‘The first protest in space’ takes aim at Trump

Published April 13, 2017 11:05pm ET



A group calling itself the Autonomous Space Agency Network launched a weather balloon high into the atmosphere carrying a message directed at President Trump in what it is calling “the first protest in space.”

A two-and-a-half-hour video posted to YouTube this week shows the weather balloon making its journey from Earth’s surface carrying what appears to be a mock-up of a tweet with the message: “@realDonaldTrump LOOK AT THAT, YOU SON OF A BITCH.” Technically not in outer space, the balloon reached the second layer of Earth’s atmosphere, called the stratosphere.

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