Take a chair (like the one I had in school ^^), attach it to one of these very expensive meteo balloon with a HF video camera, send everything in space and see what’s happening. The video is a 40 minutes sequence shot, from the ground up to the stratosphere — until the balloon explodes and everything breaks down. They didn’t find anything back.

Just a sneek peak:

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I’ve seen this video the other day in an small event organized by the Arts Catalyst, it’s called Escape vehicle #6 and was made by Simon Faithfull. Simple yet powerful idea… and realized.