Title says it all. I am genuinely curious as to how an individual, or group of individuals could legally take, and hold possession of rogue technological devices violating US airspace, and turn a profit from the salvaged CCP junk.
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I was thinking a bit more simplistic. Balloons could maybe get tangled together somehow, lots of pointed razor blades, or razor wire...oops, it fall down...
Souvenir's to sell on ebay, and keep to show the grandkids, and impress based hotties...
Well , like kite fighting, you could glue broken glass to the tether. But still...trying to intersect two floating objects at that altitude with a ton of variables is near impossible. I'd suggest about 20 of them attached to a lawn chair, SCUBA gear, warm clothing and a 30-06 rifle and a box of ammo and hope for the best.
Interesting concept, but the world record for a manned hot air balloon is around 70,000ft. I don't know how high the CCP scrap balloon is, but I would estimate it at 100k ft. altitude.
Besides being illegal for people to fly a balloon that high, I don't think a manned flight would be feasible.
But, that's what this thread is trying to figure out.
“CCP” balloon is floating around 63k feet. Felix Baumgartener jumped from a balloon at 24 mi high or about 130,000’. It’s not illegal to fly a balloon that high. I have a friend who launches small weather balloons w cameras that hit 60-70k feet every so often. Then again, it took Felix a Red Bull endorsement and about 10M to make it happen. Look up the story.
https://twitter.com/rwapodcast/status/1621374590495723522?s=46&t=I7cFpw25NXD9n5K-Aloz3A