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Found weather balloon

  • 13-02-2020 1:45pm
    #1
    Longboard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 290 ✭✭


    Came across this today.

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Comments

  • #2
    Reckless Abandonment
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    Cool. Any note saying there it came from or to send it back ?


  • #3
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Email the manufacturer name on front of unit.


  • #4
    dak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭dak


    No need to return.. they ask you to dispose of batteries etc . Ballon burst when it got to 30km up!


  • #5
    B0jangles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    Yeah, the company just ask you to dispose of the parts carefully - cool find though!

    http://www.meteomodem.com/sondefound.html


  • #6
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Keep it on a shelf or frame it... Cool find alright.


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  • #7
    NuttyMcNutty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 115 ✭✭NuttyMcNutty


    The aliens got away though?


  • #8
    Danno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    It would be interesting to find out where it came from, where it landed and what date it was launched!

    Great find!


  • #9
    BlueSkyDay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭BlueSkyDay


    Maybe I'm wrong but met eireann release them daily..

    Ring them with the info you have and a big maybe might be one of theirs


  • #10
    mikeecho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,267 ✭✭✭mikeecho


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    Cool find.
    I'm pretty sure that they are disposable,
    You're safe enough to keep it.

    Edit... Looks like I'm wrong.. contact the details on the box for return details (or keep it)


  • #11
    bingobars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 156 ✭✭bingobars


    Put some new batteries in and drive around with it in the boot of the car for a few months??


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  • #12
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,602 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Get it going again and use it to recreate the film "Up"?


  • #13
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,576 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    bingobars wrote: »
    Put some new batteries in and drive around with it in the boot of the car for a few months??

    Climate change alert.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #14
    Gaoth Laidir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,221 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Where did you find it? It could have come from Valentia


  • #15
    Longboard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 290 ✭✭Longboard


    It was found near Clonakilty, west cork yesterday. It's not the first time we found one. The last time we sent it back to Met Eireann in Cahersiveen.

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  • #16
    Gaoth Laidir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,221 ✭✭✭Gaoth Laidir


    Definitely from Valentia so.


  • #17
    Longboard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 290 ✭✭Longboard


    If it was, that was roughly a horizontal distance of 99km travelled


  • #18
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,451 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    Longboard wrote: »
    If it was, that was roughly a horizontal distance of 99km travelled

    I am sure they very often travel a lot further.


  • #19
    fiona_b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 ✭fiona_b


    Oh my, looks cool!!


  • #20
    tphase
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭tphase


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    I am sure they very often travel a lot further.
    A friend of mine found one (an ozone sonde) on St. Macdara's Island which is just off Mace Head, distance about 153km. It had been there for a while and was in pretty bad nick.
    The OP's find looks like it might still be usable, might be worth having a play with it.

    ME have no interest in getting them back


  • #21
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,761 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Back in the 80's had a weather balloon land on the farm, but they didn't have the technology of today.


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  • #22
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,046 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    It's a pity they couldn't find some new technology that doesn't require rubbish to fall from the sky. :rolleyes:

    At least they should nearly have a tracker on the things and an appointed person travelling around on an eco friendly horse to pick up after themselves.. :p


  • #23
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    RobertKK wrote: »
    Back in the 80's had a weather balloon land on the farm, but they didn't have the technology of today.

    When I was at school, back in the 50s, I found one in England, A lot of material etc. The science teacher at school managed to "persuade" it off me though.


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