With all this talk about i-Pad durability and bowling balls being dropped over the Salt Flats, nobody has bothered to note how durable the video camera was that accompanied the i-Pad and G-Force packaging to the earth. As far as I can tell, the camera had no particular packaging on it, but it survived the fall and kept on recording events after earthly impact. Now that's one tough camera!! --- On Sat, 1/7/12, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] iPad free fall from "edge of space" To: "utah astronomy listserve utah astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Saturday, January 7, 2012, 1:56 AM While the denser air at lower altitudes would have slowed it considerably, I wonder how fast it was falling higher up. I remember that when Col. Kittinger made his jump from a similar altitude he was falling supersonic before the thicker air slowed him down. http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/01/g-form-extreme-edge-ipad-case/ patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php