Michelin-star meals served on the edge of space for $130,000 could become a reality next year, reported CNN. A space tourism venture, Zephalto, founded by former air traffic controller Vincent Farret d’Astiès, is currently selling “pre-reservation tickets” for upcoming trips in a pressurised capsule, dubbed Celeste, attached to a stratospheric balloon. The company is keen that chefs “offer something that is refined and elevated” during the trips.
Solar balloons ‘detect unexpected sounds’
Huge solar balloons sent 70,000 feet up in the air to record sounds of Earth’s stratosphere picked up some unexpected sounds, reported Washington Post. Daniel Bowman, principal scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, said “we have recorded surface and buried chemical explosions, thunder, ocean waves colliding, propeller aircraft, city sounds, suborbital rocket launches, earthquakes, and maybe even freight trains and jet aircraft,” adding that “we’ve also recorded sounds whose origin is unclear”.
Tourist board defends Bradford
The Yorkshire tourist board has “come out swinging” to defend Bradford after the city was been named the UK’s gloomiest place to live as it gets the least amount of sunshine anywhere in the country. “The vitality of Bradford is hard to ignore,” a spokesperson told the Daily Star. However, a local was less supportive, writing on Tripadvisor that, in 2021, Bradford was used as a substitute for 1930s Glasgow during the filming of the Channel 5 TV show All Creatures Great and Small.
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