Japan used balloons to travel on the jet stream and drop bombs on America in ww2.
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It’s a balloon that flies at very high altitudes and measures things like atmospheric pressure, wind etc. and sends the data back down to meteorologists.what is a weather balloon supposed to be when it’s at home![]()
what is a weather balloon supposed to be when it’s at homeWell the first one was a “weather balloon”
I’m pretty intrigued by the whole thing