Argentinian-born artist Cesar Saez is building a giant banana, to be filled with helium and floated in a geostationary orbit over Texas:
Basically, the banana will be constructed like a blimp. Filled with helium, it will float between 30 and 50 km up in the sky. It will have a semi-rigid structure made of bamboo and a skin made with synthetic paper. Thanks to extra load in gas and a valve system, it will keep its shape at all times. The final size of the piece will be 300 meters in length. The expected launching date is August 2008 from around Baja or Sonora, north-west of Mexico. The total costs for this project is roughly estimated at one million dollars.
Link - via [flasher] and Boing Boing
--TwoDragons
Actually a geostationary orbit is a geosynchronous orbit directly above the equator at a altitude of 36,000 km.
Neither of which this project will be able to do.
I'm calling BS on the whole project. It'll never do what they say.
let $$$ for the needy be taken off bogus military spending
let's all in the first world remember the third world that grows and ships alot of our foodstuffs.
Yeah, you understand why: a lot of them forgot their foil hat.
Anyway, looks like a fun hoax to me.
and the whole thing sounds like a waste of time, although relatively spectacular with they actually do it
you like that big banana in your sky, Tex?
I'm concerned, however, that when the banana falls it
may hurt someone.
This has been around for nearly 2 years but boingboing can make anything "new" again.
Not only that, but Neatorama reported this last December.
this is one Texan who wont be looking up for a while.