BLAST
July 20, 2009 1:59 PM Subscribe

A "Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope" ( BLAST) has made 2 science flights. The documentry Blast! is as much about science as it is about the crazy life of scientists.

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Sweden launch, Paul Devlin, the producer, has more video's on his You Tube site.

posted by kudzu (5 comments total) 3 users marked this as a favorite

PIXAR presents . . .
posted by The Bellman at 2:21 PM on July 20, 2009

I worked on the bolometer part of this experiment (well, related cosmic microwave background experiments) about a decade ago. Cool stuff.
posted by UrineSoakedRube at 2:25 PM on July 20, 2009

one of the reasons I became an engineer is that early on, I realized that engineers (and scientists) can get to do some really crazy stuff.
posted by djrock3k at 4:34 PM on July 20, 2009

the avclub review made me want to watch it :P

cheers!
posted by kliuless at 6:54 PM on July 20, 2009

man, it's fuckin' batshit up in here!

*goes back to making noodles*
posted by sergeant sandwich at 8:28 PM on July 20, 2009

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