Originally Posted by
Winemaker
Why would you need a person to release gas or ballast? Seems like it would be a simple servo design operation a valve or actuator.
Commanded by whom, from where ?
Are you suggesting that the balloon is being controlled remotely from Beijing ?
Or that the entire mission is being performed autonomously, presumably to follow a pre-defined track (otherwise there wouldn't be any point in having a manoeuvring capability) ?
Occam's Razor says it's going where the wind has blown it.
