Talk:3107: Weather Balloons

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If you could make weather balloons out of plastic grocery bags you could address global warming and plastic bag pollution at the same time. 47.248.235.170 21:35, 25 June 2025 (UTC)Pat

You'd only delay those problems as weather balloons do have a life expectancy, just look at the problems the Myth Busters had with them when tackling Lawnchair Larry. 2001:1C02:1A9D:9700:391C:7C6C:4E0A:AD94 23:21, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
It wouldn't be a plastic recycling method so much as a plastic distribution method. RegularSizedGuy (talk) 00:26, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

The current description is useful -- but the phrase "over time" is in error. The graph shows the relationship between the number of weather balloons and the accuracy of modelling: "time" is not a component. 165.225.115.132 23:56, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

I would say time is a component because the x axis is labeled number of weather balloons launched _per day_, therefore distributed through time, therefore time is part of the graph. 179.217.229.235 06:54, 26 June 2025 (UTC)