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To: White Lives Matter

“Hey guys we went 50 miles in the air”

You could have just used a big balloon.


8 posted on 07/11/2021 9:55:35 AM PDT by struggle
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To: struggle

For comparison, Alan Shepard went 116 miles up on America’s first manned space flight in a Mercury Redstone in 1961.


15 posted on 07/11/2021 10:02:38 AM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder. )
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To: struggle

“You could have just used a big balloon.”

Flunk 9th grade science?


16 posted on 07/11/2021 10:02:39 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: struggle

Up Up and Away
https://youtu.be/5akEgsZSfhg
Love this song.


21 posted on 07/11/2021 10:05:37 AM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/zNLpfEDliV0)
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To: struggle

The world record for manned balloons is 22,000 feet, that’s about 4.1 miles.

Branson just went up 53 miles.


26 posted on 07/11/2021 10:08:14 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: struggle

Balloons don’t go that high.


32 posted on 07/11/2021 10:13:09 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: struggle

Bull, a balloon might get you 30 miles up maybe a little more but no way are you going 50/60 miles up in a balloon.


57 posted on 07/11/2021 11:59:36 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: struggle

Not only that but isn’t this a capitalistic under taking?


77 posted on 07/11/2021 1:33:26 PM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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