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redpoint5 · 02-25-2020, 05:54 PM

As mentioned above, I'm starting to think it was a ruse to fund his rocketry hobby. It would clearly be safer and cheaper and easier to use weather balloons. You couldn't get 70 miles up though. That's 370,000 feet. Gonna need a rocket for that one.

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