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A rocket needs massive horsepower and go thousands of miles and hour to get into space.
Yet a balloon can almost do it with no propulsion at all. Or can it? What's the record? Pretty darn high. How much farther to be, technically, in space?
Explain the apparent contradiction or discrepancy.
Is it wrong to say a balloon has no propulsion?
Then there are geosynchronous satellites, which, from one perspective, are motionless. Seems like they could almost drop a probe down to Earth, like in the Star Trek movie, minus the red matter, of course.
Sorry, I know this isn't a science class, but there are guys on this forum way smarter and better educated than me and I thought I'd take advantage. I'm getting old, I think I should know these things before I go.
Yet a balloon can almost do it with no propulsion at all. Or can it? What's the record? Pretty darn high. How much farther to be, technically, in space?
Explain the apparent contradiction or discrepancy.
Is it wrong to say a balloon has no propulsion?
Then there are geosynchronous satellites, which, from one perspective, are motionless. Seems like they could almost drop a probe down to Earth, like in the Star Trek movie, minus the red matter, of course.
Sorry, I know this isn't a science class, but there are guys on this forum way smarter and better educated than me and I thought I'd take advantage. I'm getting old, I think I should know these things before I go.