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I Hope These Dont Burst!

Posted by: Benmw on the 30th 2007f March 2007 | Comments: (11) |

Alacrity Posts: 3296	Posted by: Alacrity on the 30th 2007f Mar @ 11:15
	It's an oldie but a goodie. It's a wonder the idiot didn't get killed.

mattf485 Posts: 254	Posted by: mattf485 on the 30th 2007f Mar @ 13:57
	Looks fun.

KILLERBE.. Posts: 873	Posted by: KILLERBEE on the 30th 2007f Mar @ 18:04
	he would need a lot more balloons than that. it was proved on mythbusters

Phoenix9.. Posts: 875	Posted by: Phoenix911 on the 30th 2007f Mar @ 22:02
	Yer this is fake, it took over 2000 balloons of the same size to lift a toddler of the ground on mythbusters.

yingjai Posts: 125	Posted by: yingjai on the 30th 2007f Mar @ 23:22
	you guys cant even see the top...

thegreat.. Posts: 1606	Posted by: thegreatone on the 31st 2007f Mar @ 00:26
	yeah, they should have taken a wider view shot.

Alacrity Posts: 3296	Posted by: Alacrity on the 31st 2007f Mar @ 05:58
	I don't lnow if the photo is a fake but: in 1982 Larry Walters had 42 weather baloons each one measuring 7 ft. in dia. with which he reached 16K feet. Anyway, heres the story: On July 2nd, 1982, Larry tied 42 helium-filled balloons to a Sears lawn chair in the backyard of his girlfriend's house in San Pedro, California. With the help of his ground crew, Larry then secured himself into the lawn chair which was anchored to the bumper of a friend's car by two nylon tethers. He took with him many supplies, including a BB gun to shoot out the balloons when he was ready to descend. His goal was to sail across the desert and hopefully make it to the Rocky Mountains in a few days. But things didn't quite work out for Larry. After his crew purposely cut the first tether, the second one also snapped which shot Larry into the LA sky at over 1,000 feet per minute. So fast was his ascent that he lost his glasses. He then climbed to over 16,000 feet. For several hours he drifted in the cold air near the LA and Long Beach airports. A TWA pilot first spotted Larry and radioed the tower that he was passing a guy in a lawn chair at 16,000! Larry started shooting out a few balloons to start his descent but had accidentally dropped it. He eventually landed in a Long Beach neighborhood. Although he was entangled in some power lines, he was uninjured. There you go, straight out of the land of fruits and nuts: california.

jelleoel.. Posts: 1408	Posted by: jelleoelle on the 31st 2007f Mar @ 08:44
	no where near enough baloons. On mythbusters they showed that you need a gigantic shitload of ballons to just lift a little child. Like a 1000 times that.

Alacrity

Posts: 3296

Posted by: Alacrity on the 31st 2007f Mar @ 14:03

Quote:

On 31-03-07 14:44 jelleoelle wrote:
no where near enough baloons. On mythbusters they showed that you need a gigantic shitload of ballons to just lift a little child. Like a 1000 times that.

To start with; the photo above is a phony. The actual flight took between 41 and 45 seven foot diameter weather baloons, strung in four widely spaced groups. I say 41 to 45 beacuse the news media mixed it up, and different news services reported 3 different numbers. While Larry Walters weight is unknown he is very slender and lightweight. If you could see the immense balloonage above his chair I don't think you could have any doubt as to their ability to carry the man. I hope Steve publishes the photo that I sent him of the actual Sears lawn chair and the news photo of the thing in flight. Apparently the FAA believed it as they fined him in excess of $4,000 and finally settled for substantly less. Larry was a guest on the Letterman show, and gave a number of motivational lectures for the next several years. He comitted suicide some 20 years later. You can still see pictures of people being weather balooned today at this website.
http://www.clusterballoon.org/intro/intro.htm l There are some great pictures.