Boy floating in storm chaser Balloon/UFO over Colorado

[KPTHEMP]

check this out its all over the news... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33330516/ns/us_news-life/

 

[BobDog]

Being a male and having watched many a male adventure of all ages over the years....it always amazes me that females don't out number males by a large percentage.....:angel:

 

[KPTHEMP]

uh oh ? the balloon was empty ? wheres the boy ?

 

[bigalpha]

Found him hiding in a box in the attic. haha.

I was watching streaming video of it when it touched down and everyone rushed to it to find nobody inside.

 

[thechief86]

ha! that kid's gonna get his a$$ kicked! if it were me as a kid, i'd just consider myself lucky that the teeth my dad knocked out would grow back at that age!

 

[Mr.Shrek]

I was joking with the wife at dinner before we found out that the boy was fine. I said "Watch, they are all going to go home and the kid is going to be crying that he went to the bathroom and when he came out everyone was gone" Sure enough they get home and whos there....the damn kid. Same screwed up family that was on that Wife Swap show twice.

 

[YJ-GENRAL]

apparently the kid was hiding in the attic because he got yelled at and in trouble earlier in the day... not sure if he let the balloon loose or it was coincidence.

 

[bigalpha]

I wish my dad was a stormchaser. I got stuck with a loser instead.

 

[Mr.Shrek]

At least your dad was there....

I retract my previous statement due to the following statement in post 10.

(I hear ya though alpha, it would have been so much cooler to say "Sorry my dad couldn't make it to the father son camp out cause he was chasing a tornado)

 

[bigalpha]

He wasn't.

 

[KPTHEMP]

theres alot more going on then we know about, the dad is acting weird and when the media cornered him, he started acting all funny over the boys comment "we did this for the show"

 

[xjtrailrider]

IMHO, I think it was a publicity stunt. That family just seems odd to me. The authorities should charge him(the dad) for the expenses occurred during the search. CNN got what they deserved for being the news mongers that they are, they were upset because the boy was found safe. No story in that so they played up the "hoax" line, which unfortunately I almost believe given the shadyness of the dad. Bazaar and weird.

 

[bigalpha]

I agree - the family should be paying for the expenses.

 

[KPTHEMP]

yeah i think they should pay something, media is saying costs could reach 2 million

 

[YJ-GENRAL]

thats because the media is overpaid and they used a helicopter to follow a balloon traveling at lightning fast speeds! just because they are mad they didnt get to show a story with a boy in a balloon...

 

[bigalpha]

Well, if it was a hoax, then the family should be on the hook for the costs for EMT, Police, etc.

 

[YJ-GENRAL]

if it was a hoax i doubt it was there idea... can you say "for the show" again?

 

[Mr.Shrek]

The funny thing is when I first saw the news break my thought was how in the heck did that lift a kid. Thinking of the Mythbusters episode where it took an ungodly number of balloons to pick a kid up.

 

[YJ-GENRAL]

lol apparently there arent any local scientists that had that thought when it was floating in the air... not even the dad.

 

[bigalpha]

So this craft was 20' in width and 5' tall.

Let's do a little fudging and make it a cylinder that's 20' wide and 2' tall because I'm no good at calculus. The volume of that would be 628 cubic feet.

1 cubic meter can lift roughly 1 kilogram.

628 cubic feet equals roughly 18 cubic meters.

18 kilograms equals roughly 40 pounds.

This would mean the craft was able to carry roughly 40 pounds.

In Mythbuster terms, it's 'plausible' that the amount of helium could lift a child.