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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/11/13/0042200
A couple of British experimenters have released a paper plane from 90.000 feet from a Helium balloon and recorded video and video from the craft as it glided safely back to Earth. This is the ultimate paper plane stunt, like the people that have sent up Helium balloons to great altitudes and record photographs of the Earth from that great height. Even though this was actually using some balsa wood to be able to be strong enough to hold the equipment attached to it and to glide from that height, it proves that a quite fragile craft can glide down from a huge altitude and survive. And this is supremely cool indeed. You could make a craft quite cheaply that could do the same thing, it is only difficult getting it up there in the first place. It seems easy in Star Trek to get into space, but it is overcoming the gravity of Earth that is the hard part indeed, and I would love to get into space myself with a small shuttle-craft, but that probably will not happen in my lifetime. I saw advertisements on television in the 80’s or early 90’s that showed a businessman returning to Earth from an appointment on a space station and talking to Earth control, negotiating a good approach route to return to his launch area. We all thought that we would have Star Trek styled cities and flying cars in 2000 after watching Beyond 2000, but it did not come to pass.