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Why not?

Add a fin to a baloon and you can steer it.

And once the baloon can hold direction in the wind with the help of the fin, you can add sail to actually get some propulsion in direction other than wind.


The balloon moves with the wind. You cannot steer it because from the point of view of the balloon it is not moving.

There is no keel on a balloon. Without a keel, one is only going downwind.


> from the point of view of the balloon it is not moving.

Mind == blown*

*Sincere, but pun intended


I think you should be able to on a wind current boundary


Wind is still flowing over the balloon and able to generate a steering force.


No, as Walter said, it's moving with the wind, i.e. it has the same speed as the wind. It's only if there's a sudden gust that you would see anything flowing over the balloon. I took part in a balloon experiment a couple of years back, essentially a weather balloon with several cameras, including one pointing upwards - we could watch (after we retrieved the cameras later) hours with footage of the balloon itself. There were various loose threads etc, and I assure you - there wasn't much movement! Occasionally there would be a little gust, when that happened the payload would swing around a little bit, but for the most part it was very quiet. Particularly at the highest altitudes.


Forgot to include: We had microphones up there too! It was literally quiet.



The problem at 60k feet is actually you are above the weather and don't have a ton of wind to work with. Moving up and down in the minor wind currents is far more efficient energy wise and practically.


Next week?


http://silelis.com projectors and http://snaige.lt refrigerators are the first ones that come to mind.


Are they made in PRC though?


SNAIGĖ makes everything locally in their Alytus factory.

Haven't heard about Šilelis before, but it does seem like a new company bought the trademark to sell repackaged junk from China.



-70C can be expected in Arctic.


Not in sea water:

> Deep ocean water has a very uniform temperature, around 0-3 °C

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ocean_water


If it's on the surface for an extended period of time, presumably upper elements of the hull could reach that temp?


Even exposed portions of the hull can be expected to not reach equilibrium with surface air. There will still be liquid water splashing around and also conduction from the warmer parts of the hull. Maybe the sail surface could get much colder but I doubt that it's subject to impact hazard under these conditions.


Possible, but that is also the time when the hull is under the least amount of stress.

So maybe they are worried about sitting on the surface of the Arctic in the dead of winter for an extended period of time and then crash diving?


Subs come to the surface though.


And in this particular case the underlying text is visible even with naked eye.


Strictly speaking every 10m under water increases pressure by one bar. So elastic bag 10m under water would take up 2x less space.


Actually steam and fog are different things. Fog is already condensed steam that consists of small water droplets. This technology captures the condensed water droplets and at this point no no extra latent energy from steam is released.


These types of attack are known as Van Eck phreaking

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking


I always assumed that Van Eck phreaking was exclusively about monitor buffers, but it seems to also include this kind of bus-centered data transfer.


Apparently ballpoint pen manufacturing requires some precision technology - China acquired it only in 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/18...


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