Seems like dig on Columbia, Palestine and balloons may have been missed.
https://www.palestineherald.com/news/local_news/remembering-columbia-locals-officials-recall-day-of-shuttle-tragedy/article_c8e5c9ab-3c24-5209-9e23-26b863f82b82.html#:~:text=The%20Columbia%20Scientific%20Balloon%20Facility%2C%20then%20known%20simply,members%20of%20Columbia’s%20crew%20died%20in%20the%20blast.
I haven't gone very far with this, but the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility seems like it would be worth a dig. I do wonder about "home grown" balloons.
>nothing vaccine-related to see here
What a relief. If it were vaccine related it could happen again.
Yes. That is the purpose of local government: To protect local people.
There is a concept, maybe posted here previously whereby big business gets a charter to operate granted by the locality. If the business does evil its charter can be revoked. This is my admittedly, limited, understanding.
I will need to do some things IRL soon, but the information about the Balloon facility in Palestine TX looks very interesting.
https://www.csbf.nasa.gov
Only spent a few minutes on the web site for the Palestine, TX balloon facility but there seems to me some interesting things.
A lot of the pages no longer seem to be updated for one.
Some of the descriptive comments seem related to the "Chinese" (?) balloon that was "shot down".
https://www.csbf.nasa.gov/balloons.html
Here's a brief quote about payloads: "Payload separation creates a large tear in the balloon material, which releases any remaining helium. The balloon also falls to the ground, where it s retrieved and discarded. The balloon and payload land approximately 45 minutes after separation."
Well this looks super creepy:
https://feesgarden.substack.com/p/dialog-ai-part-three-big-data-convergence