That is just *exactly* what I was thinking. You beat me to the comment.

*POP* 😂

Yup. The Titan Afloatable. In case of catastrophic decent passenger will have approx. 10 minutes before literally running out of air.

They NEVER learn🤣🤣🤣🤣

u wont feel anything ..direct heaven in milisec ..

yep.

Looks like an interesting blockbuster sequel 😂

They can deploy a parachute if something goes wrong. The technology is much better understood than the composite material used for OceanGate.

VacuumGate

It’s probably easier to build a capsule going up with low pressure than it is going down with immense pressure. Yes or no? Someone let me know.

Parachutes have been invented

@@Hans-gb4mv at that altitude, should anything go wrong, the passengers will instantly pass out due to the lack of oxygen or freeze into an icicle due to the extreme low temperature. When Felix Baumgartner, aka the Fearless Felix, jumped from 135000 feet back to the ground, he was in an air-tight fully pressurized suit that's similar to a space suit. He is also a professional skydiver and went through extensive training for that jump. A untrained person on a tourist ballon will die so quickly in this situation and parachute or not isn't gonna save him.

@@Hans-gb4mv Good luck with that in shirt sleeves at 100k feet. LOL, I have sky dived under 10k and it is cold.

I say it let unfold.

And they poo poo spacex for being overly expensive at 55 million, but deceptively dont say that its for actual orbit and to the ISS, also flash the headline not giving you time to read that its for 3 people! which is incredibly cheap!!!

Hilarious! 😊

Yep

yes, because that statement is factually incorrect.

Yeah they never saw the Heidenberg video. 😂

​@@luchacefox259 Everybody saw that.

​@@luchacefox259Hindenburg?

​@@Hizsooairship explosion from hydrogen/ static ...early history of airships

Sure. Bring a group of influencers up to showcase the spheric earth.

The curvature isn't that pronounced at 100k ft. You would really have to be much higher for it to be obvious. They're exaggerating here when they say you can see the curvature. And Flat Earthers might also argue that they are just seeing the "edge of the circle" or something. They're about as bright as Trumpies.

@@johnsmithe4656yeah so why do they argue that you can see curvature on planes, even pilots stick with that story, I’m not a flat earther or spherical, really doesn’t matter to me, we’re still stuck in earth regardless

​@@RX-8GT First, most pilots aren't going up to 100k ft, they are going up to around 30k ft. Same as a passenger airliner. Second, I have talked with pilots and when the subject has come up they say that you need to be in LEO basically to see the curvature clearly. There are actually formulas you can plug numbers into and figure out what your horizon will be and whether you can see curvature from that altitude. It's math. You can do it if you really care. All I know is that the Earth is huge, and you have to get pretty much into Space (not 100k ft) before you can see the whole shebang.

@@johnsmithe4656 SR-71 crews and U-2 pilots have said they could see the curvature of the earth at 80,000 and 70,000 ft respectively. These balloons are supposed to go to 100,000 ft. Also, I've seen video from amateur balloon flights to similar altitudes and you can definitely see the curvature. Here's an example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZXKe4CAq8Rod68

Bahahahaha ! Thats solid Gold.

I also got little bad omen vibes from her vibes - gut feel u know

They are, this isn't hindenburg times😂. Obviously nothing like this is 100% , but its really safe these days

Keep in mind, the Hindenburg was coated with a super flammable skin. Most of the fire you see in the crash was not from the hydrogen, but from the diesel fuel... the burning hydrogen rose up into the air. The hydrogen only burned because it mixed with air (in these balloons, the hydrogen doesn't mix with the outside air). And even in the Hindenburg disaster, two thirds of the people survived. Oh, and the Hindenburg was not designed to use hydrogen... it was designed to use helium, but the United States refused to sell helium to the nazis so they had to switch to hydrogen. Had it been floated with helium, the disaster would not have happened at all. She does sound like she wants to hand wave away any dangers, though. All that said, it's still probably a lot safer than strapping yourself to a big tank of liquid methane and oxygen and lighting the candle.

You drive around in a device that propels itself by creating explosions siphoning a tank of a highly flammable accelerant. We call it perfectly safe all the time. This is not much different. Her arguments for not using Helium was the sleazy part.

@dwerg85 That's not really the same thing is it, She is talking about a bag of hydrogen gas. Hydrogen will never be as safe as helium, but with helium, you do lose some of your lifting capability.

but .... but .... what goes up, must come down, surely ? 😨

😂😂😂

😂😂😂😂😂

Aym? Planes are more dangerous

I was thinking they could also cater to the privacy market. You could get a lot of isolation in one of these balloon capsules.

Michael Scott vibes 15:51

Yes. Rich people 😂

In other words, not normal people.

I am on my 4th vacation in 6 months.

@@SAMMIEJONESJUNIOR That's why I said most.

edge of space?

You don’t need to be rich to go on a safari or Antarctica

@@erwina4738 oh boy, only upper middle class can afford to go to these places. A trip to Antarctica costs $15,000 minimum. A safari would be more affordable with $6000. Any regular middle class cannot afford these holidays especially with the cost of living now.

@@martinebon4333 True mostly upper middle class, BUT middle class too if they have savings, and built up assets such as a stock/crypto/bond portfolio. It just depends on their financial situation. But in regards to OP, normal people are upper middle class too lol

@@martinebon4333I’m what I consider to be fairly normal and plan to be doing a Safari vacation next summer.

but she's right, that's the target audience for space tourism. No normal people is gonna be taking a holiday in space anytime soon

Laika already beat him by almost 70 years yo

My dog will fight your dog 😂

Does that mean 300 flights and we're done? No more helium?

If only retanking the helium was high priority to them too.

We all jokin with the risk and you go and make an actually important point... What's ya priblem?...

total helium supply. Now use your brain for two seconds, and ask. if they use more helium, and the price goes up, what happens to the total supply of helium

Nah, as long as the material doesn’t seep out of the balloon some how the helium is totally reusable and can be re compressed into a canister again and again.

When you have 100's of millions,, billions, this isn't even paper clip money, loose change in the couch money, a wedding even.

Even tho I feel like this is a Oceangate thing waiting to happen. Your post is like you are some1 who won a million dollars then you go and buy a million dollar car and later to complain about how expensive it is to service it.

Our planet is in space. But life on earth is not because our atmosphere does not allow space to enter

Technically, we are in space already, just stuck on a single planet. But in common and legal parlance, "space" is anything and anywhere beyond Earth, at a minimum of 100 kilometers up.

😂😂😂😂 titanium carbon fiber hull😂😂😂

We used to call it an accident.

You can't go any further than that because there is no space

@@Dan-ms4ln seriously dude, put the pipe down.

100,000 ft has been the standard for being considered Space for decades. Look at the X-15 program and how many of those pilots are considered to be astronauts because of the altitudes they achieved during their test flights.

@@Dan-ms4ln Actually you can. NASA has sent balloons as high as 160,000 feet but that's considered about the upper limit for a balloon. And you can't go higher because there's not enough atmospheric pressure to keep the helium inside the balloon. It would pop.

😂😂😂

It actually uses MadCatz for even more savings!

with bluetooth/wifi connection

Exactly! 😂.. bruh I’m still exploring this world. This shows there groups of people living a wayy different thrill life to most people and this is a stretching it.

@@sirlevis7869 Definitely. The wealth gap is huge now.

Right $100k vacation on the low end for a family of 4

i wanna "like" this, but that is super sad 😮.

Sigh. That's not how science works. The ballon and capsule will never raise high enough to reach orbit or space. Otherwise we wouldn't need rockets to launch satellites or go to the ISS. Think!

These companies are like theranos, what pathetic is news media promotes them without doing any actual journalism.

Pretty obvious she's in marketing, not R&D/Engineering.

'these experiences are highly hyperthetical'

What if they still see it's flat ?

@@ahmedzakikhan7639 they won't

If you spend your money in this you’re not rich, being rich and being wealthy are two different things

Same way you land other hot air balloons

You would just take a bite out of it since it’s made up of cheese

😂😂😂

Actually to cut costs so we can not tax the rich any more than a street sweeper, FAA went to point to point air traffic control, this lets planes go wherever they want all over the sky, creating a safe zone for ballon to go up and land isn't like in the old days when most flights were in corridors. As planes will need to avoid an area 100's of miles across since these are uncontrolled flights subject to stratospheric winds easily over 50 mph, and last all day, 1,000's of commercial jet liners and their 10,000's of customers are going to face longer flight times, which will no doubt be a surprise to virtually all of them. Sorry folks our flight time today will include and extra 20 mins so all of you w family, car service waiting, all of you racing to a meeting, you in 15l with the new heart for that poor kid, hope everyone can handle the wait. Got to keep it in perspective, we can't expect a dozen of our most important top percent to miss blowing an employees entire annual salary on a joy ride to the stratosphere can we.

They have a parachute. But... the Hydrogen people. Just asking for a disaster. Helium guy who was like we want to do a few more years of testing before manned missions even tested hydrogen, but it went boom.