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[blink138 (Pat)]

myth busted ????
pat

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Fair enough Clive ....I withdraw any criticisms on my part.

Flash ..!!

[simmo]

Who cares if its real or not? Doesn't just a little part of you want to be that guy? What a rush! Maybe seeing a jumbo headed straight towards you might be life changing but there's a part of me that is like yeh give it a go Only mistake the guy made was not taking a telescope with him

Keep it up Flash, At least you have a sense of humour.

Cheers
Simmo

[simmo]

If you read wiki article it says that the balloons were 8ft across.

"reporters"

Perhaps then double your mass available to be lifted and its a goer.

Maybe I should be a detective? Invoice in the mail Flash!

Simmo

[MrB (Simon)]

Originally Posted by blink138

myth busted ????
pat

Funny you should say that because MythBusters recreated it and it worked for them, with 'Buster' the crash-test dummy as a 'pilot' (payload? )
From memory(they did it years ago) it was Myth "Confirmed" or "Plausible" but not "Busted" as they also confirmed the story as true.

I will see if I can find which Season/Episode of MythBusters it was.

EDIT:
It was one of the pilot episodes, seems it was Adam Savage and not 'Buster' that went for a tethered flight Hey, it was 10 years ago so my memory wasn't too great
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC-Km7aUjgc

[PCH (Paul)]

Actually Simmo, double the diameter equals 8x the volume.

Cube 1cmx1cmx1cm = 1cm3

Cube 2cmx2cmx2cm = 8cm3

That could help with the lift power

Just my 2c

Originally Posted by simmo

If you read wiki article it says that the balloons were 8ft across.

"reporters"

Perhaps then double your mass available to be lifted and its a goer.

Maybe I should be a detective? Invoice in the mail Flash!

Simmo