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Lego man in space moves the Web


Two teens from Toronto successfully launched a Lego figure into near space -- and launched a storm of interest on the Web. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, 17-year-old classmates at Agincourt Collegiate Institute, took four months, many Saturdays, and $400 to carry a Lego figurine and four cameras miles above the earth, a project that the two did for fun, not for class. "We didn't really believe we could do it until we did," Ho told the Toronto Star. You can see the video they made, using the stunning photos of the Lego man 78,000 feet off the ground, in the post above. The clip of the Lego man in near space has gone viral, with 570,000 views and counting.  Searches on Yahoo! for "lego man in space" have soared 325% in just one day. The high school students, both seniors, were inspired by a video of a similar project undertaken by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


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