Military tracking high-altitude balloon flying over Western U.S.
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#2OK, which HN'er did this?
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#3Man, these balloons remind me of the modified SM-3 that shot down a satellite... you know... because safety.
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#4These balloons are launched all of the time by radio amateurs:
https://amateur.sondehub.org/#!mt=Voyager&mz=5&qm=12h&mc=42....
Re: Military tracking high-altitude balloon flying over Western U.S.
#5Man, these balloons remind me of the modified SM-3 that shot down a satellite... you know... because safety.
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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#6This 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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#7How 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