Its not the reason, but its a reason.
hglman
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Republican anti-abortion stance is to generate more displaced children for sex trafficking.
Balloons go to 12 miles all the time, they stay at whatever altitude they are neutrally buoyant at. The OP says hot air balloons, but if you ignore that requirement you can get a non propulsed balloon to 30 miles up. It doesn't just pop, it does leak slowly bc no bag is perfect.
Balloons using hydrogen can reach 33 miles. But even then the atmosphere still moves with the ground.
That does not answer the question. The balloon is not going to orbit, high atmospheric balloons exist and do not require propulsion.
The reason it won't work is because the atmosphere is coupled to the ground and rotates with the ground.
It also involves context; the post I replied to said it was not new. I simply noted that it occurred on slower days. My point being, you should check the dates of the source material for context. I made no judgment of the validity of that. You projected that. I agree with you It's fine to visit the past.
It's a 5-day old article; Lemmy loves those on Sunday.
And you don't understand why building a society based on gambling is a bad idea?
She once only made country music, and she has many conservative fans.
Mitigation is a spectrum not a binary outcome. Anyone arguing to not try does not understand the problem or is being dishonest.
So if a tool is involved, it's no longer ok? So, people with glasses cannot consume copyrighted material?
For the very rich, its extremely hard to know what they own, filing taxes allows them to hide all the details.