There's no way that balloon could've lifted a 50 lb boy(badcheese.com)
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There's no way that balloon could've lifted a 50 lb boy
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I wouldn't suspend the search of a kid quoting howstuffworks and wikipedia, specially when stating that "about a gram" times "about a volume" is not greater than 23kg.
I was thinking this after I saw it on the ground, but it was probably difficult to estimate the size in the air.
The father should have known roughly how much it could lift, and I think I saw a statement that it could only life its battery pack. But he was probably willing to cast that evidence aside for the (erroneous) eyewitness testimony that it happened.
The father should have known roughly how much it could lift, and I think I saw a statement that it could only life its battery pack. But he was probably willing to cast that evidence aside for the (erroneous) eyewitness testimony that it happened.
Just another example of how 24 hr news media is willing to suspend belief, and common sense, for a sensational news story.
It wasn't sensationalized, the authorities and parents genuinely believed the kid flew away.
The article obviously references to some event, but I don't know which, can someone tell, please?
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But it lifted an entire day's worth of news.
Health care? Afghanistan? Oh look it's a balloon.
Also based on how it flew and the fact that, given the authorities knowing the size of the balloon, there was no shifting of the bottom section when it rotated. I'd imagine staying on that piece of plywood in the same spot would be just as difficult as staying on a balance board, so they pretty quickly should have determined the balloon was not a worthwhile search topic.
Things just didn't add up and now we obviously know why.