No. Lightweight domes as is often shown in artist's illustrations are dumb. Make the domes heavy enough to stay put on the foundation and they double as radiation protection.

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The universe will one day kill us, unless we kill ourselves.

But we’ve known this for a long time.

Asteroids impacts, the death of the sun, the heat death of the universe. As far as we know there’s just no way to escape it.

Just start learning on the side for fun now.

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You smell like pure gasoline.

And? I don't see what anything you said has to do with anything I said.

The fact that 60,000 feet altitude is well within what’s considered national airspace AND that we have a right to control what’s in our airspace is 100% true. It is well-accepted international law — even the Soviet Union (now Russia) accepts it and uses it.

The “detection edge” of Earth-based radars extends well above 100,000 feet, in fact, well above 100 km altitude. See, we have these things called early warning radars that were built decades ago to do precisely this job albeit with objects that move considerably faster than balloons.

Beautiful. In another life I would study astrophysics instead of finance. Or maybe I’ll do a bsc/msc after I retire

It was supposed to calm the population... weed out aggression.

Well, it works. The people here stopped fighting... and then they stopped everything else.

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If something as significantly diverse as galaxies can’t exist in close proximity to one another without conflicting, what does that say for the future of Homo sapiens?

My really, that's not very mature now is it.

Your post mentioned nothing about protection from solar radiation, only that planets without magnetospheres could hold their atmosphere longer than originally thought. If doesn't specify whether longer or not with a magnetosphere, nor whether it would deflect harmful radiation, so get off ya high horse.

>There is no dispute about being able control our national airspace at 60,000 feet.

That's not true. It's still face that no one knows what the "UAPs" are/ were. There's stuff flying around that comes from above 80,000 feet into the detection-edge of Earth-based radars and then breaks the laws of physics lol. No one knows what those things are, and no one can "control" our airspace from them. What astounds me is that those things exist, and we're not dumping tons of money trying to figure out what they are and how they fly. Imagine where our space program could be if they made a serious effort at doing that lol.

Do you know Miranda?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bol0o4kQjIs&ab_channel=AaronBank

The US is really going bat shit insane over a fucking balloon.

The Expanse has it if you like.

It's the anti-satellite missiles, not the plane, that go into space.

You have a good argument there

No one knows what it is but it’s provocative!

Well there’s plane launched anti-satellite missiles soooo…

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National boundaries are dependent on being on Earth. Each country has its airspace and whatever above that is mostly fair game, which practically speaking means satellites almost exclusively.

Orbit is protected because we all require satellites to function if we want modern life to function. That includes Russia, China and everyone else too. If you trash MEO or GEO it will be trashed for decades if not centuries. Frankly it makes some sense for everyone to not be completely in the dark on the capabilities of everyone else anyways and regulating surveillance from orbit is basically impossible

So those are the limits everyone has de facto agreed with whether there's a specific treaty outlining it or not. Nobody would be playing with balloons if they didn't produce better intelligence in some capacity. SIGINT is the most obvious.

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