Early 2015
It was in a greek restaurant, next to a marina, in the town of Vlissingen (The Netherlands) that one brother told the other brother, and his father, and whomever listened at that very moment about his idea; his idea to release a balloon, to see it rise high into the stratosphere, almost to the edge of space, where it would explode and whatever it would have carried with it would drop back down to earth for him and whomever wanted to join him to retrieve.
“you had me at idea..” replied the brother. (or he thought it at least)
Science has always been a thing in our family. The hunger for knowledge and the amazement that accompanies learning how things work are shared by almost all of us. But these days we all live our lives and sometimes we forget about these things; we don’t seem the have the time to keep pursuing this wonderful amazement.