That’s why they make up shit like this. It’s supposed to be a “North Korea is so dumb they don’t even know this basic primary school science fact.” It’s designed to make them seem weak and stupid.
I think there are some kinds that can at least get to a height that looks like space, though looking it up I see lots of carefully worded claims about “the edge of space” and sometimes the stratosphere.
To reach orbit you need to accelerate to over 16,000 miles per hour and leave the atmosphere. A balloon can’t rise above the point of neutral buoyancy, which is necessarily inside the atmosphere (i.e. not in space).
Hot air balloons can’t make it anywhere close to even the stratosphere, much less space right?
That’s why they make up shit like this. It’s supposed to be a “North Korea is so dumb they don’t even know this basic primary school science fact.” It’s designed to make them seem weak and stupid.
I think there are some kinds that can at least get to a height that looks like space, though looking it up I see lots of carefully worded claims about “the edge of space” and sometimes the stratosphere.
To reach orbit you need to accelerate to over 16,000 miles per hour and leave the atmosphere. A balloon can’t rise above the point of neutral buoyancy, which is necessarily inside the atmosphere (i.e. not in space).