Those Treyarch "Goes to Space" post were originally posted on Facebook. Here are the full versions of those posts - https://www.facebook.com/Treyarch
https://twitter.com/Treyarch/status/454662398297665537/photo/1
"Treyarch Goes to Space
Treyarch is fortunate to count its team of engineers as a world-class group – and they need to be. After all, they’re the ones figuring out how to deliver an online experience to millions of Call of Duty fans. It turns out that they also possess the technical know-how to put a monkey into space – or at least in this case, a weather balloon.
We caught up with Johan Kohler (Principle Software Engineer) to talk about a side-project, involving fellow Treyarch colleagues Stephen Crowe (Senior Software Engineer) and Martin Donlon (Director of Technology).
KOHLER:
Sometime during the development of Call of Duty: World at War, I was sharing an office with Martin and we saw this guy’s first flight:http://www.natrium42.com/halo/flight2/. Keep in mind, this was pretty original at the time – no one was really doing this kind of stuff. It didn’t take too long before we started thinking, wouldn’t it be cool to have a picture of the bent horizon with black sky? Martin and another colleague of ours did the research and helped get our first launch off the ground – the picture below was the result of our second and most recent launch. It’s been a lot of fun.
Of course, after doing something like this, we’ve been tinkering with the idea of taking it to a new level. We could get some 6 1080p cameras (http://www.hackhd.com/) and have one in each direction so that we can assemble the final shots into a 360 surround movie of the whole flight. Or we could rig an RC chopper with a APRS transceiver to fly over the area the balloon landed so we get an exact location. We could even engineer a small glider plane that’s dropped from the balloon high up and navigates back to the launch position automatically – UAV sort of thing.
Who knows where this could take us? For now, we’re having fun with it."
And the Jimmy Moon Tweet was regarding the "Blood Moon" which is a Lunar Eclipse which happened on Tuesday (In Australia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_eclipse
"A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes directly behind the Earth into its umbra (shadow). This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned (in "syzygy") exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle. Hence, a lunar eclipse can only occur the night of a full moon. The type and length of an eclipse depend upon the Moon's location relative to its orbital nodes.
Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a certain relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of the Earth. A lunar eclipse lasts for a few hours, whereas a total solar eclipse lasts for only a few minutes at any given place, due to the smaller size of the moon's shadow. Also unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses are safe to view without any eye protection or special precautions, as they are dimmer than the full moon."