Re:This is hardly anything new (Score 5, Insightful)

Give them credit for creative problem-solving.

They get no credit for creative problem-solving when four teenagers in Spain did the same thing six months ago:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5005022/Teens-capture-images-of-space-with-56-camera-and-balloon.html