@@Hans-gb4mv at that altitude, should anything go wrong, the passengers will instantly pass out due to the lack of oxygen or freeze into an icicle due to the extreme low temperature. When Felix Baumgartner, aka the Fearless Felix, jumped from 135000 feet back to the ground, he was in an air-tight fully pressurized suit that's similar to a space suit. He is also a professional skydiver and went through extensive training for that jump. A untrained person on a tourist ballon will die so quickly in this situation and parachute or not isn't gonna save him.
And they poo poo spacex for being overly expensive at 55 million, but deceptively dont say that its for actual orbit and to the ISS, also flash the headline not giving you time to read that its for 3 people! which is incredibly cheap!!!
That female spokesperson sounds a little sleazy. She states that hydrogen is so safe, even though it's highly flammable. Her stating balloons are perfectly safe is a little Disingenuous.
Keep in mind, the Hindenburg was coated with a super flammable skin. Most of the fire you see in the crash was not from the hydrogen, but from the diesel fuel... the burning hydrogen rose up into the air. The hydrogen only burned because it mixed with air (in these balloons, the hydrogen doesn't mix with the outside air). And even in the Hindenburg disaster, two thirds of the people survived. Oh, and the Hindenburg was not designed to use hydrogen... it was designed to use helium, but the United States refused to sell helium to the nazis so they had to switch to hydrogen. Had it been floated with helium, the disaster would not have happened at all. She does sound like she wants to hand wave away any dangers, though. All that said, it's still probably a lot safer than strapping yourself to a big tank of liquid methane and oxygen and lighting the candle.
You drive around in a device that propels itself by creating explosions siphoning a tank of a highly flammable accelerant. We call it perfectly safe all the time. This is not much different. Her arguments for not using Helium was the sleazy part.
@dwerg85 That's not really the same thing is it, She is talking about a bag of hydrogen gas. Hydrogen will never be as safe as helium, but with helium, you do lose some of your lifting capability.
@@aprilpower1158 I think I live in a fairly "normal" middle class neighborhood. I look around my neighborhood and I see... maybe five families that could do an Antarctica cruise or a safari trip to Africa whenever they want. I see probably 30 who could do either of those, once, with some planning and saving. Then I see a few dozen who will never ever be able to do either of those things. They might manage a cruise in the Caribbean once in their life time, but really a trip to Disneyland is about the best they could do. If I shift my gaze a few neighborhoods away, the number in the first two categories is a hard zero. Perhaps your estimation of "normal" people is upper middle class or upper class?
Yep… Then who has to flip the bill when million$ and million$ are spent having to rescue them? Its time rich adventurous types get a bill for their ridiculous rescues.
Little do they know that there are still a good handful of regular people like me have never went to the antarctica nor safari in africa 😂 I haven't started my life anywhere after high school yet lol
“We’d be using 1/3 of a % of the global helium supply” So 1/300th of the total helium supply. Seems rather substantial for a single company just starting out. What if this becomes more popular. That’s a lot of helium
total helium supply. Now use your brain for two seconds, and ask. if they use more helium, and the price goes up, what happens to the total supply of helium
Nah, as long as the material doesn’t seep out of the balloon some how the helium is totally reusable and can be re compressed into a canister again and again.
"We've been to the Antarctic, we've gone on a Safari..." LMAO, who the hell is she talking about? Gotta be rich people because no remotely normal person has done or ever will do anything like that!!
@@Monkofthecaribbean oh boy, only upper middle class can afford to go to these places. A trip to Antarctica costs $15,000 minimum. A safari would be more affordable with $6000. Any regular middle class cannot afford these holidays especially with the cost of living now.
@@martinebon4333 True mostly upper middle class, BUT middle class too if they have savings, and built up assets such as a stock/crypto/bond portfolio. It just depends on their financial situation. But in regards to OP, normal people are upper middle class too lol
Wonka's Glass Elevator. What if someone pops the ballon? What contingencies are there for a Fall? 13:00 well, I hope those parachutes are strong AF. War will come to space too.
Hey honey, I have an idea. Let's take that 3/4 of a mil we have stashed in the cookie jar for this year's vacation and take the kids on a space balloon ride for a few hours!!!😂
Even tho I feel like this is a Oceangate thing waiting to happen. Your post is like you are some1 who won a million dollars then you go and buy a million dollar car and later to complain about how expensive it is to service it.
The curvature isn't that pronounced at 100k ft. You would really have to be much higher for it to be obvious. They're exaggerating here when they say you can see the curvature. And Flat Earthers might also argue that they are just seeing the "edge of the circle" or something. They're about as bright as Trumpies.
@@johnshite4656yeah so why do they argue that you can see curvature on planes, even pilots stick with that story, I’m not a flat earther or spherical, really doesn’t matter to me, we’re still stuck in earth regardless
@@RX-8GT First, most pilots aren't going up to 100k ft, they are going up to around 30k ft. Same as a passenger airliner. Second, I have talked with pilots and when the subject has come up they say that you need to be in LEO basically to see the curvature clearly. There are actually formulas you can plug numbers into and figure out what your horizon will be and whether you can see curvature from that altitude. It's math. You can do it if you really care. All I know is that the Earth is huge, and you have to get pretty much into Space (not 100k ft) before you can see the whole shebang.
@@johnshite4656 SR-71 crews and U-2 pilots have said they could see the curvature of the earth at 80,000 and 70,000 ft respectively. These balloons are supposed to go to 100,000 ft. Also, I've seen video from amateur balloon flights to similar altitudes and you can definitely see the curvature. Here's an example: ua-cam.com/video/SdgJMJv_5AM/v-deo.html
3:53 "outside the capsule its essentially a vacuum" Ok, that's exaggerated. They realize that balloons don't work well in vacuum, right? Sounds like some salesmanship here. Not really a vacuum, not really space imo.
Technically, we are in space already, just stuck on a single planet. But in common and legal parlance, "space" is anything and anywhere beyond Earth, at a minimum of 100 kilometers up.
100,000 ft has been the standard for being considered Space for decades. Look at the X-15 program and how many of those pilots are considered to be astronauts because of the altitudes they achieved during their test flights.
@@Dan-ms4ln Actually you can. NASA has sent balloons as high as 160,000 feet but that's considered about the upper limit for a balloon. And you can't go higher because there's not enough atmospheric pressure to keep the helium inside the balloon. It would pop.
I wish I had the problem of having visited too many places around the world the only option is space. Its hard to find the time and money to just travel out of state. Some people really have too much time and money.
Exactly! 😂.. bruh I’m still exploring this world. This shows there groups of people living a wayy different thrill life to most people and this is a stretching it.
This is a great idea and toyally safe, I don't see how this could go wrong at all, this will work perfectly, it's not like the balloon could burst accidentaly sending its passangers to their deaths, or the onboard systems could fail and have the passangers float away into outer space, or the balloon coiuld burst into flames and incinerate everything, it's not like any of that could happen at all, at, all, this will just work. End sarcasm.
Sigh. That's not how science works. The ballon and capsule will never raise high enough to reach orbit or space. Otherwise we wouldn't need rockets to launch satellites or go to the ISS. Think!
Just one question how do you get back to the landing area and will it have a backup parachute. And what if it lands back on mountain area slamming against cliff face in strong winds of it does loose control. Make video on what safety features and rescue plans you have in place then you might more interested people.
Why not? Other things on my bucket list, but this ... Why not? Ever go up the CN Tower? That elevator ride is awesome. Even flying in a hot air balloon is a unique experience, I've been told.
Income inequality in future: + Lower middle class vacations in these balloons + Middle middle class vacations in the low earth orbit stations + Upper middle class vacations on the moon + Rich vacation on Mars
I dunno about this. The winds aloft are not gentle. The gondola does not appear to have a propulsion system for maneuvering in the horizontal plane. So, how does the balloon stay out of lanes used by airliners or military operations areas (MOA) or prohibited areas?
I'd put it on my bucket list. Going up into the stratosphere in a huge balloon is much safer than thinking you can go to the bottom of the ocean in a carbon-fiber submersible. The only problem that I see is that helium is surprisingly hard to find on Earth.
kinda surprising the amount of negative comments on this topic. This has to be one of the most exciting news lately, who wouldn't want to experience space? I'm hoping this will caught on and become more affordable, maybe I could be in the stratosphere once before I'm gone
Can't wait for the CGI videos on UA-cam explaining what happens to the human body in a ball once it falls from space to the ground. The OceanGate ones were pretty graphic at times.
You provided good coverage of this start-up venture. It was definitely a cheap shot on the part of CNBC to include movies of the Hindenburg burning in an apparent effort to dissuade potential customers from using services of competitors who use hydrogen.
Our great grandchildren are probably going to despise us for wasting helium like this. (For anyone who doesn't know, it's effectively a non-renewable resource. We find it trapped underground. Once it is released into the air, it disperses up into outer space, and is gone forever.)
i think everyone should have to do this, we need to see how small we al our anf how from up there there are no borders and we should realize we all share this beautiful rock
The Balloons don’t get as high as orbit, but you can see the curvature of the Earth. There are no Gs to push you back in your seat on the way to the Stratosphere, but when you get there, it is as dark as Outerspace. I wonder when someone will try to launch into space from balloons in the Stratosphere. I wrote a book where a family took a plane to an orbital launch mount held by blimps where a Space Jet took them to The Moon and to Mars…
Actually to cut costs so we can not tax the rich any more than a street sweeper, FAA went to point to point air traffic control, this lets planes go wherever they want all over the sky, creating a safe zone for ballon to go up and land isn't like in the old days when most flights were in corridors. As planes will need to avoid an area 100's of miles across since these are uncontrolled flights subject to stratospheric winds easily over 50 mph, and last all day, 1,000's of commercial jet liners and their 10,000's of customers are going to face longer flight times, which will no doubt be a surprise to virtually all of them. Sorry folks our flight time today will include and extra 20 mins so all of you w family, car service waiting, all of you racing to a meeting, you in 15l with the new heart for that poor kid, hope everyone can handle the wait. Got to keep it in perspective, we can't expect a dozen of our most important top percent to miss blowing an employees entire annual salary on a joy ride to the stratosphere can we.
I'm liking the concept, but the one thing I kept thinking about was space debris. There's a lot of it up there now from broken satellites to parts of the ISS. Is it possible debris could burst the balloon?
Sounds awesome. But it must have a few emergency parachutes. No reason not to. Should have emergency cut away device to dump a torn balloon so your chute doesn’t tangle. Just like a basic skydiving pack for a secondary reserve. Paragliders often carry 2 reserves. This would be high enough you’d have time for 2-3. And carry enough people it should have a couple for basic safety.
Bring the cost to under 2000 then we will talk. For 2000 you can spend easily a week on vacation in Kuwai, air ticket, hotel, travel and rental car included.
I hate companies saying hydrogen is green. No it isnt. The only thing green we have is nuclear wind solar and freaking dams! Come on. Hydrogen being in the air doesnt mean you dont need tons of electicity and materials to get it out.
This is giving reverse oceangate vibes
That is just *exactly* what I was thinking. You beat me to the comment.
*POP* 😂
Yup. The Titan Afloatable. In case of catastrophic decent passenger will have approx. 10 minutes before literally running out of air.
They NEVER learn🤣🤣🤣🤣
u wont feel anything ..direct heaven in milisec ..
Bro, these companies are setting up some of the most Looney Tunes style disasters for the rich customers like the Titan sub. 🤣🤣🤣
Parachutes have been invented
@@Hans-gb4mv at that altitude, should anything go wrong, the passengers will instantly pass out due to the lack of oxygen or freeze into an icicle due to the extreme low temperature. When Felix Baumgartner, aka the Fearless Felix, jumped from 135000 feet back to the ground, he was in an air-tight fully pressurized suit that's similar to a space suit. He is also a professional skydiver and went through extensive training for that jump. A untrained person on a tourist ballon will die so quickly in this situation and parachute or not isn't gonna save him.
@@Hans-gb4mv Good luck with that in shirt sleeves at 100k feet.
LOL, I have sky dived under 10k and it is cold.
I say it let unfold.
And they poo poo spacex for being overly expensive at 55 million, but deceptively dont say that its for actual orbit and to the ISS, also flash the headline not giving you time to read that its for 3 people! which is incredibly cheap!!!
This is gonna be interesting. Let’s wait for the Netflix documentary on what went wrong. 😅
😂😂😂😂😂
Aym? Planes are more dangerous
That female spokesperson sounds a little sleazy. She states that hydrogen is so safe, even though it's highly flammable. Her stating balloons are perfectly safe is a little Disingenuous.
I also got little bad omen vibes from her vibes - gut feel u know
Keep in mind, the Hindenburg was coated with a super flammable skin. Most of the fire you see in the crash was not from the hydrogen, but from the diesel fuel... the burning hydrogen rose up into the air. The hydrogen only burned because it mixed with air (in these balloons, the hydrogen doesn't mix with the outside air). And even in the Hindenburg disaster, two thirds of the people survived.
Oh, and the Hindenburg was not designed to use hydrogen... it was designed to use helium, but the United States refused to sell helium to the nazis so they had to switch to hydrogen. Had it been floated with helium, the disaster would not have happened at all.
She does sound like she wants to hand wave away any dangers, though. All that said, it's still probably a lot safer than strapping yourself to a big tank of liquid methane and oxygen and lighting the candle.
You drive around in a device that propels itself by creating explosions siphoning a tank of a highly flammable accelerant. We call it perfectly safe all the time. This is not much different. Her arguments for not using Helium was the sleazy part.
@dwerg85 That's not really the same thing is it, She is talking about a bag of hydrogen gas. Hydrogen will never be as safe as helium, but with helium, you do lose some of your lifting capability.
Spokeswoman
I hear China is offering “See America” balloon flights
Hilarious! 😊
Yep
Were*
Yes, it was Fabulous! LOL!
OceanGate but Up
yep.
Looks like an interesting blockbuster sequel 😂
They can deploy a parachute if something goes wrong. The technology is much better understood than the composite material used for OceanGate.
VacuumGate
It’s probably easier to build a capsule going up with low pressure than it is going down with immense pressure. Yes or no? Someone let me know.
9:10 "It is an extremely safe gas". I'm speechless!
yes, because that statement is factually incorrect.
Yeah they never saw the Heidenberg video. 😂
@@luchacefox259 Everybody saw that.
@@luchacefox259Hindenburg?
@@Hizsooairship explosion from hydrogen/ static ...early history of airships
At least Space Perspective knows their customers...... "a family sitting around the table.... we already went to antartica, safari, lets go to space".
I was thinking they could also cater to the privacy market. You could get a lot of isolation in one of these balloon capsules.
Michael Scott vibes 15:51
In other words, not normal people.
@@JanPetersonNormal people can easily afford a tour to Antarctic on a cruise or on a safari trip to Africa.
@@aprilpower1158 I think I live in a fairly "normal" middle class neighborhood.
I look around my neighborhood and I see... maybe five families that could do an Antarctica cruise or a safari trip to Africa whenever they want. I see probably 30 who could do either of those, once, with some planning and saving. Then I see a few dozen who will never ever be able to do either of those things. They might manage a cruise in the Caribbean once in their life time, but really a trip to Disneyland is about the best they could do.
If I shift my gaze a few neighborhoods away, the number in the first two categories is a hard zero.
Perhaps your estimation of "normal" people is upper middle class or upper class?
I think I'ma call this one Stratogate
Bahahahaha ! Thats solid Gold.
Since this is safer than planes then I guess when you take a plane it can be called Planegate?
Wealthy rich folks love to find a way to live life on the edge.
edge of space?
Yep…
Then who has to flip the bill when million$ and million$ are spent having to rescue them?
Its time rich adventurous types get a bill for their ridiculous rescues.
This looks like more fun than a 3 minute ride to the edge of space even without the minute of weightlessness.
I like how they list all the vacation a family was on and bored of those, and yet most people can't even afford to go on vacation.
I am on my 4th vacation in 6 months.
@@SAMMIEJONESJUNIOR That's why I said most.
Little do they know that there are still a good handful of regular people like me have never went to the antarctica nor safari in africa 😂
I haven't started my life anywhere after high school yet lol
“We’d be using 1/3 of a % of the global helium supply” So 1/300th of the total helium supply. Seems rather substantial for a single company just starting out. What if this becomes more popular. That’s a lot of helium
Does that mean 300 flights and we're done? No more helium?
If only retanking the helium was high priority to them too.
We all jokin with the risk and you go and make an actually important point... What's ya priblem?...
total helium supply. Now use your brain for two seconds, and ask. if they use more helium, and the price goes up, what happens to the total supply of helium
Nah, as long as the material doesn’t seep out of the balloon some how the helium is totally reusable and can be re compressed into a canister again and again.
Gonna take my dog up there so he can pee and mark his territory as king dog.
Laika already beat him by almost 70 years yo
My dog will fight your dog 😂
At first I thought this story was full of hot air, but now I see it as very uplifting.
"We've been to the Antarctic, we've gone on a Safari..."
LMAO, who the hell is she talking about? Gotta be rich people because no remotely normal person has done or ever will do anything like that!!
You don’t need to be rich to go on a safari or Antarctica
@@Monkofthecaribbean oh boy, only upper middle class can afford to go to these places. A trip to Antarctica costs $15,000 minimum. A safari would be more affordable with $6000. Any regular middle class cannot afford these holidays especially with the cost of living now.
@@martinebon4333 True mostly upper middle class, BUT middle class too if they have savings, and built up assets such as a stock/crypto/bond portfolio. It just depends on their financial situation. But in regards to OP, normal people are upper middle class too lol
@@martinebon4333I’m what I consider to be fairly normal and plan to be doing a Safari vacation next summer.
but she's right, that's the target audience for space tourism. No normal people is gonna be taking a holiday in space anytime soon
$50,000/ride ...... Nah!.you can keep your balloons.😅
I would give anything to be able to experience the beauty and emptiness of outerspace
Wonka's Glass Elevator.
What if someone pops the ballon? What contingencies are there for a Fall?
13:00 well, I hope those parachutes are strong AF.
War will come to space too.
Hey honey, I have an idea. Let's take that 3/4 of a mil we have stashed in the cookie jar for this year's vacation and take the kids on a space balloon ride for a few hours!!!😂
When you have 100's of millions,, billions, this isn't even paper clip money, loose change in the couch money, a wedding even.
Even tho I feel like this is a Oceangate thing waiting to happen. Your post is like you are some1 who won a million dollars then you go and buy a million dollar car and later to complain about how expensive it is to service it.
Bad news for flat earthers
Sure. Bring a group of influencers up to showcase the spheric earth.
The curvature isn't that pronounced at 100k ft. You would really have to be much higher for it to be obvious. They're exaggerating here when they say you can see the curvature. And Flat Earthers might also argue that they are just seeing the "edge of the circle" or something. They're about as bright as Trumpies.
@@johnshite4656yeah so why do they argue that you can see curvature on planes, even pilots stick with that story,
I’m not a flat earther or spherical, really doesn’t matter to me, we’re still stuck in earth regardless
@@RX-8GT First, most pilots aren't going up to 100k ft, they are going up to around 30k ft. Same as a passenger airliner. Second, I have talked with pilots and when the subject has come up they say that you need to be in LEO basically to see the curvature clearly. There are actually formulas you can plug numbers into and figure out what your horizon will be and whether you can see curvature from that altitude. It's math. You can do it if you really care. All I know is that the Earth is huge, and you have to get pretty much into Space (not 100k ft) before you can see the whole shebang.
@@johnshite4656 SR-71 crews and U-2 pilots have said they could see the curvature of the earth at 80,000 and 70,000 ft respectively. These balloons are supposed to go to 100,000 ft.
Also, I've seen video from amateur balloon flights to similar altitudes and you can definitely see the curvature. Here's an example: ua-cam.com/video/SdgJMJv_5AM/v-deo.html
3:53 "outside the capsule its essentially a vacuum"
Ok, that's exaggerated. They realize that balloons don't work well in vacuum, right? Sounds like some salesmanship here. Not really a vacuum, not really space imo.
These companies are like theranos, what pathetic is news media promotes them without doing any actual journalism.
Pretty obvious she's in marketing, not R&D/Engineering.
'these experiences are highly hyperthetical'
We are already in space. We are on a big rock orbing the sun, in space.
Our planet is in space. But life on earth is not because our atmosphere does not allow space to enter
Technically, we are in space already, just stuck on a single planet. But in common and legal parlance, "space" is anything and anywhere beyond Earth, at a minimum of 100 kilometers up.
All tickets are one way only lol
but .... but .... what goes up, must come down, surely ? 😨
😂😂😂
15:49 totally relatable thought for all the average earners in times of rising living costs.
Right $100k vacation on the low end for a family of 4
Soumds like another venture in the footsteps Stockton “The Titanic” Rush.
Of these companies, the spokesperson for the helium balloon seems the most honest
So 100,000 ft with balloons is now space travel. 🤣
We used to call it an accident.
You can't go any further than that because there is no space
@@Dan-ms4ln seriously dude, put the pipe down.
100,000 ft has been the standard for being considered Space for decades. Look at the X-15 program and how many of those pilots are considered to be astronauts because of the altitudes they achieved during their test flights.
@@Dan-ms4ln Actually you can. NASA has sent balloons as high as 160,000 feet but that's considered about the upper limit for a balloon. And you can't go higher because there's not enough atmospheric pressure to keep the helium inside the balloon. It would pop.
I wish I had the problem of having visited too many places around the world the only option is space. Its hard to find the time and money to just travel out of state. Some people really have too much time and money.
Exactly! 😂.. bruh I’m still exploring this world. This shows there groups of people living a wayy different thrill life to most people and this is a stretching it.
@@sirlevis7869 Definitely. The wealth gap is huge now.
This is a great idea and toyally safe, I don't see how this could go wrong at all, this will work perfectly, it's not like the balloon could burst accidentaly sending its passangers to their deaths, or the onboard systems could fail and have the passangers float away into outer space, or the balloon coiuld burst into flames and incinerate everything, it's not like any of that could happen at all, at, all, this will just work.
End sarcasm.
Looks like an awesome experience at a relatively low price. If they can deliver on the vision.
Steer the balloon with a MadCatz controller?
Pressurized chamber and tourism gives me bad vibes.😢
😂😂😂😂 titanium carbon fiber hull😂😂😂
We need flat earthers to ride to ride the balloon.
This is a perfect opportunity for flat earthers to try forced skydiving
What if they still see it's flat ?
@@ahmedzakikhan7639 they won't
oceangate = sky gate
Imagine it just keeps getting further and further away from earth, until it pops and just floating in space.
i wanna "like" this, but that is super sad 😮.
Sigh. That's not how science works. The ballon and capsule will never raise high enough to reach orbit or space. Otherwise we wouldn't need rockets to launch satellites or go to the ISS. Think!
If it doesn't control by an Xbox controller then I'm not riding it!
😂😂😂
It actually uses MadCatz for even more savings!
with bluetooth/wifi connection
By a advanced flight computer, most likely with flight capability attached.
Balloon to the stratosphere, then a space hook to low earth orbit, then a starship to a Lagrange point. 😎🤖
does it have a PS4 controller as well?
Would a fin stabilizer help with control ? This is in reference to initial release.
I can't wait to join the 15 mile high club
Kabooom🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
How do they plan on landing it? Or retrieving it wherever it comes down?
Same way you land other hot air balloons
Just one question how do you get back to the landing area and will it have a backup parachute.
And what if it lands back on mountain area slamming against cliff face in strong winds of it does loose control. Make video on what safety features and rescue plans you have in place then you might more interested people.
Knowledge supports growth.
Why not? Other things on my bucket list, but this ... Why not? Ever go up the CN Tower? That elevator ride is awesome. Even flying in a hot air balloon is a unique experience, I've been told.
What could go wrong 😂
Income inequality in future:
+ Lower middle class vacations in these balloons
+ Middle middle class vacations in the low earth orbit stations
+ Upper middle class vacations on the moon
+ Rich vacation on Mars
I dunno about this. The winds aloft are not gentle. The gondola does not appear to have a propulsion system for maneuvering in the horizontal plane. So, how does the balloon stay out of lanes used by airliners or military operations areas (MOA) or prohibited areas?
I'd put it on my bucket list. Going up into the stratosphere in a huge balloon is much safer than thinking you can go to the bottom of the ocean in a carbon-fiber submersible. The only problem that I see is that helium is surprisingly hard to find on Earth.
I'm curious, what if wind blew the balloon to black hole or another planet
Flat earthers will not cope
The Stratmersible up close and personal😂 lol
How many flat earthers can you fit inside it? 😭😭 lol 😂
As long as its rich people going on these rides. Its all good.
If you spend your money in this you’re not rich, being rich and being wealthy are two different things
It is 1,000$ a seat, too cheap for the "filthy rich" but great for the wealthy and middle class👍.
in 6 hours what if winds drag balloon to some other country and they shoot holes in it?
They will never let anyone go up there to see the Earth is flat!
You’re not a spaceship. You’re a balloon.
Spaceship tickets are too expensive, the balloons cheaper to board.
Bad idea - motion sickness from rocking back and forth.
kinda surprising the amount of negative comments on this topic. This has to be one of the most exciting news lately, who wouldn't want to experience space? I'm hoping this will caught on and become more affordable, maybe I could be in the stratosphere once before I'm gone
These people would be mad at someone going to the moon in 69
For real, this is so exciting!
Helium is a limited rare resource and shouldn't be used for pointless trip.
Can't wait for the CGI videos on UA-cam explaining what happens to the human body in a ball once it falls from space to the ground. The OceanGate ones were pretty graphic at times.
You provided good coverage of this start-up venture. It was definitely a cheap shot on the part of CNBC to include movies of the Hindenburg burning in an apparent effort to dissuade potential customers from using services of competitors who use hydrogen.
This is amazing, butI'll stay in the troposphere.
I can't wait!
Great work
Is it controlled by a SNES controller?
Sounds kinda cool
Our great grandchildren are probably going to despise us for wasting helium like this.
(For anyone who doesn't know, it's effectively a non-renewable resource. We find it trapped underground. Once it is released into the air, it disperses up into outer space, and is gone forever.)
The need private beds for some space loving ❤❤❤ The stratosphere club
Can this technology replace low earth orbit satellite for wireless communications?
Imploding in Water or Exploding in Space, choose wisely! We are not ready for stuff like these, for Now at least.
lol
i think everyone should have to do this, we need to see how small we al our anf how from up there there are no borders and we should realize we all share this beautiful rock
Aliens must be thinking ''look at those fools, we're here with anti-gravity and they're still using gas to float around, hahaha"
“We’re using helicopter standards.” How many helicopters can fly at 100,000 feet?
Where do I sign up
These capsules are really very cool, they're engineered and manufactured by Weyland Industries.
will the tickets be affordable ? I love to see the earth
what's the back up?
The Balloons don’t get as high as orbit, but you can see the curvature of the Earth. There are no Gs to push you back in your seat on the way to the Stratosphere, but when you get there, it is as dark as Outerspace.
I wonder when someone will try to launch into space from balloons in the Stratosphere. I wrote a book where a family took a plane to an orbital launch mount held by blimps where a Space Jet took them to The Moon and to Mars…
Wondering when we will actually see first space tourist 😊❤
Now you just need the FAA to stop messing up all of these flight paterns so one of these ballons doesnt get intercepted during takeoff :D
Actually to cut costs so we can not tax the rich any more than a street sweeper, FAA went to point to point air traffic control, this lets planes go wherever they want all over the sky, creating a safe zone for ballon to go up and land isn't like in the old days when most flights were in corridors. As planes will need to avoid an area 100's of miles across since these are uncontrolled flights subject to stratospheric winds easily over 50 mph, and last all day, 1,000's of commercial jet liners and their 10,000's of customers are going to face longer flight times, which will no doubt be a surprise to virtually all of them. Sorry folks our flight time today will include and extra 20 mins so all of you w family, car service waiting, all of you racing to a meeting, you in 15l with the new heart for that poor kid, hope everyone can handle the wait. Got to keep it in perspective, we can't expect a dozen of our most important top percent to miss blowing an employees entire annual salary on a joy ride to the stratosphere can we.
What would the cost of the ticket be
A lot cheaper than a flight with spacex or virgin galactic, which is very affordable.😎
Yeah and a submarine down to the titanic sounded like a good idea too 😳
I will ride this one day
Someone gets on with a staticky sweater, aand it's *[boom!]* "Oh, the humanity!"
What happens if you accidentally hit the moon?
😂😂😂
LONG LIVE FLAT EARTH
Better get that QC department on platinum level status and above and beyond!!!
One day we all gonna live in stratosphere
I'm liking the concept, but the one thing I kept thinking about was space debris. There's a lot of it up there now from broken satellites to parts of the ISS. Is it possible debris could burst the balloon?
So you can just use a nice VR headset and get the same experience? Good to know, There will be a app shortly if there is not one already!
Cool. Sign me up.
I have a name for the capsule..... "Ingenuity"
Sounds awesome. But it must have a few emergency parachutes. No reason not to. Should have emergency cut away device to dump a torn balloon so your chute doesn’t tangle. Just like a basic skydiving pack for a secondary reserve. Paragliders often carry 2 reserves. This would be high enough you’d have time for 2-3. And carry enough people it should have a couple for basic safety.
You ride it first, bro😂
they need to go a lot higher
Bring the cost to under 2000 then we will talk. For 2000 you can spend easily a week on vacation in Kuwai, air ticket, hotel, travel and rental car included.
I hate companies saying hydrogen is green. No it isnt. The only thing green we have is nuclear wind solar and freaking dams! Come on. Hydrogen being in the air doesnt mean you dont need tons of electicity and materials to get it out.