To proudly go where no plushie has gone before.
A British tech company dropped a stuffed animal from the Earth’s stratosphere — and are hoping they broke a world record.
Emy, a fluffy, 9-ounce, yellow and green creature, traveled 116,419 feet over Kingston, NY, on March 4 via a high-altitude balloon and gently fell back to earth after the balloon popped.
The stunt was orchestrated by Raspberry, an app maker based in the UK.
The plushie landed intact in a tree in Windsor, Connecticut, Raspberry CEO Sachin Raoul said.
He told The Post that Emy was submitted to World Record Certification Agency for the record of highest altitude a plushie has reached aboard a high altitude balloon, and that the company was waiting to hear the results.
The Instagram page documenting Emy’s adventures has amassed more than 1 million followers and has been seen by over 65 million people, according to Instagram.
Some observers speculated Emy may have been barbecued in her return trip, but she wasn’t incinerated during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere because of her low density and slow maximum speed, according to Harvard theoretical physicist Avi Loeb.
“Meteors of this size burn up because they collide with Earth at a speed that is a thousand times larger, dissipating a million times more heat as the air slows them down. This energy release creates a fireball that burns them up [but] the stuffed animal can survive the journey,” Loeb said.
The stunt was orchestrated by Raspberry Circle, which originally developed Emy as an AI companion, but began dropping a real-world version of the “minipet” from increasingly higher elevations to inspire young people to spend more time outdoors. The company drops the doll one millimeter for each new Instagram follower amassed.
“After the birth of my daughter in August, I just really noticed how screens just put our brains in a comatose state and it really scared me,” Raoul said
The WRCA did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
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