Florida Researchers Deploy New Hurricane Data Weather Balloons
Southeast News • September 29, 2008
A fleet of special balloons released over South Florida may soon help hurricane forecasters better predict the path of storms. But at a cost of up to $2,000 each, these aren't your average ...
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Subject: What Knuckleheads Came up with This One
Posted On: September 29, 2008, 2:57 pm CDT
Posted By: iNoon
Comment:
Leave it to the sky scientists to come up with a way to do exactly what the water scientists are trying to avoid.
Sink hundreds of several foot tall balloons in the ocean.
What are they going to make these balloons out of...potato chips? There's enough problems with six pack holders washing up on the beaches with all sorts of weird marine life threaded through them. The average dolphin isn't too interested in a plastic necklace any more than a used dopey party favor.
Maybe NOAA should insist on a deposit on each ballon, redeemable on return? Then at least you'd have homies on the beach cleaning up the fallen detritus. Then one bag man gets hit by the pencil-sized probe at high speed and connects with an ambulance-chasing attorney who files a Loss of Consortium lawsuit on behalf of the local park bench. NOAA would then have to either design a re-entry vehicle for the units, adding $1mil to each, or cancel the project altogether.
Subject: What Knuckleheads Came up with This One
Sink hundreds of several foot tall balloons in the ocean.
What are they going to make these balloons out of...potato chips? There's enough problems with six pack holders washing up on the beaches with all sorts of weird marine life threaded through them. The average dolphin isn't too interested in a plastic necklace any more than a used dopey party favor.
Maybe NOAA should insist on a deposit on each ballon, redeemable on return? Then at least you'd have homies on the beach cleaning up the fallen detritus. Then one bag man gets hit by the pencil-sized probe at high speed and connects with an ambulance-chasing attorney who files a Loss of Consortium lawsuit on behalf of the local park bench. NOAA would then have to either design a re-entry vehicle for the units, adding $1mil to each, or cancel the project altogether.