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Someone horked my name at engadget
10/16/09

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Hey balloon boy I'm happy for you and Ima let you finish but Anne frank had the best attic attic hideout ever #henne
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Tawnie is saving no daylight
10/17/09

@3Djesus: This is not cool and actually very offensive. Please do yourself a favor and do some reading on Anne Frank and the Holocaust if you do not understand why this is offensive. #henne
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Someone horked my name at engadget
10/17/09

@3Djesus: I'm not apologetic to y'all.... I stole it from my JEWISH uncle on facebook. And he apparently stole it from twitter.
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Heliophage
10/16/09

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Wasn't there enough proof when CNN asked the boy why he didn't come out of hiding when he heard his name being called, to which he replied "you guys said... we did this for the show," and all the parents could muster was "...no?" and "man... and... you didn't come out?"
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Bokusatsu_Tenshi
10/16/09

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Yummy! Blackmail and possible jail time? NOW this is getting interesting. #henne
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Bos'un's Mate
10/16/09

@Bokusatsu_Tenshi: He's shopping the information to third parties, not Heene. I'm don't think it's blackmail. That said ...

Enquiring Minds Want to Know! #henne
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Adam Moss
10/16/09

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this is the amount of helium you would need #henne
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
10/16/09

@Adam Moss: You DO realize that the weigh of the envelope(aka the balloons) counts in the lift formula. One large weather balloon weighs less than the same amount of volume in tinier balloons. This thing, being mylar, was even lighter. There's a reason blimps have bladders inside them, and not thousands of tinier balloons. #henne
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
10/16/09

@Adam Moss: Also, there were people who didn't believe that a 18 month old baby could fit in a pipe as wide as a hand from fingertip to the base of the palm. That is until they stuck their head over the pipe and heard baby Jessica McClure crying. #henne
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Adam Moss
10/16/09

@GitEmSteveDave_#GitEmSteveDaveRocks: even if you factor in the weight of that mylar, theres not enough lift there.

"At sea level, air weighs about 0.078 pounds per cubic foot, so the upward buoyant force on a cubic foot of helium is about 0.078 pounds."

Now at sea level air weighs more than at Denver's elevation, so at 5,000 ft above sea level that balloon could carry less weight.

Even if it were double that size (600 cubic feet),At sea level that 600 cubic foot balloon could lift 600 (X)times .078 pounds, or 46.8 pounds (including the mylar skin)

My conclusion is that the balloon in question (in a balloon that was more like 300 cubic feet) would not get off the ground with a 50lb child on board. #henne
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OCEntertainment
10/16/09

@Adam Moss: Thanks! #henne
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
10/16/09

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I might have given him a show if he stuck Ty Pennington in the balloon, and released it off. That would have solved two problems. #1, getting rid of Ty, and #2, stop having to hear about him. But once again #DoucheDad fails. #henne
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Software_Goddess
10/16/09

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My 'give-a-dam' just broke. Sorry if my flood on not caring causes you any inconvenience. This family does NOT need any more press! Clearly it is what they were hoping for. #henne
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Kaiser-Machead
10/16/09

@Software_Goddess: Yeah, may I be the first to say "Fuck these media whores." #henne
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anexanhume
10/16/09

@Software_Goddess: Don't worry, any sensible gizmodian has apathy insurance. #henne
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
10/16/09

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You want $500 for the bubble boy?
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
10/16/09

@Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: #henne
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CyberRanger
10/16/09

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Do the math. There is no way a balloon that size could get off the ground with a kid that size. Not happenin'. #henne
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lostarchitect
10/16/09

@CyberRanger: people keep saying this, but at the time, CNN was reporting that the sherrif's office had checked it out with the professors at the state university, and they had determined that the payload of a balloon that size would be up to 80 pounds, which is more than the kid weighs. So, the math was apparently done. Now, maybe those professors were wrong, but it seemed reasonable at the time to believe them. #henne
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
10/16/09

@CyberRanger: Wow! You are the FIRST person to say that. Quick, call the rescue people and tell them that. Any chance you know where he actually is? You know, to speed the search up.

Also, you are wrong. If a gust of wind grabbed that balloon, it would have lifted BalloonBoi off the ground. Hell, a kite managed to pull my ~170lb body out of the water ten feet and 15 forward face first into a wave. #henne
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Hiphopopotamus
10/16/09

@GitEmSteveDave_#GitEmSteveDaveRocks: More to the point, if you tell the police there is a child stuck in a runaway aircraft and his life is in danger, they are going to respond in fashion. If you were the sheriff responding to a report of a 6-year-old facing death, are you going to ask his father to submit proof-of-concept first? #henne
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jetRink
10/16/09

@CyberRanger: Here's the rough calculation. [www.wolframalpha.com] #henne
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
10/16/09

@Hiphopopotamus: Exactly. You don't want to be the guy who decided to be skeptical and a kid gets hurt. #henne
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Hiphopopotamus
10/16/09

@jetRink: The output is in metric... now we'll never know the answer. #henne
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EBone
10/16/09

@GitEmSteveDave_#GitEmSteveDaveRocks: The sad thing is, most law enforcement WILL be skeptical in the future as result of this stunt. #henne
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CyberRanger
10/16/09

@jetRink: Yep, saw that number in my calculations. I live at altitude (7230'/2203m) 35 mi NNW of Fort Collins. I adjusted for altitude & noted the balloon was filled just enough helium to balance outside air pressure & no more. I figured it would have had to been twice as big to lift a boy that size at this altitude.

It was also quoted that the balloon lifted off at 200'-300'/min. That was what sent me to my HP 50G to start figuring. I was around weather balloons in the Army relating to airborne operations & realized the balloon size in relation to the payload had to be much larger than it was. #henne
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CyberRanger
10/16/09

@Hiphopopotamus: I'm also a dad. If I thought my kid floated away in a homemade balloon, I'm not gonna say "Can't happen, my calculations say..." I'm gonna try to find my kid first & worry about calculations later.

What I'm saying is, there should have been as much emphasis on the ground search as the air search. They might have found him sooner & avoided a lot of balloon track ground search.

No one was really looking on the ground at the launch point much after the first little while. Like I heard so many times yesterday, little boys do things like that & then hide to avoid the punishment. I was a curious little boy once. #henne
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Hiphopopotamus
10/16/09

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I'm pretty sure the police would like to get in touch with the seller, as it is an active investigation still. (Despite the fact that the only thing they can charge him with is the misdemeanor of making a false report - though if they do charge him with that, they can legally stick him with the bill of all the expenses incurred as a result.) #henne
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
10/16/09

@Hiphopopotamus: Now can they claim the other kid made the report, and since he is a minor, they'd be off the hook, or that the PD should have searched better? I only say this because I am guessing #DoucheDad 's browser history will include research on these laws, and the fine line you can tiptoe on. #henne
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Kaiser-Machead
10/16/09

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Bruce Willis may have predicted this, just like the boy in the barn. #henne
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P3nnst8r
10/16/09

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Looks like the Heene balloon just popped. #henne
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Noobs-R-Us
10/16/09

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This ass Heene should go to JAIL! #henne
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anexanhume
10/16/09

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How fitting the huge ass business insider advert in the article about information for sale is. #henne
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