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To: GVnana

I don’t know the exact size of the balloon, but it would have required something like 50 pounds of helium to just be able to get off the ground with the kid inside, anyone who is interested in science would know this.


5 posted on 10/17/2009 4:01:36 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: LukeL
"but it would have required something like 50 pounds of helium to just be able to get off the ground with the kid inside, anyone who is interested in science would know this."

Hey, come on, man. Don't you know when a little kid is involved, all intellectual thought is thrown to the wind? /Sarc.

9 posted on 10/17/2009 4:04:44 PM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: LukeL

I heard a report that it was about 20ft in diameter


17 posted on 10/17/2009 4:19:05 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: LukeL

It had plenty of helium to lift the boy off at a density altitude of 5,500 ft, contrary to my initial take on that matter. Volume/lift calculations confirm repeatedly.


28 posted on 10/17/2009 4:42:07 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: LukeL

Remember Shostakovich’s assault in Patriot Games?


33 posted on 10/17/2009 4:57:04 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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