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Military tracking high-altitude balloon flying over Western U.S. (cbsnews.com)
25 points by bison3 846 days ago
5 comments
_whiteCaps_ 846 days ago
These balloons are launched all of the time by radio amateurs: https://amateur.sondehub.org/#!mt=Voyager&mz=5&qm=12h&mc=42....
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tonetegeatinst 844 days ago
How high do hot air balloons go? And I'm wondering what dropoff a air rifle has.

Hot air balloon + the Milwaukee leaf blower is USAF new budget request

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lupire 845 days ago
This is a weird URL because it is "news" but applies equally well to very old events, so it seems ambiguous as a resource locator.
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exabrial 846 days ago
Man, these balloons remind me of the modified SM-3 that shot down a satellite... you know... because safety.
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martinky24 846 days ago
In… what way? Are you suggesting the balloon is the SM-3? Or that we should fire SM-3’s at these balloons?

Or just that these are two military events, so they’re similar?

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jprd 846 days ago
OK, which HN'er did this?
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