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RE: The Balloon
February 13, 2023 at 1:04 am
-and now a 4th.
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RE: The Balloon
February 13, 2023 at 9:17 pm
“I know there's been questions and concerns about this, but there is no — again, no — indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
https://news.yahoo.com/aliens-u-lack-sho...20198.html
So the last WH press conference was wholy devoted to balloons. Not one journalist asked about the spilling of toxic chemicals in Ohio, for example.
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February 13, 2023 at 9:34 pm
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February 13, 2023 at 9:43 pm
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RE: The Balloon
February 13, 2023 at 10:16 pm
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.
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RE: The Balloon
February 13, 2023 at 10:58 pm
The could've taped an iphone to it, thus making it capable of signals intelligence.
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RE: The Balloon
February 14, 2023 at 12:29 am
(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.
For what it’s worth, the original balloon, the one I call The Rover, has an estimated diameter of 200 feet. That volume would be closer to 118,613 cubic meters.
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RE: The Balloon
February 14, 2023 at 4:58 am
(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.
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RE: The Balloon
February 14, 2023 at 7:09 am
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(February 14, 2023 at 4:58 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (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.
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As an electronics engineer i agree. You can put a LOT of transistors into a 4lb ECU.
Batteries for a potential transmitter however..i mean, everyone could intercept and read your data (and thus know what you are interested in)...but maybe you wanna store your data on even more small transistors and read it out back home....IF your intention is to get the thing back home.....but how to get a balloon back home...
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RE: The Balloon
February 14, 2023 at 7:28 am
(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.
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