• TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    To reach orbit you need to accelerate to over 16,000 miles per hour and leave the atmosphere. A balloon can’t rise above the point of neutral buoyancy, which is necessarily inside the atmosphere (i.e. not in space).