if you get enough of them.
http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/ ... 7dbae.html
No, it is not a good idea. No, it would not be fun.
The answer to your kid's question is 'Yes'
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BackInTex
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The answer to your kid's question is 'Yes'
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
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TheCalvinator24
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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TheCalvinator24 wrote:They did this on MythBusters. To get a small child off the ground took 1000s of balloons. The idea that an adult got lifted away is incredible.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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TheConfessor
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It's not incredible to me. There was a well-documented incident in 1997 that got a lot of media attention.TheCalvinator24 wrote:They did this on MythBusters. To get a small child off the ground took 1000s of balloons. The idea that an adult got lifted away is incredible.
http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/walters.asp
Maybe I should pitch the networks on a proposed new show called "Mythbusters Buster."
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BackInTex
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There is a difference between 'party baloons' mentioned in the story and seen in the Mythbusters picture and weather balloons discussed in the Snopes article.TheConfessor wrote:It's not incredible to me. There was a well-documented incident in 1997 that got a lot of media attention.TheCalvinator24 wrote:They did this on MythBusters. To get a small child off the ground took 1000s of balloons. The idea that an adult got lifted away is incredible.
http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/walters.asp
Maybe I should pitch the networks on a proposed new show called "Mythbusters Buster."
Of course logic does say that if 1 party balloon can lift a 1 oz. bag of birdseed then 1600 balloons would lift a less than 100 lb. kid.
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
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TheConfessor
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The same guy did an earlier flight in January. The winds were different that time, and he wound up in Argentina.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... 7712.story
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... 7712.story
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TheCalvinator24
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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They have bigger parties in Rio.TheCalvinator24 wrote:The balloons in the picture are not party balloons. He had some large diameter balloons made of heavier material than typical party balloons.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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