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Search is on for missing 'floating island'
The Daily Telegraph ^ | August 3, 2011 | Peter Hutchison

Posted on 08/03/2011 11:16:22 AM PDT by EveningStar

A search is under way for a giant inflatable 'floating island' that went missing from a music festival.

'Is Land' was a £9,000 helium-filled sculpture of a desert island which floated above the heads of revellers at the Secret Garden Party festival recently.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: floatingisland
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1 posted on 08/03/2011 11:16:26 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro; dead; Roscoe Karns

ping


2 posted on 08/03/2011 11:17:27 AM PDT by EveningStar
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3 posted on 08/03/2011 11:18:27 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: EveningStar

Ben Linus must have moved it


4 posted on 08/03/2011 11:20:07 AM PDT by PlateOfShrimp
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To: EveningStar
Prediction - 1 of 2 things:
  1. This will be found deflated on the ground about 50 miles away. It will rise to the point where the pressure differential between inside and outside can no longer be contained and the envelope will burst.
  2. It will rise to a point of neutral buoyancy, and will eventually get shot down over North Korea.

5 posted on 08/03/2011 11:22:23 AM PDT by tpmintx (The problems we face today are there today because the people who work for a living are outnumbered.)
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To: EveningStar

Be careful.. If too many people are on one side of the island it could tip over! ;)


6 posted on 08/03/2011 11:23:33 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("Give me Liberty or I'll stand up and get it for myself!")
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To: EveningStar

Laputa. Aptly named.


7 posted on 08/03/2011 11:27:00 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot)
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8 posted on 08/03/2011 11:31:52 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: EveningStar
The good news is we found the Island. The bad News is the boat is wrecked!
9 posted on 08/03/2011 11:35:50 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: EveningStar

They need to look down wind.


10 posted on 08/03/2011 11:39:52 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: EveningStar

We may need to ask Hank Johnson - After an island tips over, does it float away?


11 posted on 08/03/2011 11:51:28 AM PDT by sjmjax (Politicans are like bananas - they start out green, turn yellow, then rot.)
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To: EveningStar

“OMG! I think I might have seen my six-year-old son climb onto the island before it floated away!! He’s definitely not hiding in the barn or anything!”


12 posted on 08/03/2011 11:57:32 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: EveningStar

ask the NOX. they might know.


13 posted on 08/03/2011 12:05:37 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (If the little things really bother you, maybe it's because the big things are going well.)
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To: bravo whiskey
ask the NOX. they might know.

Perhaps the Goa'uld blew it up.

14 posted on 08/03/2011 12:11:43 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: EveningStar

It’s probably deflated and sitting in some fraternity’s basement.


15 posted on 08/03/2011 12:19:36 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: EveningStar

Sh!t...that must be the same island that Hank Johnson (D-GA) was talking about in the committee hearing when he protested movement of troops, people, or something to Guam lest the extra weight tip it over.


16 posted on 08/03/2011 12:22:03 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: 21stCenturion; 75thOVI; Abathar; alarm rider; albee; Alice au Wonderland; Amityschild; ...
INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH
HUMOR

>> PING <<
No amateurs, please.
Send FReepmail if you want on/off ISHP list
The List of Ping Lists

They'll never obtain it.

It's guarded by Smurfs.

17 posted on 08/03/2011 1:24:37 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: COBOL2Java
Roger Deam bump!


18 posted on 08/03/2011 1:39:04 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you think it's time to bury your weapons.....it's time to dig them up.)
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who witnessed two unidentified youths in a dinghy cutting all five of its tether ropes, releasing the island into the sky

Sounds like utes being utes!

19 posted on 08/03/2011 1:47:09 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: martin_fierro; EveningStar
Rumored to be aboard:


20 posted on 08/03/2011 1:49:22 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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