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6-year-old takes off in family's experimental helium-balloon craft (well, not really)
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recap: balloon landed, no kid, they're searching, people saw something fall out of the balloon.
I don't know, looking at that it doesn't look like it could carry 100lbs. That's waaaaaay too small. Think of a mylar balloon, how much can those carry? Hardly anything, they can't even pick up the tiny piece of plastic that holds them down. No way in hell that balloon could carry a kid.
300 regular sized balloons can pick up a 300 or so pound sumo guy... I saw it on a cartoon network show one day...
EDIT: Something around there...
What? I watch Adult Swim, and sometimes when I get home, the TV is tuned to Cartoon Network, so I watch
EDIT: http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/dude/index.html
Who dont, you also have to figure wind and lift, possible to pull something up for a limited time. It dont look good to me. The picture of the boy shown made him look a little on the petite side. Lets hope he is hiding.42.
I hate math.
For those who think about helicopter can bring it down (safely), you need to see this:
http://www.todaysbigfail.com/view/20090602
It took mythbusters around 3500 balloons to lift a LITTLE kid who weighted 44 pounds (20kg).
Yes, over three thousand balloons.
My bad, I read it wrong.
Like I said, I wasn't sure as I wasn't really paying attention.
This craft doesn't seem to have enough volume to contain same amount of helium as 3500 regular balloons.
Maybe 300 large weather balloons, but not the regular size balloons..
Maybe 300 large weather balloons, but not the regular size balloons..
Found alive and OK at his house.
Saw crawl on TV.
Found in a box, in the attic.
On our local Denver news they said the boy was hiding in a box in the attic in the garage. They said he may have been afraid he would be in trouble when he saw all the people looking for him so he hid.
Found alive and OK at his house.
Saw crawl on TV.
Found in a box, in the attic.
Guess the boy can live another day as a potential candidate for the Darwin Award.
The balloon was not made to carry a person. The parents were storm chasers according to the article. Sounds to me like the little kid just got curious and took off...
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.balloon/index.html
EDIT- CNN added to the story, glad he's alive.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.balloon/index.html
EDIT- CNN added to the story, glad he's alive.
They seem to like attention. They go on “Wife Swap” and post YouTube videos of themselves. Now, they’re going to be on every talk show in existence by tomorrow morning. Hello, $$$.
Who wants to take bets? Will it be the Today Show or Good Morning America tomorrow morning? I’m gonna go with “Today” and possibly a Meredith Viera interview.
Who wants to take bets? Will it be the Today Show or Good Morning America tomorrow morning? I’m gonna go with “Today” and possibly a Meredith Viera interview.
I really don't think this was any sort of grab for attention beyond a couple of parents legitimately freaking out that their child was being carried off in a runaway balloon.
Glad the kid was found.
I'm betting the kid wasn't glad he was found.
Out of line, junior. Way out of line.