Humankind has been fascinated with space since forever, and as soon as we realized we could start sending things up there ¡ª be it animal, toy or food ¡ª we did. And this British restaurant owner took this a notch up, by trying to send a Samosa to space - for reasons no one knows.?
A restaurant in Britain attempted to send a samosa and a wrap "to space" by using weather balloons and it almost succeeded, before it crash-landed in France.
Niraj Gadher, the owner of Chai Walla, used weather balloons filled with helium to send the samosa and wrap to space.?
He said that he had always joked about sending a samosa into space and he figured that everyone could do with a laugh, according to a report by?Somserset Live.
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The first time, the balloon slipped out of their hands. The second time, they ran out of helium. Turns out, it?was?third time lucky for the group.
A video shared on YouTube shows Mr Gadher and his friends launching the?samosa?into space, after attaching it to a weather balloon outfitted with a GoPro camera and a GPS tracker.?
The group watched as it travelled high up into the sky.? However, the GPS malfunctioned when it went up in space and Gadher lost track of his samosa. Later, he found out that it had crashed into a field in France.?
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"The package had a parachute and was made of very light plastic so if there had been a problem it would have just floated down to earth," he said.??
Niraj and his friend took to Instagram to check if people living in the area could track the samosa.
An Instagram user by the name of AxelMathon went to hunt for it, and found the balloon, GPS tracker and GoPro camera in a field in Picardie in Northern France, but the samosa and the wrap had disappeared.?
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In 2001, Pizza Hut became the first company to make a delivery into space when, through an odd turn of events, they struck a deal with the Russian space agency Roscosmos to have a pizza delivered to the International Space Station (ISS). Russian cosmonaut Yuri Usachov was the lucky recipient and enjoyed the Earthly delicacy.?
"Really until I got here, I couldn't believe it," he was quoted as saying by a local news website. "And actually when I looked up I saw the burst helium balloon in the trees. and I found this polystyrene box well packed.?It was a bit like a treasure hunt, I thought it was crazy!"
They assumed that the snacks had become dinner for some wild animals.