(February 13, 2023 at 10:16 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Let’s be honest, no balloon the size of a small car can possibly carry any substantial intelligence package. A balloon’s carrying capacity must necessarily be less than the weight of a volume of air at the balloon’s operating altitude equal to the size of the balloon itself
A balloon the size of a small car, say 10 cubic meters, would therefore have a carrying capacity at 40k feet of 4 lbs minus the weight of balloon itself.
I'm not an electronics engineer, but it seems that you could pack a fair bit of microminiaturization into a four lb (or slightly smaller) payload.
Boru
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