Six year old lad possibly in a balloon on his own
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8309818....
Poor lad, if hes in there. On the other hand, if he lives it'll be one hell of a story for him and his parents...
Poor lad, if hes in there. On the other hand, if he lives it'll be one hell of a story for him and his parents...
'The Heene family from Colorado live life on the edge. Wife Mayumi (43) and storm scientist Richard (45) take their three kids, Bradford (8), Ryo (7) and Falcon (5), out of school to go on storm chasing missions to prove Richard's theories about magnetic fields and gravity. If conditions are right, Mayumi wakes her family by shouting "Storm Approaching, Storm Approaching!" into a bullhorn. The family sleep in their clothes so they can leap out of bed and into the storm-mobile. Richard calls Mayumi his 'ninja wife'; she maintains equipment, drives the storm-mobile, films tornadoes and waits with the kids while Richard jumps on his motorbike, heads into the eye of the storm and launches rockets to measure magnetic forces. At home the family are as chaotic as a twister: the kids have no table manners and throw themselves around the house, and while Richard devotes every moment to his research, he expects Mayumi to cook, clean and run the house without any help.
Edited by agric on Thursday 15th October 21:14
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8309818....
Balloon landed...boy not inside.
mmm...
..hope the wee fella has not tumbled out.
Balloon landed...boy not inside.
mmm...
..hope the wee fella has not tumbled out.
srebbe64 said:
"Oh look a truck blew over, that's pretty cool" So its cool somebodies home just got destroyed?
It is quite obvious that it is bulls
t mongering by the parents.
If the father is a storm scientist, he will be aware of densities of gases and the difference in the worst hurricane and a moderate high, pressure wise.
Forgetting that, if he had built a helium balloon, he would have been aware of it's ability to not lift 30kg or however much.
Kick his face off, attention seeking muppet.
t mongering by the parents.If the father is a storm scientist, he will be aware of densities of gases and the difference in the worst hurricane and a moderate high, pressure wise.
Forgetting that, if he had built a helium balloon, he would have been aware of it's ability to not lift 30kg or however much.
Kick his face off, attention seeking muppet.
how many years have people been chasing storms in various vehicles
movies about and a tv series
has anything useful actually come from all of this or is just a bunch of university mature students trying to avoid getting a real job? (think ghostbusters)
mind you, while driving through kansas in a worsening storm, i was most pleased to see the storm trucks shoot past me in the other direction
movies about and a tv series
has anything useful actually come from all of this or is just a bunch of university mature students trying to avoid getting a real job? (think ghostbusters)
mind you, while driving through kansas in a worsening storm, i was most pleased to see the storm trucks shoot past me in the other direction
Yahoo said:
Although Richard said he has no specialized training, they had a computer tracking system in their car and a special motorcycle.
Richard, pictured yesterday.
Yahoo said:
While the balloon was airborne, Colorado Army National Guard sent a UH-58 Kiowa helicopter and was preparing to send a Black Hawk UH-60 to try to rescue the boy, possibly by lowering someone to the balloon. They also were working with pilots of ultralight aircraft on the possibility of putting weights on the homemade craft to weigh it down.
Right, so a helicopter will hover over the balloon, and drop a rope down with a bend in it that will miss the skin and reach into the basket of the incredibly stable, non-downwashed balloon.Or a microlight will throw bricks at is as it flies by.
It's a good job the kid wasn't in there...
After a quick fagpacket calculation, I estimate the balloon to be about 2/5-1/2 the size to lift the average 6 year old.
6 year old = 30kg
1L of helium= 0.44g/l lighter than air.
2m radius sphere balloon.....approx 33500L.
Weight required to counteract kids mass. Approx 68000L.
Of course, the balloon is smaller than that. But even if the kid was 15kg, it's a bit touch and go.
A quick consider of a helium balloon and the weight of a kid will equate to most brain undead people realising it was waaaay too small.
To think that a helicopter/jets or whatever were scrambled (I can't believe this) shows the order of idiocy present......
Unless I've just had a few beers and should really shut up and go to bed.
6 year old = 30kg
1L of helium= 0.44g/l lighter than air.
2m radius sphere balloon.....approx 33500L.
Weight required to counteract kids mass. Approx 68000L.
Of course, the balloon is smaller than that. But even if the kid was 15kg, it's a bit touch and go.
A quick consider of a helium balloon and the weight of a kid will equate to most brain undead people realising it was waaaay too small.
To think that a helicopter/jets or whatever were scrambled (I can't believe this) shows the order of idiocy present......
Unless I've just had a few beers and should really shut up and go to bed.
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