6 yr. old alone in runaway experimental balloon (1 Viewer)

[General Malaise]

Suddenly, CNN is all skeptical of this. Way to ferret out the facts here. Jesus, these people are hopeless.

Score one for Fox News.

 

[Pooh Tong and Nemo]

School wasnt in session today is what they are saying

 

[Leroy Hoard]

If the kid is not in the balloon how can we watch him?

 

[B-Deep]

well at least we know everything is ok because this thread is becoming the same garbage as everything else in the FFA

media is stupidcnn is a jokewe all knew this was emptystupid talking headsi see al sharpton refernces nowblah blah blah

 

[Tigran Petrosian]

http://www.thepsyiencedetectives.com/

They accept PayPal, folks.

I'm just getting a blank page on that link. What is it?

A bunch of morons (including the dad of this missing kid) spewing a bunch of nonsense about magnetic fields causing tornadoes, hurricanes, and tides.

 

[joffer]

kind of like a "kid fell down a well" story in the other direction.

 

[The_Hoser]

http://www.thepsyiencedetectives.com/

They accept PayPal, folks.

I'm just getting a blank page on that link. What is it?

Already been pulled down?

 

[Sammy B]

Child Protective Services has to get involved at some point, no? Taking your kids to chase storms?! Wow.

 

[-jb-]

Where the eff is the father? He designed the thing...I would think he would know what it could and could not lift.

 

[Fat Nick]

One cubic foot of helium will lift about 28.2 grams

1 pound = 453.59237 grams

Average 9 y/o boy 61.6 lbs.

Average 9 y/o boy in grams = ~27,947 grams

Which woudl require ~991 cubic feet of helium.

Balloon was proported to be 20' in diameter which is a surface of ~1256 square feet in area...so it wouldn't have to be THAT tall, which it didn't appear to be.

Obviously not factoring in the weight of the balloon, but I think now that it IS feasable that this could lift a kid...although not quickly.

 

[Dexter]

Ok, assume this is a hoax...where the heck is the kid? Locked in the basement or something? They had people searching the ground for him for 3 hours.

School?

 

[Sarnoff]

well at least we know everything is ok because this thread is becoming the same garbage as everything else in the FFA

Yah, well, its threads like this that make me call FBG a cesspool. I was raised as a christian and I was brought up to help the less fortunate. But you get PatsWillWin losing his life to a fake organ-harvesting cop. Or you get Flying V discovering a fictitious crimescene. Or you get an Otis asking when its ok to become a thug and attack someone for bipolar disorder.I really do not want to ever be considered an FBG. This place sucks and should be shut down. But mostly this sort of crap starts at the very top. I blame Chase Stuart.

 

[Sheriff Bart]

Suddenly, CNN is all skeptical of this. Way to ferret out the facts here. Jesus, these people are hopeless.

They're acting like it was completely obvious all along.

I feel like punching somebody in the sphincter.

 

[Tigran Petrosian]

Wolf is killing me...

"Just to be precise..."

Best comedy in years.

 

[FavreCo]

well at least we know everything is ok because this thread is becoming the same garbage as everything else in the FFA

Yah, well, its threads like this that make me call FBG a cesspool. I was raised as a christian and I was brought up to help the less fortunate. But you get PatsWillWin losing his life to a fake organ-harvesting cop. Or you get Flying V discovering a fictitious crimescene. Or you get an Otis asking when its ok to become a thug and attack someone for bipolar disorder.I really do not want to ever be considered an FBG. This place sucks and should be shut down. But mostly this sort of crap starts at the very top. I blame Chase Stuart.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

kind of like a "kid fell down a well" story in the other direction.

Homer: That Timmy is a real hero!Lisa: How do you mean, Dad?Homer: Well, he fell down a well, and... he can't get out.Lisa: How does that make him a hero?Homer: Well, that's more than you did!Wiggum: Your boy picked a bad time to fall down a well. If he'd done it at the start of the fiscal year, no problemo.

 

[B-Deep]

well at least we know everything is ok because this thread is becoming the same garbage as everything else in the FFA

Yah, well, its threads like this that make me call FBG a cesspool. I was raised as a christian and I was brought up to help the less fortunate. But you get PatsWillWin losing his life to a fake organ-harvesting cop. Or you get Flying V discovering a fictitious crimescene. Or you get an Otis asking when its ok to become a thug and attack someone for bipolar disorder.I really do not want to ever be considered an FBG. This place sucks and should be shut down. But mostly this sort of crap starts at the very top. I blame Chase Stuart.

you don't have to visit the cesspoolthere's a bar down the street i think sucks, once i decided that i never went back!

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Not sure why, but it reminds me of this...

Help me! Help me!

 

[Sarnoff]

I really want to see Wolf Blitzer and his buddy there try to convert grams to pounds on that fancy telestrator they have.

 

[Death Bytes]

Given how much is posted here to criticize the media, can we just get a balloon smiley to use from now on?

 

[Doug B]

This thing made 8 pages in 2 hours. The story on pg 1 sounds horrendous ... what's the Cliffs version of pp 2-8?

Any develpments, any good non-video links?

 

[Third]

From CNN.com story

The helium balloon had been tethered to the boy's family home, the Larimer County Sheriff's Department said. The boy got into the craft Thursday morning and undid the rope anchoring it.

Solid reporting by CNN. The ropes were attached to the perimeter of the top part of the balloon. No way you can climb inside the structure and untether the ropes.What happened to common sense?

 

[parasaurolophus]

this is ridiculous

 

[-jb-]

Given how much is posted here to criticize the media, can we just get a balloon smiley to use from now on?

:balloon:

 

[Death Bytes]

This thing made 8 pages in 2 hours. The story on pg 1 sounds horrendous ... what's the Cliffs version of pp 2-8?Any develpments, any good non-video links?

Apparently it was nothing more than a JiffyPop promotion.

 

[Ozymandias]

I really want to see Wolf Blitzer and his buddy there try to convert grams to pounds on that fancy telestrator they have.

Hey, that thing is an alchemist's worst nightmare. It can take gold and convert it to ####.

 

[Doug B]

Shorter thread on another board is speculating that the kid was never on/in the balloon ... that it was too small & flimsy to lift a child. 411?

 

[Schlzm]

From CNN.com story

The helium balloon had been tethered to the boy's family home, the Larimer County Sheriff's Department said. The boy got into the craft Thursday morning and undid the rope anchoring it.

Solid reporting by CNN. The ropes were attached to the perimeter of the top part of the balloon. No way you can climb "inside the structure" and untether the ropes.What happened to common sense?

Sold to the highest bidder and placed in a climate controlled secure location for future reference.Also, SHHH.

Schlzm

 

[ODoyleRules]

Not sure why, but it reminds me of this...

Help me! Help me!

I had pictured Badger Meyer from Better Off Dead.

 

[krista4]

This hot-air balloon expert is great. They might have wanted to think about having him on before, for instance, reporting there was a kid in the balloon.

 

[B-Deep]

This thing made 8 pages in 2 hours. The story on pg 1 sounds horrendous ... what's the Cliffs version of pp 2-8?Any develpments, any good non-video links?

cnn sucksno kid in the baloonwe all knew that from the startmedia is awfultalking heads suck (not sure how they got dragged into it, once in a lifetime was fun)not sure where the kid is, though it'll be obvious once we find him

 

[Doug B]

This thing made 8 pages in 2 hours. The story on pg 1 sounds horrendous ... what's the Cliffs version of pp 2-8?

Any develpments, any good non-video links?

Apparently it was nothing more than a JiffyPop promotion.

C'mon, DB ... my brother in initials. Shoot me straight.

 

[Angry Beavers]

One cubic foot of helium will lift about 28.2 grams1 pound = 453.59237 gramsAverage 9 y/o boy 61.6 lbs.Average 9 y/o boy in grams = ~27,947 gramsWhich woudl require ~991 cubic feet of helium.Balloon was proported to be 20' in diameter which is a surface of ~1256 square feet in area...so it wouldn't have to be THAT tall, which it didn't appear to be.Obviously not factoring in the weight of the balloon, but I think now that it IS feasable that this could lift a kid...although not quickly.

per CNN 5 ft high5 x 1256 = 6280

 

[FavreCo]

This thing made 8 pages in 2 hours. The story on pg 1 sounds horrendous ... what's the Cliffs version of pp 2-8?Any develpments, any good non-video links?

Apparently it was nothing more than a JiffyPop promotion.

If JiffyPop is smart, they run with this.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Another Limbaugh publicity stunt designed to show how gullible the media is?

 

[B-Deep]

i wish the army was as smart as the FFA

they must feel pretty dumb for sending out blackhawks to rescue a kid from a balloon that even a message borad could see could not have a person in it

ditto the FAA

man

only thing dumber than the media is the government

 

[Death Bytes]

This thing made 8 pages in 2 hours. The story on pg 1 sounds horrendous :( ... what's the Cliffs version of pp 2-8?

Any develpments, any good non-video links?

Apparently it was nothing more than a JiffyPop promotion.

C'mon, DB ... my brother in initials. Shoot me straight.

We'll have to wait until the news media is done with this before we get the straight facts. And I'm not kidding in the least!!!

 

[Tigran Petrosian]

This hot-air balloon expert is great. They might have wanted to think about having him on before, for instance, reporting there was a kid in the balloon.

Yeah, this guy is the voice of reason.. way too late.It was funny how Wolf started him off by mentioning it was a hot air balloon."First off, it's a gas balloon. Hot air plays no role it its lift."

 

[Arsenal of Doom]

So if I'm following the jumbled facts correctly, wasn't it one of the siblings who reportedly said that the missing kid climbed into the balloon and floated away?

If that's the case, you'd have to think that the sibling knows where the missing one is and it's either a planned hoax or something else happened to the kid and the other ones were trying to cover it up somehow.

 

[CJsuperstud]

well at least we know everything is ok because this thread is becoming the same garbage as everything else in the FFA

Yah, well, its threads like this that make me call FBG a cesspool. I was raised as a christian and I was brought up to help the less fortunate. But you get PatsWillWin losing his life to a fake organ-harvesting cop. Or you get Flying V discovering a fictitious crimescene. Or you get an Otis asking when its ok to become a thug and attack someone for bipolar disorder.I really do not want to ever be considered an FBG. This place sucks and should be shut down. But mostly this sort of crap starts at the very top. I blame Chase Stuart.

you're a strange cat... GTFO

 

[Tigran Petrosian]

"He's very interested in science and meterology."

He's a nutjob. Say it.

 

[Doug B]

We'll have to wait until the news media is done with this before we get the straight facts.

And I'm not kidding in the least!!!

Probably right. Here's confirmation that the boy was not in the balloon when it touched down.I'm sure that's a honda-ish link, but I'm just coming into this story.

 

[SlaX]

kind of like a "kid fell down a well" story in the other direction.

"Bart Simpson fell down a well" kind of story

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Suddenly, CNN is all skeptical of this. :(Way to ferret out the facts here. Jesus, these people are hopeless.

Score one for Fox News.

Fox was doing the something.Love how some wants to use this incident as some kind of indictment for bad news coverage.

 

[Weapon of Mass Instruction]

I just didn't want to be left out of this thread.

 

[Arsenal of Doom]

kind of like a "kid fell down a well" story in the other direction.

"Bart Simpson fell down a well" kind of story

Timmy O'TooleWhere's Sting when you need him.

 

[Fat Nick]

One cubic foot of helium will lift about 28.2 grams1 pound = 453.59237 gramsAverage 9 y/o boy 61.6 lbs.Average 9 y/o boy in grams = ~27,947 gramsWhich woudl require ~991 cubic feet of helium.Balloon was proported to be 20' in diameter which is a surface of ~1256 square feet in area...so it wouldn't have to be THAT tall, which it didn't appear to be.Obviously not factoring in the weight of the balloon, but I think now that it IS feasable that this could lift a kid...although not quickly.

per CNN 5 ft high5 x 1256 = 6280

Which would mean it could lift ~390 lbs.I'd estimate it would have no problem lifting the boy + it's own weight.That said I don't think the boy was ever inside...but still.

 

[B-Deep]

I just didn't want to be left out of this thread.

wanna build a balloon?

 

[Buckychudd]

This hot-air balloon expert is great. They might have wanted to think about having him on before, for instance, reporting there was a kid in the balloon.

Yeah, this guy is the voice of reason.. way too late.It was funny how Wolf started him off by mentioning it was a hot air balloon."First off, it's a gas balloon. Hot air plays no role it its lift."

God I wish I could see this.

 

[Doug B]

One cubic foot of helium will lift about 28.2 grams1 pound = 453.59237 gramsAverage 9 y/o boy 61.6 lbs.Average 9 y/o boy in grams = ~27,947 gramsWhich woudl require ~991 cubic feet of helium.Balloon was proported to be 20' in diameter which is a surface of ~1256 square feet in area...so it wouldn't have to be THAT tall, which it didn't appear to be.Obviously not factoring in the weight of the balloon, but I think now that it IS feasable that this could lift a kid...although not quickly.

per CNN 5 ft high5 x 1256 = 6280

Which would mean it could lift ~390 lbs.I'd estimate it would have no problem lifting the boy + it's own weight.That said I don't think the boy was ever inside...but still.

Getting a lot of conflicting equations about this. One guy on the other board said that 4,000 cubic ft are needed to raise 50 lbs. Fifty pounds, that is ... no typo.