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An anonymous reader writes "The Guardian reports on an attempt at the record for the highest balloon flight. 'A bag of helium the size of the Empire State building to challenge Nasa record.'" We had an article about them a few months ago.
how long you could speak in a high-pitched voice from that one! And they waste it to fly around, pfff..
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their lives will depend on exquisitely accurate weather forecasts
They're doomed.
sh'aped as King Kong.
Please.
...to pack a pellet gun and a brown-bag lunch. After the balloon comes down (after crossing LAX's approach path, of course), the lawn chair used for the flight will be up for auction on eBay.
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Their claims are full of hot air.
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"The two adventurers need cloudless skies, high pressure, gentle winds and a 72-hour forecast in which they can be confident." ..and they're flying from SW England?!!!
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I wonder if that is high enough to justify the "solar system" logo on the story... I know 25 miles is high, but this isn't exactly space-faring craft.
Oohh, I have an idea: a Hindenberg logo, applicable for ballooning stories and stories that will surely have a disasterous outcome. In the case of this story, we may have a double-qualifier!
they climb into their Russian spacesuits, strap themselves into their cockpit chairs, slowly inflate the biggest balloon ever made, and float towards the heavens
New Mexico (CNN):
Late this evening, a tumbleweed farmer reported what appeared to be a crashed alien spacecraft, complete with a cockpit populated by a pair of extraterrestrial pilots squawking at each other [about using a cell phone around massive amounts of helium] before the farmer shot them with his shotgun. The silverish spacecraft and pilot bodies were quickly carted off by Area 51 personnel.
The contenders for the 2003 darwin awards are...
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A bag of helium the size of the Empire State building
Teddy Kennedy is working for NASA now?
If your bitterest enemies are people who hack the heads off civilians, then I would say you're doing something right.
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