowt much about El Reg being an IT news source...
Now, were you behind that 'phantom missile' over California the other day? Maybe not, as you've used up your beer and travel budget....
...Hey, wait a minute, has the 'playmonought' gone AWOL???
*http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8124611/Paper-aeroplane-launched-into-space-captures-breathtaking-images.html
The Telegraph online edition has the story in its Space section, jostling alongside discoveries of galaxies, space shuttle developments and other multi-billion dollar research projects. That's very good value in PR terms, and I expect The Reg to be inundated with enquiries from publicity-hungry science institutes worldwide.
That said, eight thousand quid seems a lot for a few sheets of paper, a packet of drinking straws and a balloon. Please can I be the procurement officer for the next project?
On the beeb, no mention of El Reg, just "amateur space enthusiasts".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/11734434
Thanks for that you c**ts.
I think the next step is to have an onboard cam and/or get it higher.
As for the acronym, Low Orbit Helium Ascent... Nnnsomethingsomething?
Put something into orbit guys, put something into orbit. Pwease?
Is that possible with a helium lifter? Perhaps some kind of a semi-rigid envelope?
Though the Mail seems to have failed to slap their own copyright message over your images - they must be having an off-day.
I do wonder about the particular shot the Telegraph used:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8124611/Paper-aeroplane-launched-into-space-captures-breathtaking-images.html
I mean, it was high enough to see the curvature of the Earth, but is it just me, or is the Earth being particularly awkward and curving the wrong way for that picture?
No way. It was obviously the fact that the plane got to such dizzy heights and the Plastic Pilot had had a bit too much 'dutch courage' and slumped over.
I see what you're saying, tho, but the ground's the thing, not the blue upper bits. Think you're seeing weather patterns, maybe...
But, as we know, the Earth can be particularly awkward. Gaia's like that, fickle minx...
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