Posted on 10/07/2019 7:44:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
Suggested: Perfect launch site, the US Capital building!
Fuel is abundant.
Interesting topic. Which brings us to
your Ear-Worm of the Day;
“99 Luftballons”, a song by Nena!
How about the top of Mt Everest or Mt McKinley? Or is that not enough to matter?
Interesting!
They stole my idea; I was talking about this 20 years ago.
Using balloons, instead of satellites, would work around the problem of the junk accumulating in low earth orbit. Maybe one day we won’t have a choice; it’s getting to be a terrible mess up there.
I remember when PM had great ideas.
Long gone.
How big of a hot air balloon do you need to lift a fully loaded and fueled rocket?
REALLY, really, really big.
NASA Glenn Research Center Balloon Mission Launch
The mission shown here was the Stratospheric Terahertz Observatory (STO), launched on January 15, 2012 from Antarctica. It studied large dense molecular clouds in the southern sky of the Milky Way.
Lots of videos...satellite balloon launch
Crashes too...
Huge NASA Science Balloon Crashes in Australian Apr 30, 2010
Note the dates.
Pelosi is full of hot air.
Too cold......................
How about the top of Mt Everest or Mt McKinley?
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Are there roads and utilities going to the tops of those mountains?
Rockoons again? 1955 all over again...
AOC here is your answer for carbon free air travel!
I have always wondered about using balloons to clean up Mt. Everest.
Yes, but these are civilian entrepreneurs ..................
What can’t they just throw the trash down the side and collect it at the bottom?................./s
There could be.
how do you heat air at 100K ft?
Same idea with an airplane.
” As Stratolaunch Systems Corp. has rolled its super-massive aircraft out of the hangar during the last year and performed some ground-based tests, there has been one big unanswered question—what is the purpose of building the largest airplane in the world”
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