Students can't stomach another burger, send it into space instead

This is what higher education is all about: lofty ideas and junk food. Five Harvard students somehow managed to not eat a hamburger for a couple of days and then, when it was nice and hard, attached it to a high-altitude balloon and sent it where no solitary burger has gone before (sure, astronauts chow down on burgers, but this bun was all on its lonesome). The impressive images, captured by the camera that accompanied the burger on its trip, show this object of universal desire floating serenely in space, provoking awe and hunger simultaneously. 

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