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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Tue May 27, 2008 7:47 am
and sometimes when you look up there are all those balloons that kids have lost.
uh-oh!
Saskatchewan — A French skydiver's hope to set a new free-fall record might have come to an end on Tuesday when his ride to the sky left without him.
The helium balloon Michel Fournier was going to use to soar to the stratosphere detached from the capsule he was going to use to jump from 130,000 feet, about 25 miles high.
It happened after the balloon was inflated on the ground at the airport in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. The balloon drifted away into the sky without the capsule.
Fournier appeared disappointed as left the capsule and walked to the hanger. He was hugged by members of his entourage.
The balloon was reported to have cost at least $200,000 and Fournier was said to have already exhausted his finances. His handlers planned a media briefing for later Tuesday.
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.
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BackInTex
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by BackInTex » Tue May 27, 2008 8:26 am
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:and sometimes when you look up there are all those balloons that kids have lost.
uh-oh!
Saskatchewan — A French skydiver's hope to set a new free-fall record might have come to an end on Tuesday when his ride to the sky left without him.
The helium balloon Michel Fournier was going to use to soar to the stratosphere detached from the capsule he was going to use to jump from 130,000 feet, about 25 miles high.
It happened after the balloon was inflated on the ground at the airport in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. The balloon drifted away into the sky without the capsule.
Fournier appeared disappointed as left the capsule and walked to the hanger. He was hugged by members of his entourage.
The balloon was reported to have cost at least $200,000 and Fournier was said to have already exhausted his finances. His handlers planned a media briefing for later Tuesday.
More like Dorothy standing there watching the Wizard float off in the balloon. Next time I would suggest some ruby slippers for Mr. Fournier .
..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)
