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Re:Google Loon balloon crashes near Yakima by jacquesm on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @09:54AM (#7840155)
At the speed your average jet is travelling and the fact that approximately half the traffic is at night I'd hope for a radar transponder on the balloon (or at least some kind of reflector) because I highly doubt you'd be able to respond in time when going on visual cues alone, you'd need at least a few kilometers warning.
Re:Google Loon balloon crashes near Yakima by plantain on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @11:07AM (#7840617)
They have ADS-B transponders. You see them sometimes on flightradar24 floating around at FL650.
Re:Google Loon balloon crashes near Yakima by plantain on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @12:42PM (#7841246)
Re:Google Loon balloon crashes near Yakima by jacquesm on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @06:17PM (#7843069)
> The helium balloons are all “floating” around 1,000 feet to the southeast of New Zealand

I can't make soup of that.