A company wants to use an advanced balloon to fly customers from Earth's surface in Alaska to the highest reaches of the planet's atmosphere.
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So they’re going to end up in the Gulf of Alaska? is that due to the thousand miles an hour spin of the Earth because Alaska is 2700 miles wide and the Gulf of Alaska is 500 miles a total of 3200 miles at a thousand miles an hour for a 6 hour flight would put them way past that or do they just know that the winds are always blowing that way?
Surely they know 😆
Draw a circle 8″ in diameter that represents our planet at a scale of 1″ = 1000 miles. On top of it place a quarter inch high equilateral triangle the apex of which represents the ISS. From ISS with a 60 degree lens pointing straight down you can capture a 250 mile wide square of earth, represented by the base of the triangle. The balloon reaches a height of 300 km or 180 miles. It is 0.18 inch above our circle. The lens captures 180 miles in its view. Videos that purport to show half, three-quarters or all of the planet in the background are simulated or are images that are stitched together with a computer program. Passengers in the balloon will see much less than expected. You need to be 4000 miles away from the surface to capture the entire earth with our lens.
Oh that looks perfectly safe. LOL
At least there is no corona up there
Yes it is called the sun…
Yet there will still be social distancing, and a Covid surcharge 😆
Cool
I want to see space
That’s stupid air balloons are unpredictable 😱
Omg
First trip goes to those who have adopted the flat earth philosophy 😆
Cgi bs