Matt Campbell and friends decided to find out the answer to that very question, and last week managed to try it out for real, by putting a tiny camcorder in a model rocket, looking down at Earth.

The results are rather nice - shooting away from Earth, you don’t expect the speed to be quite that.. well, speedy.

Campbell has posted videos of their exploits on the Camcorder Rocket Project homepage, where you can also read about events leading up to the tests. The group also had a second day of launches just two days ago.

The project was also the ‘Video of the Week’ on CamcorderInfo.com, where there’s also an interview with Mr Campbell.

Interesting? Sure. Crazy? Definitely.

CVS Camcorder Rocket Project (cheers to Make Blog)