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- U.S. Intel officials: Chinese spy balloon used a US internet provider for comms https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/us-intelligence-officials-determined-chinese-spy-balloon-used-us-inter-rcna131150 5 comments
- Chinese spy balloon used a U.S. internet provider to communicate https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/us-intelligence-officials-determined-chinese-spy-balloon-used-us-inter-rcna131150 4 comments
- Balloons will surf wind currents to track wildfires https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/19/1095125/balloons-will-surf-wind-currents-to-track-wildfires/ 2 comments environment
- Man Who Started World’s Biggest Balloon Fight Plots Revenge for Poop Attack https://www.thedailybeast.com/park-sang-hak-who-started-epic-balloon-fight-will-avenge-north-korea-poop-attack?ref=home%3Fref%3Dhome 2 comments worldevents
- Economy to 'stagnate,' federal deficit expected to balloon to $46.5B this year: PBO https://www.cp24.com/news/economy-to-stagnate-federal-deficit-expected-to-balloon-to-46-5b-this-year-pbo-1.6600453 28 comments economics
- Chinese surveillance balloon used American technology https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/chinese-surveillance-balloon-used-american-technology-rcna91961 26 comments worldnews
- Balloon Intercepted By U.S. Air Force Over Texas https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/norad-intercepts-balloon-over-texas 8 comments aliens
- Cosmic Sense: Would you ride this balloon to outer space? https://www.audacy.com/krld/news/national/would-you-ride-this-balloon-to-outer-space 34 comments space
- Stray balloon triggers chip-making outage at Infineon plant https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/stray-balloon-triggers-chipmaking-outage-infineon-plant 7 comments economy
- Israel strikes in Gaza after incendiary balloons - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57492745.amp 42 comments worldnews
- Egypt demands end to incendiary balloon attacks on Israel https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/egypt-demands-end-to-balloon-attacks-on-israel-638353?fbclid=iwar06xdixfgzmobj_q7ng5d6dtg9chawoanxjbkjf2yaqtvobeuw05fr0ues 8 comments worldnews
- Hoyt Hutchinson, Alabama Baby Trump balloon stabber, calls radio show, says it was ‘good vs. evil’ https://www.al.com/news/2019/11/hoyt-hutchinson-alabama-baby-trump-balloon-stabber-calls-radio-show-says-it-was-good-vs-evil.html 52 comments politics
- [SharpFootball] Jared Goff has 27 yards thru 3 quarters and has a 7:7 TD:INT ratio on the year. He’s in year 1 of his 4-yr, $134M contract. He has a $10.6M cap hit this year, but it balloons to $36M in 2020 and over $30M in 2021 and 2022. For comparison, Brady’s 2020 cap hit is $13.5M.” https://twitter.com/SharpFootball/status/1183510442146177025 29 comments nfl
- Trump/Republican tax cuts for Corporations and the Wealthy cause the U.S. budget deficit to balloon 27% in one year https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/12/the-us-budget-deficit-is-up-27percent-and-getting-closer-to-1-trillion.html 18 comments economy
- Trump can keep hot air balloon grounded because 'he is so fat': Yang https://abcnews.go.com/politics/video/trump-hot-air-balloon-grounded-fat-yang-64908481 140 comments politics
- 'A Dystopian Surveillance State Being Built in Plain Sight': Pentagon Tests Radar-Equipped Balloons to Spy on Vehicles Across Midwest https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/02/dystopian-surveillance-state-being-built-plain-sight-pentagon-tests-radar-equipped 20 comments politics
- There's a Baby Trump balloon in Washington today https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-washington-dc-july-4-2019/h_44c0444868862b41d2cf84e7f8149d17 68 comments politics
- Trump baby blimp to return for UK state visit, as protesters consider new hot air balloon five times the size https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trump-baby-balloon-uk-visit-protest-london-queen-buckingham-palace-a8883391.html 11 comments worldnews
- Huge 'Baby Trump' balloons have landed in N.J. and they're up for adoption https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2018/08/as_trump_leaves_nj_the_baby_trump_balloons_land.html 103 comments politics
- Drew Brees getting absolutely shelled by a bunch of kids with water balloons at Saints camp https://www.instagram.com/p/blykh3oaaje/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=r3r4kd05ai61 65 comments nfl
- Israeli general clashes with cabinet hardliners over response to balloon threat https://www.ft.com/content/f7a73e96-89cc-11e8-b18d-0181731a0340 16 comments geopolitics
- When inflating a balloon using your lungs, are you effectively filling it with Carbon Dioxide and will this affect it in comparison to inflating it via a compressor? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/6or8t5/when_inflating_a_balloon_using_your_lungs_are_you/ 11 comments askscience
- India’s most expensive stock is of a company that started out making balloons and contraceptives https://qz.com/942995/mrf-ltd-indias-most-expensive-stock-belongs-to-a-company-that-started-out-making-balloons-and-contraceptives/ 16 comments india
- Krtek from balloon twister /u/csataigergo (x-post r/hungary) https://www.instagram.com/p/bqicjdrjs4t/ 10 comments europe
- Students film breathtaking curvature of Earth using high-altitude weather balloon http://phys.org/news/2017-01-students-breathtaking-curvature-earth-high-altitude.html 5 comments space
- If you go to the Pittsburgh Penguins Twitter page, you'll see balloons rising up. https://twitter.com/penguins 3 comments hockey
- "You’ll be remembered for holding a balloon and acting like one." -Liverpool fans open letter to Raheem Sterling http://mirr.im/1gvyayj 30 comments soccer
- Canadian flew over Calgary in chair carried by balloons http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33414264 3 comments nottheonion
- Google launches Internet-beaming balloons -- "If successful, the technology might allow countries to leapfrog the expense of laying fiber cable, dramatically increasing Internet usage in places such as Africa and Southeast Asia" http://phys.org/news/2013-06-google-internet-beaming-balloons.html 16 comments technology
- Magma "Balloon" Swells Below Santorini http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/09/120912-magma-balloon-lava-santorini-volcano-science/ 3 comments science
- "floats like a hummingbird, travels as fast as a jet, is as quiet as a hot-air balloon, and simple enough a car mechanic could repair it" http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-01/how-d-dalus-flies-nothing-else/ 13 comments technology
- Exploration of the Jet Stream by Amateur Scientists - we're going to send a small balloon fully Trans-Atlantic! (and could use a little help) http://lvl1.org 17 comments science
- The world is running out of helium. Professor says party balloons filled with helium are too cheap and they should really cost about $100 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10668231 193 comments reddit.com
- OK another wacky idea to stop the oil spill. Would a balloon angioplasty work? What if we just made a bigger model used for blowing up inside of an artery? http://www.heartsite.com/html/ptca.html 49 comments science
- Fail -Space balloon wipes out car (VID) http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/04/29/2885724.htm 3 comments technology
- Win Reddit $40k by helping to find these red balloons around the continental US http://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/ 21 comments reddit.com
- Balloon boys neighbour fights with Media http://www.break.com/index/balloon-boy-neighbor-fights-with-media.html 4 comments reddit.com
- Teens take pictures of space with balloon (40 pics) http://acidcow.com/pics/1688-teens-take-pictures-of-space-with-balloon-40-pics.html 3 comments science
- NJ Supreme Court Rules Rat Balloon is Protected Speech http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/union_rat_is_protected_as_free.html 3 comments law
- The Worlds Largest Water Balloon - 120 Foot Experiment http://projects.rimmkaufman.com/ 2 comments reddit.com