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[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is dumb as shit. Hot air balloons only go so high, less than 70k feet according to records. They only stay aloft if the heat is continually applied, if not, air cools and they sink. They move with the air, and the air moves with the planet.

This doesn’t work for the same reason jumping in an airplane doesn’t slam you into the back wall.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

I don't think it was posted because it was brilliant…

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sig figs!!

70k ft = 21 km

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Ok but they're going really really high up

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but anon smart, u dumb. Checkmate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Balloons using hydrogen can reach 33 miles. But even then the atmosphere still moves with the ground.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

World view reaches 100k feet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Isn’t that helium though?