Freeze. 
Posted on 10/20/2009 6:21:58 PM PDT by Steelfish
Balloon Boy's Father 'Wanted TV fame Before World Ends In 2012' Richard Heene, the man suspected of the alleged "balloon boy" hoax, was driven by a conviction that the world will come to a cataclysmic end in 2012, according to a friend.
Nick Allen in Los Angeles 20 Oct 2009
Robert Thomas, who claims to have been a confidante and researcher for Mr Heene, has been interviewed by police. Mr Thomas's lawyer, Linda Lee, claimed: "Heene believes the world is going to end in 2012. Because of that he wanted to make money quickly, become rich enough to build a bunker or something underground, where he can be safe from the sun exploding."
It was the latest disclosure about Mr Heene's bizarre world view, which also allegedly includes a belief in aliens and UFOs. The suggestion that the world will come to an end in 2012 is based on an interpretation of the ancient Mayan calendar. It is also the subject of a soon to be released Hollywood blockbuster called "2012".
However, scientists and Mayans themselves have debunked the theory. Police believe Mr Heene and his wife Mayumi planned a hoax in which an experimental helium balloon was "accidentally" released from their back garden in Fort Collins, Colorado.
They then claimed the youngest child, six-year-old Falcon, was on board. However, authorities suspect it was a publicity stunt to gain attention for a proposed reality television show about the Heene family.
Mr Thomas said he had nothing to do with the hoax and didn't know about the balloon being launched until he saw it on television. Police have been poring over e-mails, phone records and financial documents from the Heene home as they consider charges. Mr Heene emerged briefly from the house on Tuesday morning but said nothing.
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I am not defending these people but if what they did is illegal I wonder why Al Sharpton didn’t go to jail for the Tawana Brawley hoax and that dancer chick didn’t go to jail for the Duke LaCross hoax. I’m just sayin’.
How’s that work?
When it explodes the core drops below the heat/density required to sustain fusion. Radiation pressure is the only thing preventing gravitational collapse to a dwarf little person star.
So you get a brief flash of heat, then a tiny star emitting little heat - forever.
Air nothing!
What about the bizarre popularity of reality TV? What will motivate Heene if suddenly (in an epochal sense) such entertainment is no longer “hip”?
Technically speaking, I suspect after the explosion the Earth will have little water left to form ice.
Freeze.
assuming the Heene family survived the fiery explosion of the sun and had stockpiled enough food, over the thousands of years they might evolve into some kind of ice worm that reaches the surfaces and self-inflates becoming a balloon.
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