Comments on: Aerostat, stat!

By: doob

doob — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:50:00 +0000

And what it is down there? Launch site or what?

Dave Taylor — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 01:26:16 +0000

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
is the link to the Aerostat near me, unfortunately a remote area with poor resolution.

Glenn — Fri, 27 May 2005 05:37:00 +0000

…and here’s the one in Eagle Pass, TX (hi-rez).

The shadow is NNW of this image.

Glenn — Fri, 27 May 2005 05:24:28 +0000

Not a hi-rez, unfortunately, but here’s an aerostat site near Matagorda, Texas.

If you zoom out a couple steps, you can see the cooling pond for the South Texas Nuclear Power Plant (northwest).

robert w — Wed, 18 May 2005 13:58:31 +0000

oh yeah it does look like kenny. uncanny. Obviously the makers of South Park went there for inspiration

pubs — Wed, 18 May 2005 13:28:26 +0000

Oh my god! they killed kenny!!
Can you see it?!
oh…ok!

Kristian Twombly — Sun, 15 May 2005 12:40:11 +0000

Dang - I suggested this one a few weeks ago…I wonder if I’m doing something wrong…..

robertw — Sun, 15 May 2005 09:58:38 +0000

Looks like a DJ’s disc player from way up here

huphtur — Sat, 14 May 2005 16:57:52 +0000

if you pan to the left, you will see the balloon’s shadow