Amid endless chaos they managed to string out a lost weather balloon for a whol week.
things ain't been the same since Balloon Boy broke our hearts
Analysts noted that "the missile exploded when it hit the balloon," which struck them as "unusual."
Analysts apparently forgot that air to air missiles use a variety of fuses to detonate just prior to impact to spray a cone of shrapnel through the delicate body of the target aircraft.
Doing an over water shootdown to maximize the damp squib factor
love to use one (1) balloon to send bombs overseas and then not even drop them
the best way to deliver a payload is in an unguided lighter-than-air craft that drifts with the wind and is visible to the naked eye.
Holy shit, i think "may" here doesn't even mean they think there were explosives on board, but rather that they could've been there. As in it is physically possible.
Apparently on it's way to start a war with the azores bc that's the next land mass after carolina.
:frothingfash: "The balloon was filled with hydrogen! The same element used in the most destructive weapons on the planet! We must respond in kind!"
Large floating ball of hydrogen that explodes? This was the prototype for China's Second Sun project
Quietly getting up and throwing away my laptop over this one.
It may have contained a first edition copy of A Tale of Two Cities, three rubber ducks, a slightly concussed mongoose, six expired condoms still in their packaging, a sachet of ketchup, a broken strimmer blade and the holy grail.
It didn't of course. But it may have.
Curiously enough, I actually have a first edition copy of A Tale of Two Cities, and much more than three rubber ducks. :thinkin-lenin:
Guess I'm a seeseepee agent after all
Well there ya go. They were just dropping off some stuff some of their agents left behind at the top secret meeting in the hollowed out volcano base.
The thing that’s scary is that it’s possible even though it wasn’t the case
Helium is inert. One of the noble gases.
Hydrogen and hydrogen + oxygen are explosive, though.
No you're wrong. Helium is explosive. It blew up the Hindenburg and also the Sun.
If helium isn't explosive then why does it make your voice sound funny?
You're thinking of hydrogen, or is something (other than balloon) going over my head here?
Brother they make stars out of hydrogen. Helium is a waste product of Being Goddamn Enormous And I Mean Huge.
Helium will still fuse tho. I think most stars collapse bc they can't fuse iron unless they big bois.
They go hydrogen -> helium -> lithium / carbon / oxygen / neon / silicon in some order or another and then explode when they hit iron since there's no more energy to gain by doing iron fusion. You still get some elements heavier than iron after the explosion though.
Most batteries are explosives, I'm guessing it charges some or is meant to charge some for overnight communication?
