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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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).