3161: Airspeed - Revision history

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82.132.236.133: /* Explanation */ If stating that, needs to be an aside and avoid the Oxford Comma entirely.

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‎Explanation: If stating that, needs to be an aside and avoid the Oxford Comma entirely.

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82.132.236.44: /* Explanation */ I have other problems with this interpretation, but limiting myself to this bit.

2025-11-19T18:30:53Z

‎Explanation: I have other problems with this interpretation, but limiting myself to this bit.

R128: some more problems with descending, and moving the dirigible paragraph closer to the airspeed

2025-11-19T16:24:04Z

some more problems with descending, and moving the dirigible paragraph closer to the airspeed

82.132.245.223: /* Explanation */ Inserted various cases of "the" and "a"/"an", for grammar. And some other minor changes.

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‎Explanation: Inserted various cases of "the" and "a"/"an", for grammar. And some other minor changes.

User 8496351: /* Explanation */

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Mathmaster at 22:58, 5 November 2025

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	==Explanation==		==Explanation==
−	~~{{incomplete\|What would be the challenges for Hot Air descent? This page was created by a HOT AIR ROBOT. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}~~
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	In the comic, [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] are trying to break the record for {{w\|airspeed}} in a {{w\|hot air balloon}}. Cueball's exclamation "yessss!" suggests that they achieved it when there was a slight variation in conditions that allowed them to briefly reach 2 miles per hour (roughly 3.2 km/h, or 0.9 m/s), which would not seem particularly impressive to most people as it is even slower than typical human {{w\|Preferred walking speed\|walking speed}}.		In the comic, [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] are trying to break the record for {{w\|airspeed}} in a {{w\|hot air balloon}}. Cueball's exclamation "yessss!" suggests that they achieved it when there was a slight variation in conditions that allowed them to briefly reach 2 miles per hour (roughly 3.2 km/h, or 0.9 m/s), which would not seem particularly impressive to most people as it is even slower than typical human {{w\|Preferred walking speed\|walking speed}}.

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 :[A hot air balloon is shown with its six vertical panels alternating in black and white. Megan and Cueball are riding in the basket, with Cueball looking over the side and down while Megan looks at something inside the basket, also looking down.]
 :Megan: 0 MPH... 0 MPH... Ooh, 1 MPH with that last gust... 0 MPH... 1 MPH... 1 MPH... '''''2 MPH!!!'''''
-:Cueball: '''''Yessss'''!''
+:Cueball: '''''Yessss!'''''
 :[Caption below the panel:]
 :Breaking the hot air balloon level-flight airspeed record

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 :[A hot air balloon is shown with its six vertical panels alternating in black and white. Megan and Cueball are riding in the basket, with Cueball looking over the side and down while Megan looks at something inside the basket, also looking down.]
 :Megan: 0 MPH... 0 MPH... Ooh, 1 MPH with that last gust... 0 MPH... 1 MPH... 1 MPH... '''''2 MPH!!!'''''
-:Cueball: ''YESSSS!''
+:Cueball: '''''Yessss'''!''
 :[Caption below the panel:]
 :Breaking the hot air balloon level-flight airspeed record

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 Additionally, hot air balloons operate by changing their buoyancy through heating and cooling air. Of course, the balloon could cease heating, and fall quite rapidly, but the altitude record presumably should only be held by a balloon in controlled flight. Descending below sea level, the balloon would encounter denser air, and would need to go cooler and cooler to not gain positive buoyancy. Going down a mineshaft, as in the title text, might also cause convection currents and other problems as air in the confined space heats up, acting very differently to air in open atmosphere.
-Hot air balloons have been referenced previously in the comics [[427: Bad Timing]], [[2940: Modes of Transportation]], and more recently [[3153: Hot Water Balloon]].
+Hot air balloons have been referenced previously in the comics [[427: Bad Timing]], [[2940: Modes of Transportation]] and, more recently, [[3153: Hot Water Balloon]].
 ==Transcript==

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 Additionally, hot air balloons operate by changing their buoyancy through heating and cooling air. Of course, the balloon could cease heating, and fall quite rapidly, but the altitude record presumably should only be held by a balloon in controlled flight. Descending below sea level, the balloon would encounter denser air, and would need to go cooler and cooler to not gain positive buoyancy. Going down a mineshaft, as in the title text, might also cause convection currents and other problems as air in the confined space heats up, acting very differently to air in open atmosphere.
-Hot air balloons have been referenced previously in the comics [[427: Bad Timing]], [[2940: Modes of Transportation]], and [[3153: Hot Water Balloon]].
+Hot air balloons have been referenced previously in the comics [[427: Bad Timing]], [[2940: Modes of Transportation]], and more recently [[3153: Hot Water Balloon]].
 ==Transcript==

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 A more common record that people try to achieve with balloons is altitude; at this time the current record is 69,850 feet (21,290 m), set in 2005. The title text suggests achieving a ''negative'' altitude record by allowing the balloon to descend down a mineshaft. This could just be in relation to the height of the land in the immediate vicinity of the mineshaft, but could also be with respect to {{w|mean sea level}}, similarly avoiding direct comparison against the ground. With the typical width of a properly inflated balloon being greater than a typical mineshaft, it could be a logistical challenge to make a controlled descent (unless an open pit mine were to be considered a mineshaft — the {{w|Bingham Canyon Mine}} reaches a depth of 1210 m).
-Additionally, hot air balloons operate by changing their buoyancy through heating and cooling air. Of course, the balloon could cease heating, and fall quite rapidly, but the altitude record presumably should only be held by a balloon in controlled flight. Descending below sea level, the balloon would encounter denser air, and would need to go cooler and cooler to maintain control. Going down a mineshaft, as in the title text, might also cause convection currents and other problems as air in the confined space heats up, acting very differently to air in open atmosphere.
+Additionally, hot air balloons operate by changing their buoyancy through heating and cooling air. Of course, the balloon could cease heating, and fall quite rapidly, but the altitude record presumably should only be held by a balloon in controlled flight. Descending below sea level, the balloon would encounter denser air, and would need to go cooler and cooler to not gain positive buoyancy. Going down a mineshaft, as in the title text, might also cause convection currents and other problems as air in the confined space heats up, acting very differently to air in open atmosphere.
 Hot air balloons have been referenced previously in the comics [[427: Bad Timing]], [[2940: Modes of Transportation]], and [[3153: Hot Water Balloon]].

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 A more common record that people try to achieve with balloons is altitude; at this time the current record is 69,850 feet (21,290 m), set in 2005. The title text suggests achieving a ''negative'' altitude record by allowing the balloon to descend down a mineshaft. This could just be in relation to the height of the land in the immediate vicinity of the mineshaft, but could also be with respect to {{w|mean sea level}}, similarly avoiding direct comparison against the ground. With the typical width of a properly inflated balloon being greater than a typical mineshaft, it could be a logistical challenge to make a controlled descent (unless an open pit mine were to be considered a mineshaft — the {{w|Bingham Canyon Mine}} reaches a depth of 1210 m).
-It could be possible to increase hot air balloon's airspeed by installing propeller on it (powered by motor or crew's muscle power), attached to balloon's basket, capable of switching direction by rotating or re-placing the propeller - which would essentially turn it into early form of dirigible. Unfortunately, this may result in modified hot air balloon being counted as dirigible - placing it in other record category, where it would have hard time competing (due to proper dirigibles having better aerodynamics, and therefore better airspeed than converted hot air balloon).
+It could be possible to increase a hot air balloon's airspeed by installing a propeller on it (powered by motor or the crew's muscle power), attached to the balloon's basket, capable of switching direction by rotating or repositioning the propeller-mount. This would essentially turn it into early form of dirigible, although that may then result in the modified hot air balloon being counted as a dirigible, placing it in another record category where it would have hard time competing with prior claims (due to proper dirigibles having better aerodynamics, and therefore a better<!-- /'more attainable'? --> airspeed than a converted hot air balloon).
 Hot air balloons have been referenced previously in the comics [[427: Bad Timing]], [[2940: Modes of Transportation]], and [[3153: Hot Water Balloon]].

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	A more common record that people try to achieve with balloons is altitude; at this time the current record is 69,850 feet (21,290 m), set in 2005. The title text suggests achieving a ''negative'' altitude record by allowing the balloon to descend down a mineshaft. This could just be in relation to the height of the land in the immediate vicinity of the mineshaft, but could also be with respect to {{w\|mean sea level}}, similarly avoiding direct comparison against the ground. With the typical width of a properly inflated balloon being greater than a typical mineshaft, it could be a logistical challenge to make a controlled descent (unless an open pit mine were to be considered a mineshaft — the {{w\|Bingham Canyon Mine}} reaches a depth of 1210 m).		A more common record that people try to achieve with balloons is altitude; at this time the current record is 69,850 feet (21,290 m), set in 2005. The title text suggests achieving a ''negative'' altitude record by allowing the balloon to descend down a mineshaft. This could just be in relation to the height of the land in the immediate vicinity of the mineshaft, but could also be with respect to {{w\|mean sea level}}, similarly avoiding direct comparison against the ground. With the typical width of a properly inflated balloon being greater than a typical mineshaft, it could be a logistical challenge to make a controlled descent (unless an open pit mine were to be considered a mineshaft — the {{w\|Bingham Canyon Mine}} reaches a depth of 1210 m).
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		+	It could be possible to increase hot air balloon's airspeed by installing propeller on it (powered by motor or crew's muscle power), attached to balloon's basket, capable of switching direction by rotating or re-placing the propeller - which would essentially turn it into early form of dirigible. Unfortunately, this may result in modified hot air balloon being counted as dirigible - placing it in other record category, where it would have hard time competing (due to proper dirigibles having better aerodynamics, and therefore better airspeed than converted hot air balloon).

	Hot air balloons have been referenced previously in the comics [[427: Bad Timing]], [[2940: Modes of Transportation]], and [[3153: Hot Water Balloon]].		Hot air balloons have been referenced previously in the comics [[427: Bad Timing]], [[2940: Modes of Transportation]], and [[3153: Hot Water Balloon]].

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 ==Explanation==
-{{incomplete|This page was created by a HOT AIR ROBOT. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
+{{incomplete|What would be the challenges for Hot Air descent? This page was created by a HOT AIR ROBOT. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
 In the comic, [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] are trying to break the record for {{w|airspeed}} in a {{w|hot air balloon}}. Cueball's exclamation "yessss!" suggests that they achieved it when there was a slight variation in conditions that allowed them to briefly reach 2 miles per hour (roughly 3.2 km/h, or 0.9 m/s), which would not seem particularly impressive to most people as it is even slower than typical human {{w|Preferred walking speed|walking speed}}.