Wow, now this is a banana worth observing.

spacebanana.jpg

Argentine-born, Montreal-based artist Cesar Saez’s latest project is an ambitious one: at the cost of approximately one million dollars, he plans to inflate a gigantic banana with helium and float it over Texas—specifically, 20-30 miles above the Earth. He and his team of scientists, engineers and volunteers have been at work for years and plan to float the massive fruit sometime next summer.

spacebanana2.jpg

The project is called “Geostationary Banana Over Texas
This makes me happy.

Read more and watch video
via [Boing Boing]