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🪤 A California dairy tried to capture its methane, and it worked
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A California dairy tried to capture its methane, and it worked
A giant, balloon-like tarp stretches over a lagoon of manure on a Central Valley dairy farm, concealing a quiet but remarkable transformation. Methane, a potent climate-warming gas, is being captured and cleaned instead of released into the atmosphere.

If you wish to study a granfalloon,
Just remove the skin of a toy balloon.
-Bokonon, religious leader from
-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle 1963
#Vonnegut #Writing #Author

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Balloon Animal Maps with Applications to the Cohomology of Hypertoric Hitchin Systems
Evan Sundbo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12368 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Balloon Animal Maps with Applications to the Cohomology of Hypertoric Hitchin Systems
In this article we introduce the notion of a balloon animal map between broken toric varieties and construct several long exact sequences in cohomology related to them. We give a new proof of the deletion-contraction relation on hypertoric Hitchin systems of Dansco-Mcbreen-Shende and present some refinements of it. The end result is a formula for the Poincaré polynomial of any hypertoric Hitchin system associated to a graph with first Betti number 2 along with a recipe to calculate the Poincar…

Telescope Tilt System for the POEMMA Balloon Radio Mission
Lawrence Wiencke (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), James Brague (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Ash Fox-Smith (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Auston Froid (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Levi Bar-On (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Stephen Meyer (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Josh Moses (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Ben Stillwell (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration)

Telescope Tilt System for the POEMMA Balloon Radio Mission
The Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics Balloon with Radio mission (PBR) will point above Earth's limb to measure PeV energy cosmic rays, and record star images to monitor optical focusing in situ. PBR will point below Earth's limb to search for earth-skimming neutrinos. PBR will also measure EeV energy cosmic rays by tilting as far down as the nadir direction. All of these searches will require changing and measuring the tilt angle of a single large integrated telescope and radio ant…

Here's the Great Reno Balloon Race "Dawn Patrol,"
-- @…
https://mastoart.social/@elaterite/115155249663848825

Bob Tregilus (@elaterite@mastoart.social)
Attached: 1 image And there's the Great Reno Balloon Race "Dawn Patrol," welp, patrolling the dawn this morning. (Single frame. Not AI slop.) 6/n #Balloon #HotAirBalloon #Night #NotAI #NightPhotography #Photography #Darktable

An aerostat over #Leszno.
#balloon

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Ween:
🎵 Blue Balloon
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Always found these hilarious, but now they're terrorism. Don't look.

Observation of the Galactic Center in the Sub-MeV Gamma-Ray Band with an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera
Tomonori Ikeda, Atsushi Takada, Taito Takemura, Kei Yoshikawa, Yuta Nakamura, Ken Onozaka, Mitsuru Abe, Yoshitaka Mizumura, Toru Tanimori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15851

Observation of the Galactic Center in the Sub-MeV Gamma-Ray Band with an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera
We report the first detection of gamma-ray emission from the Galactic center in the 150-600 keV band using a linear, imaging-spectroscopy approach used in common telescopes with an electron-tracking Compton camera (ETCC) aboard the SMILE-2+ balloon experiment. A one-day flight over Australia resulted in a significant gamma-ray detection in the light curve and revealed a $7.9σ$ excess in the image map from the Galactic center region. These results, obtained through a simple and unambiguous anal…

Dreamt artificial intelligence as we know it today, had in the future, manifested as paper balloons which occasionally exploded but mostly just drifted aimlessly while on fire, existing as a thing people had to sidestep while trying to go about their day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_ba

Fu-Go balloon bomb - Wikipedia

I know it's hopelessly naive of me (and it's going to go over like a lead balloon on here), but I often think that AI can kind of reset the scales on Brandolini's law.
You see some of this dynamic with Grok already, where despite Musk's best efforts, the poor bot just keeps outputting consensus reality.
What's more, the hardcore X crowd is more than happy to ask Grok to fact check any single tweet. There is real appetite for a quick, automated fact checker.

I really like the fall decorations at the balloon house in the neighborhood

Turns out North Korea doesn’t lie about everything, at least not the weather. Kim Jong Un upgraded their forecasting system, added real meteorologists to state TV, and pushed for accurate alerts to protect crops and people from floods and droughts.
Meanwhile, during Trump’s second presidency, Texas is underwater and the National Weather Service was struggling with staff cuts and balloon shortages. North Koreans got valid forecasts about their own country while Americans were stuck with…

Shell-Type Soft Jig for Holding Objects during Disassembly
Takuya Kiyokawa, Ryunosuke Takebayashi, Kensuke Harada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13802 https://…

Shell-Type Soft Jig for Holding Objects during Disassembly
This study addresses a flexible holding tool for robotic disassembly. We propose a shell-type soft jig that securely and universally holds objects, mitigating the risk of component damage and adapting to diverse shapes while enabling soft fixation that is robust to recognition, planning, and control errors. The balloon-based holding mechanism ensures proper alignment and stable holding performance, thereby reducing the need for dedicated jig design, highly accurate perception, precise grasping,…

Watch what happens in DC; it could be a trial balloon for elsewhere
Trump orders D.C. homeless to move out "IMMEDIATELY"
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/10/trump-dc-homeless-people-move-immediately

The Integrating Miniature Piggyback for Impulsive Solar Hard X-rays (IMPISH): a spectrometer for the GRIPS-2 balloon campaign
Reed B. Masek (University of Minnesota), William Setterberg (University of Minnesota), Dorcas Oseni (University of Minnesota), Lestat Clemmer (University of Minnesota), Lindsay Glesener (University of Minnesota), Philip Williams (University of Minnesota), John G. Sample (Montana State University), Amir Caspi (Southwest Research Institute), Demoz Gebre-Egziabher …

The Integrating Miniature Piggyback for Impulsive Solar Hard X-rays (IMPISH): a spectrometer for the GRIPS-2 balloon campaign
The Integrating Miniature Piggyback for Impulsive Solar Hard X-rays (IMPISH) is a piggyback mission originally designed for the second flight of the Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares (GRIPS-2) Antarctic balloon. IMPISH will take measurements of collimated, full-Sun X-ray spectra with the goal of detecting sub-second variations (order of tens of milliseconds) of nonthermal X-ray emission during the impulsive phase of large solar flares to probe particle acceleration mechanisms driven…

The Optical and Mechanical Design of POEMMA Balloon with Radio
Eric Mayotte (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Austin Cummings (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Paul Degarate (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Neville DeWitt Pierrat (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Johannes Eser (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), William Finch (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Julia Burton-Heibges (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Tobias Heibges (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Eric Mentzell (for the JE…

The Optical and Mechanical Design of POEMMA Balloon with Radio
POEMMA Balloon with Radio (PBR) is a NASA super-pressure balloon mission building toward the proposed Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) dual satellite mission. In its planned 2027 launch, PBR will study Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays, Neutrinos, and High-Altitude Horizontal Airshowers from 33 km above the Earth. By operating at balloon altitudes, PBR will provide a novel vantage point to study air-shower physics while offering competitive instantaneous exposure to neutrinos …

@… @… It’s somewhat tragic-comic how the answer to “How do we handle large-scale refactoring?” Is “Don’t do them”.
I see so many people who are just way too eager to balloon their changes to being these “Oh I just rewrote the whole p…

Some impressions from the double #stratosphere balloon launch in Bochum, Germany, today - more pictures in the album https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=dan.fischer.393&set=a.10230589908466338

Homan, who doesn't have a Senate-approved position and no formal authority over any agency, is a giant trial balloon, right?
Not being sarcastic.
I feel like that is his job: say something outrageous ("Of course we stop you for being brown!") and then see how it goes over, walk back what fails.
-- John Pfaff
htt…

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Hi everyone, I am the Signal Angel for "How to build and launch a high-altitude balloon project" by Aleksander Parachniewicz.
It will start at 12:35 in #Delphinus at #WHY2025. You can watch the livestream here:

A New Mechanism for ULF Wave Modulation of Energetic Electron Precipitation
L. Olifer, D. Zhou, M. Patel, I. R. Mann, M. K. Hudson, A. W. Degeling, C. O. Heinke, G. R. Sivakoff, A. Kale, S. Kasahara, S. Yokota, K. Keika, T. Hori, T. Mitani, T. Takashima, Y. Kasahara, S. Matsuda, A. Shinbori, A. Matsuoka, M. Teramoto, K. Yamamoto, I. Shinohara, Y. Miyoshi
https:…

A New Mechanism for ULF Wave Modulation of Energetic Electron Precipitation
The May 2024 geomagnetic superstorm provided the opportunity to explore how strong wave-particle interactions affect energetic electron precipitation under intense driving. Using coordinated measurements from a balloon-borne Timepix-based X-ray detector, ground-based riometers and magnetometers, and Arase satellite observations, we identified quasi-periodic bursts of energetic electron precipitation coincident with Pc5 ultra low frequency (ULF) wave oscillations. Arase satellite data revealed e…

SAMPLE -- Stratospheric Altitude Microbiology Probe for Life Existence -- A Method of Collection of Stratospheric Samples Using Balloon-Borne Payload System
Margarita Safonova, Bharat Chandra P, Binukumar G. Nair, Akshay Datey, Dipshikha Chakravortty, Ajin Prakash, Mahesh Babu, Shubham Ghatul, Shubhangi Jain, Rekhesh Mohan, Jayant Murthy
https://

SAMPLE -- Stratospheric Altitude Microbiology Probe for Life Existence -- A Method of Collection of Stratospheric Samples Using Balloon-Borne Payload System
The Earth possesses many environmental extremes that mimic conditions on extraterrestrial worlds. The stratosphere at 30-40 km altitude closely resembles the surface of Mars in terms of pressure, temperature, and radiation levels (UV, proton, and Galactic cosmic rays). While microbial life in the troposphere is well documented, the true upper limit of Earth's biosphere remains unclear. The stratosphere offers a promising environment to explore microbial survival in such extreme conditions. Desp…

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Richard Rodney Bennett & Members of the Bristol Ensemble:
🎵 Air Balloon and Car Chase (Travel Notes II)
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Fiona Apple:
🎵 Heavy Balloon
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POEMMA-Balloon with Radio: An Overview
J. Eser (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), A. V. Olinto (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), G. Osteria (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04302

POEMMA-Balloon with Radio: An Overview
The POEMMA-Balloon with Radio (PBR) is an Ultra Long Duration Balloon payload scheduled for launch in Spring 2027 from Wanaka, New Zealand. It will circle over the Southern Ocean for a mission duration as long as 50 days, serving as a precursor to the dual satellite mission, Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA). The PBR mission represents a significant step towards establishing a space-based multi-messenger observatory. Observations from space will enhance the statistics of th…

Modular Vacuum-Based Fixturing System for Adaptive Disassembly Workspace Integration
Haohui Pan, Takuya Kiyokawa, Tomoki Ishikura, Shingo Hamada, Genichiro Matsuda, Kensuke Harada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05936

Modular Vacuum-Based Fixturing System for Adaptive Disassembly Workspace Integration
The disassembly of small household appliances poses significant challenges due to their complex and curved geometries, which render traditional rigid fixtures inadequate. In this paper, we propose a modular vacuum-based fixturing system that leverages commercially available balloon-type soft grippers to conform to arbitrarily shaped surfaces and provide stable support during screw-removal tasks. To enable a reliable deployment of the system, we develop a stability-aware planning framework that …

XL-Calibur Polarimetry of Cyg X-1 Further Constrains the Origin of its Hard-state X-ray Emission
Hisamitsu Awaki, Matthew G. Baring, Richard Bose, Jacob Casey, Sohee Chun, Adrika Dasgupta, Pavel Galchenko, Ephraim Gau, Kazuho Goya, Tomohiro Hakamata, Takayuki Hayashi, Scott Heatwole, Kun Hu, Daiki Ishi, Manabu Ishida, Fabian Kislat, M\'ozsi Kiss, Kassi Klepper, Henric Krawczynski, Haruki Kuramoto, Lindsey Lisalda, Yoshitomo Maeda, Hironori Matsumoto, Shravan Vengalil Menon, Aiko Mi…

XL-Calibur Polarimetry of Cyg X-1 Further Constrains the Origin of its Hard-state X-ray Emission
The balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimetry mission XL-Calibur observed the Black Hole X-ray Binary (BHXRB) Cygnus X-1 (Cyg X-1) during its nearly six-day Long Duration Balloon (LDB) flight from Sweden to Canada in July 2024. The XL-Calibur observations allowed us to derive the most precise constraints to date of the Polarization Degree (PD) and Polarization Angle (PA) of the hard X-ray emission from a BHXRB. XL-Calibur observed Cyg X-1 in the hard state and measured a $\sim$19-64 keV PD of ($5.0^…

Great Observatories Maturation: a Review of NASA Astrophysics Development Through Suborbital Rocket and Balloon Programs
Drew M. Miles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07289

Great Observatories Maturation: a Review of NASA Astrophysics Development Through Suborbital Rocket and Balloon Programs
The NASA Great Observatories Maturation Program is a development plan to efficiently and effectively develop large, strategic astrophysics missions. Suborbital rocket and balloon programs have long been a key development tool for enabling large missions in NASA astrophysics. We review the significance of these suborbital missions in the preceding decades to demonstrate their contributions to the Great Observatories Maturation Program for the Habitable Worlds Observatory and beyond. We show that…

Testing a Computed Tomography Imaging Spectrometer for Earth Observations on the HEIMDAL Stratospheric Balloon Mission
Mads Juul Ahleb{\ae}k, Albertino Antonio Almeida Bach, Loui Collin-Enoch, Christian Cordes, Boas Hermansson, Christian Hald Jessen, S{\o}ren Peter J{\o}rgensen, Tobias J{\o}rgensen, Viktor Ulrich Kanstrup, Laurits Tv{\ae}rmose Nielsen, Jes Enok Steinm\"uller, Mads Svanborg Peters, Jonathan Merrison, Ren\'e Lynge Eriksen, Christoffer Karoff, Mads Toudal Frandse…

Testing a Computed Tomography Imaging Spectrometer for Earth Observations on the HEIMDAL Stratospheric Balloon Mission
Stratospheric High Altitude Balloons (HABs) have great potential as a remote sensing platform for Earth Observations that complements orbiting satellites and low flying drones. At altitudes between 20-35 kms, HABs operate significantly closer to ground than orbiting satellites, but significantly higher than most drones. HABs therefore offer a unique potential to deliver high spatial resolution imaging with large area coverage. Another two imaging parameters that are important for Earth Observat…

Scheduling follow-up observations of energetic transients with the neutrino target scheduler (NuTS)
Tobias Heibges, Claire Gu\'epin, Luke Kupari, Hannah Wistrand, Randy Lahm, Johannes Eser, Mary Hall Reno, Tonia M. Venters, Lawrence Wiencke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13844

Scheduling follow-up observations of energetic transients with the neutrino target scheduler (NuTS)
Space missions offer unique opportunities for studying ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays and neutrinos by leveraging secondary emissions generated by extensive air showers (EAS) resulting from their interactions with the atmosphere or Earth's crust. Detecting UHE neutrinos associated with transient sources holds great potential for unraveling the origins of UHE cosmic rays and the physical processes driving their production. Stratospheric balloon missions, illustrated recently by the Extreme …

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Crumb:
🎵 Balloon
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Prospects for PBR detection of KM3-230213A-like events
Angela V. Olinto (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Luis A. Anchordoqui (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Austin Cummings (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Johannes Eser (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Diksha Garg (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Claire Gu\'epin (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Tobias Heibges (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), John F. Krizmanic (for the JEM-EUSO collaboration), Thomas C. Paul (for the JEM-EUS…

Prospects for PBR detection of KM3-230213A-like events
POEMMA-Balloon with Radio (PBR) is a scaled-down version of the Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) design, optimized to be flown as a payload on one of NASA's sub-orbital super pressure balloons circling the Earth above the southern oceans for a mission duration of more than 20 days. One of the main science objectives of PBR is to follow up astrophysical event alerts in search of neutrinos with very high energy ($10^8 \lesssim E_ν/{\rm GeV} \lesssim 10^{10}$). Of particular…

EUSO-SPB2 Cosmic Ray Searches and Observations
George Filippatos (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05147 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

EUSO-SPB2 Cosmic Ray Searches and Observations
The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon 2 (EUSO-SPB2) flew in May of 2023, marking an important step towards the observation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) and neutrino-induced showers from space. The ultimate goal of this endeavor is to complement ground-based detectors and achieve unprecedented exposure and nearly uniform full-sky coverage at the highest energies, thereby enabling charged particle astronomy and enriching the multi-messenger approach to hig…

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Development of Space Qualified Signal Processing Readout Electronics for HabWorlds and Origins Space Telescope Detector and Arrays
Tracee Jamison-Hooks, Lynn Miles, Sanetra Newman-Bailey, Oketa Basha, Sarah E Kay, Sean Bryan, Philip Mauskopf, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Jason Glen, Sumit Dahal, Adrian Sinclair, Kathryn Chamberlain
https://arx…

Development of Space Qualified Signal Processing Readout Electronics for HabWorlds and Origins Space Telescope Detector and Arrays
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), a flagship ultraviolet/optical/infrared space telescope recommended by the National Academies' Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics, will require detector technologies capable of supporting significantly larger pixel-count arrays than previous missions. Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs), naturally suited to microwave multiplexing readout, are already in use across several balloon-borne missions with FPGA-based systems. To trans…