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Weather Balloon - just found one

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  • 16-06-2017 7:03pm
    #1
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,768 ✭✭✭✭


    I just found a Weather Balloon on our farm. If has a website listed on it;
    www.meteomodem.com

    but there's nowhere on the site about returning it. What should I do? :D

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #2
    crazyderk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,058 ✭✭✭crazyderk


    Are you sure its a weather balloon? This could be Roswell 2.0 OP

    Ah no JK theres a contact us section. Maybe pop em an email about it?

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


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    #3
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Those balloons come back to earth because they eventually get so high they burst hence the are throw away items.

    I don't know about Ireland but I gave a couple I found to the geography department of a school in the UK as one of the teachers thought they were good to show the kids who were learning something about the weather.


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    mikeecho
    Registered Users Posts: 5,107 ✭✭✭mikeecho


    Giving to a local school, sounds like a great plan.


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    #5
    pad199207
    Registered Users Posts: 7,177 ✭✭✭pad199207


    Finders keepers


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    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,753 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    I'm not sure if they actually want them back anymore, I don't think they are worth so much nowadays


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    tphase
    Registered Users Posts: 1,108 ✭✭✭tphase


    the sondes ME use cost about €100. They have no interest in getting them back.

    If the sensors work, it would be a nice school project to build a little met station

    Or you could put it on your mantlepiece :D


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    #8
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,931 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Any pics? What else was attached besides the balloon?


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