#4833727

scoter man1

2014-06-05 18:07

That seems kind of weird and unnecessary.

#4833732

Extraordinary

2014-06-05 18:10

That explains the strange countdown to space website we saw the other week

#4833737

sykozis

2014-06-05 18:18

That seems kind of weird and unnecessary.

Seems a bit expensive too....

#4833746

BetA

2014-06-05 18:30

what a stupid idea?!?!?! Wasting money for what? proving that theyr chips survive space? (they do anyway.. ) go home AMD...that money could be spent way better...Pffff... Idiocrazy 2.0...

#4833748

Extraordinary

2014-06-05 18:32

How much does it cost to send a helium balloon up in the air? can't be that much They'll have got it all back at the end too

#4833751

scatman839

2014-06-05 18:40

How much does it cost to send a helium balloon up in the air? can't be that much They'll have got it all back at the end too

Like, $2000. http://www.nearspaceballooning.com/launch-1/ Pittance as far as avertising goes. They're sending it vertically into space, not orbit, orbit is expensive, that needs rockets.

#4833776

Veeshush

2014-06-05 19:01

The way they were leading up to the hype made it seem it was going to be used in some sort of satellite. http://ifitcanreachspace.com/

#4833815

lucidus

2014-06-05 19:28

This is as dumb as Mozilla using some guy in a windtunnel to show how awesome Australis is.

#4833824

Noisiv

2014-06-05 19:39

Seems a bit expensive too....

yeah, but mostly due to german beer

#4833945

---TK---

2014-06-05 22:09

why back?

#4833949

Extraordinary

2014-06-05 22:13

Like, $2000. http://www.nearspaceballooning.com/launch-1/ Pittance as far as avertising goes. They're sending it vertically into space, not orbit, orbit is expensive, that needs rockets.

Geez, $2k for essentially a balloon I reckon I could do that for way less, helium filled stretchy balloon and stuff I have around the house to film it and locate it when it lands / crashes

#4833956

IcE

2014-06-05 22:29

Waste of helium.

#4833964

Ch0plol

2014-06-05 22:48

Waste of helium.

Indeed. Helium should be rationed for research work since we're almost out and currently have no way to make more until we get fusion reactors worked out.

#4833966

scatman839

2014-06-05 22:52

Geez, $2k for essentially a balloon I reckon I could do that for way less, helium filled stretchy balloon and stuff I have around the house to film it and locate it when it lands / crashes

This is exactly what they did.

#4833991

BLEH!

2014-06-05 23:59

Indeed. Helium should be rationed for research work since we're almost out and currently have no way to make more until we get fusion reactors worked out.

Helium is really rather easy to come by, it's a byproduct of nuclear reactors, volcanoes (the earth is nuclear powered, effectively), it's in the atmosphere and we can condense it out quite easily.

#4834033

FerCam™

2014-06-06 00:49

Helium is really rather easy to come by, it's a byproduct of nuclear reactors, volcanoes (the earth is nuclear powered, effectively), it's in the atmosphere and we can condense it out quite easily.

Cool need it to MIG/MAG welding.

#4834035

sykozis

2014-06-06 00:52

yeah, but mostly due to german beer

German beer is probably what caused this idea.....lol

#4834069

Cave Waverider

2014-06-06 02:04

I personally feel they should've invested the money into their driver- and high-end hardware development instead. IF a big money contract with NASA or another spacefaring organization would emerge as consequence of this PR stunt, it will be worth it for AMD. And that may just lead to better products down the stretch.

#4834087

Lane

2014-06-06 02:55

YOu know that every recent Boeing use AMD GPU's ( embedded processors ) for the advanced display system of the pilots... You will be surprised what we find in some of the Nasa system. http://mil-embedded.com/news-id/?43563

#4835230

vbetts

Moderator

2014-06-08 03:22

Advertising, that's what it is gentlemen.