sure everyone has seen it on tv now
Pretty sure the kid is dead.
way to represent colorado damocles
Pretty sure the kid is dead.
way to represent colorado damocles
balloon story
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This was surreal. However, since the family was on "Wife Swap" my knee-jerk reaction is that this is a hoax and they sent the kid over to Grandma's place for the day.
That was one cool balloon though.
BTW - We don't get to watch news at work... so It was amazing that I even knew what you were talking about. One of the other Manglers had it up on CNN.com.
That was one cool balloon though.
BTW - We don't get to watch news at work... so It was amazing that I even knew what you were talking about. One of the other Manglers had it up on CNN.com.
Yeah, that's my guess.
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This family was crazy. They took their kids into the middle of storms to prove their crackpot scientific "theories".
blackascoal
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Sad story .. if it's real .. and many will be angry if it isn't.
Cool balloon though.
Cool balloon though.
ib1 there was another compartment that fell off
Thorn
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If it should turn out to be a hoax, the family will be liable for some pretty hefty bills, not to mention at least misdemeanor charges!
ive been watching the news all day and i have seen nothing to indicate this is a hoax.
ib1yysguy
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Unless that compartment was a blimp, it's too small.
SmarterthanYou
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i thought you were all about science? you should approve of those parents teaching their kids about science at such an early age.
SmarterthanYou
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a 6 year old could definitely fit in that compartment.
ib1yysguy
Junior Member
It's not a matter of fitting in the stupid compartment. It's a matter of getting enough lift from a balloon no bigger than a few trash bags.
As soon as I find out the size of the balloon I'll do the math.
Thorn
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It was circular, 20 feet across, and with the little basket on the bottom, a total of five feet high.
ib1yysguy
Junior Member
That's about 1300 square feet of balloon volume by my rough calculation.
You need 4445.454545454545 grams of helium to lift a 60 lb kid. Someone figure out how much that comes out to volumetrically in Denver (high alt). It's going to be huge.
SmarterthanYou
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that I can see. on that thought also, IF the kid fell out of it, wouldn't that just make the balloon continue to rise?
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This isn't science. This is pseudoscience. Bullshit that parades around as if it's science. They wanted to find magnetic fields in hurricanes, but apparently had little understanding of magnetism or storms, and no reason to believe a physical mechanism existed to provide such a link. They basically just guessed. They searched for extraterrestrials. That's pseudoscience, pop science, not science.