You can file this under the 'why the hell not' category.
A British novelist Nikesh Shukla and graphic artist Nick Hearne decided it would be a great idea to attach a tandoori lamb chop to a helium balloon and send the meat into space from London. Why? Who knows but a video camera went along for the ride and captured some strangely amazing video of the journey.
The lamb chop traveled for just over an hour and a half and made it about 32,000 feet before the balloon burst and sent it plummeting to the earth, according to
GPS contact was severed and Shukla and Hearne thought the footage was lost forever.
Lucky for them, five months later they were contacted by a farmer in Dorset who found the video and now the lamb chop flight is here for all of us to enjoy!
The experiment was to promote Shukla's new book, Meatspace.
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