damn teens - with their awesome science projects

so take four spanish teens (18-19 years old) and you give them a hundred bucks and what do they do? no they don't get smashingly drunk on a friday night. instead they buy a weather balloon and strap a digital camera and send it to space to take some awesome photos.

while i write as if i'm bitter about this (which i am a little - i wish i had done this - it's an awesome idea) i'm encouraged by the stuff that people are doing. i don't think it would have ever crossed my mind to try to do something like this when i was a senior in high school. of course google earth and digital cameras weren't around at the time, but that only dates me as having gone to secondary school in a "pre-digital" age. which my sister thinks is hilarious. she's never known a world with cellphones, digital cameras and google.

this is the sort of thing that i find inspiring, if a bunch of kids can do this... i need to get my act together and start doing some amazing stuff too.

[via the telegraph]