> Some types of high-altitude balloons can easily take you to the edge of what most people consider space, which is at 100km above sea level. Or around ten time

> Some types of high-altitude balloons can easily take you to the edge of what most people consider space, which is at 100km above sea level. Or around ten times the distance from earth than your average commercial airplane. It's 18-37km for balloons, with the record being 53km. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_balloon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_balloon In the end, any discussion on this turned rough the moment the article started with 'Elementary school students in Canada recently schooled NASA scientists'. It makes everything suddenly a students vs scientists thing, and the details in the article are lacking or inconsistent. In my eyes, it should just be removed from Hacker News. We don't need this clickbait here.