what better child stuck in well or child stuck on balloon?

DanGarion · 10-15-2009, 01:45 PM

You guys watching this coverage about a 6 year old on a balloon that is floating through in Colorado?

RainMaker · 10-15-2009, 01:48 PM

WTF??!?! This is not going to end well. That balloon was going really fast.

Ronnie Dobbs2 · 10-15-2009, 01:51 PM

Stream: http://www.9news.com/video/player_live.aspx

That is seriously fucked up. Hope they figure something out.

Galaxy · 10-15-2009, 01:57 PM

I thought it was a hot air ballon at first. A man-made saucer?

Galaxy · 10-15-2009, 01:58 PM

It's on the national cable news channels now.

SackAttack · 10-15-2009, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Galaxy

I thought it was a hot air ballon at first. A man-made saucer?

Giant and helium-filled.

DanGarion · 10-15-2009, 02:00 PM

Better title would have been.

"what better child stuck in well or child stuck in balloon?"

--there I edited the title!

MikeVic · 10-15-2009, 02:00 PM

Can't they shoot at it? Then catch the kid.

SackAttack · 10-15-2009, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

Can't they shoot at it? Then catch the kid.

Are you familiar with 9.8 m/s²?

That's a lotta six-year-old splat if you don't have something to slow him down before you catch him.

DanGarion · 10-15-2009, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by SackAttack

Are you familiar with 9.8 m/s²?

That's a lotta six-year-old splat if you don't have something to slow him down before you catch him.

Well it's not going to fall down immediately. The helium would slowly escape from a small hole...

MikeVic · 10-15-2009, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by SackAttack

Are you familiar with 9.8 m/s²?

That's a lotta six-year-old splat if you don't have something to slow him down before you catch him.

Then use a giant ladder to catch him before he falls too far. Or a giant net to contain him?

Galaxy · 10-15-2009, 02:05 PM

Are you even allowed to build something like this (in private)? Could the parents could be in trouble for building this thing?

DanGarion · 10-15-2009, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Galaxy

Are you even allowed to build something like this (in private)? Could the parents could be in trouble for building this thing?

Yeah it's perfectly legal most likely, just like a weather balloon, a very large weather balloon.

SackAttack · 10-15-2009, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by DanGarion

Well it's not going to fall down immediately. The helium would slowly escape from a small hole...

The problem is, what are you going to use to get close enough that you're going to be able to hit the balloon with something of low enough caliber to only cause a leak?

He's moving something like 60mph, if I just heard the guy on the video correctly, and the balloon is going to be subject to changes in the wind. That's going to make it a challenge for any sniper (although I bet you there ain't a sniper worth his salt wouldn't be up for the challenge). Nothing you could get off the ground from the Air Force base in Fort Collins is going to be able to maintain altitude at that relatively slow speed, so you can't even just line something up behind the balloon to shoot it.

And even if you could, you'd cause more than just one hole.

I just don't see a good way you can shoot that balloon without splat.

Alan T · 10-15-2009, 02:07 PM

The posted video link isn't working. Does anyone have a working one?

Ronnie Dobbs2 · 10-15-2009, 02:07 PM

Try here?

http://news.bnonews.com/xh2m

MikeVic · 10-15-2009, 02:09 PM

Where's Spiderman when you need him.

SackAttack · 10-15-2009, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

Then use a giant ladder to catch him before he falls too far. Or a giant net to contain him?

It's really not even about what you catch him with.

Y'ever hit the water off a diving board in a belly flop?

Now increase that height from 60 feet to 6,000 feet. If you're falling unrestrained, bad shit happens.

But even above and beyond that, you have to be able to accurately predict where he's going to land within a reasonable size if you want the net to work, AND you're going to have to be able to set it up in such a way that the momentum of his impact doesn't just dash him against the ground anyway.

Sun Tzu · 10-15-2009, 02:10 PM

DO NOT WANT

DanGarion · 10-15-2009, 02:11 PM

It's on the national news channels / CNN etc.

MikeVic · 10-15-2009, 02:12 PM

Hmm, he's screwed I guess.

Galaxy · 10-15-2009, 02:12 PM

Now they think the boy might have fallen out?

Big Fo · 10-15-2009, 02:12 PM

CNN are now saying the boy may have fallen out of the balloon.

SackAttack · 10-15-2009, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Galaxy

Now they think the boy might have fallen out?

Closed basket makes that unlikely unless he was actively TRYING to get out.

MikeVic · 10-15-2009, 02:13 PM

What if he's pulling a Bart Simpson? He's really at home watching this whole thing unfold.

Lathum · 10-15-2009, 02:14 PM

watching it on the site linked in the thread, crazy.

Can someone sum up for me how exactly this started?

SackAttack · 10-15-2009, 02:14 PM

Balloon is descending according to the chick getting interviewed on 9.

Lathum · 10-15-2009, 02:14 PM

dola-I hope he doesn't crash into a mountain.

Sun Tzu · 10-15-2009, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeVic

What if he's pulling a Bart Simpson? He's really at home watching this whole thing unfold.

Then I give that kid mad props yo.

SackAttack · 10-15-2009, 02:15 PM

"The one son watched the other son go inside the compartment and watched it...take off."

Whatcha wanna bet the other son pulled the ropes loose?

DanGarion · 10-15-2009, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

dola-I hope he doesn't crash into a mountain.

It would take awhile for that to happen since he's going east / south direction...

Sun Tzu · 10-15-2009, 02:16 PM

From CNN -

Officials are trying to rescue a 6-year-old boy who climbed into a balloon-like experimental aircraft built by his parents and floated into the sky over eastern Colorado.

The aluminum-covered, dome-shaped balloon is 20 feet long and 5 feet high, Larimer County Sheriff's Office says.

Margie Martinez of the Weld County Sheriff's Office said a sibling saw the boy climb into the basket before the balloon took off. Since the door on the balloon was unlocked, Martinez said it's possible the boy had fallen out.

The balloon appeared to be a saucer-shaped, Mylar-coated helium balloon, not unlike a party balloon. The craft was drifting eastward, authorities said.

The helium balloon was tethered to the boy's family home in Fort Collins, the Larimer County Sheriff's Department said. The boy got into the craft Thursday morning and undid the rope anchoring it.

The aluminum-covered, dome-shaped balloon is 20 feet long and 5 feet high, the Larimer County Sheriff's Office said. Watch the balloon float thousands of feet over Colorado »

"The structure at the bottom of the balloon that the boy is in is made of extremely thin plywood and won't withstand any kind of a crash at all," said Erik Nilsson, Larimer County Emergency Manager, according to CNN affiliate KMGH.

The Federal Aviation Administration is trying to track the aircraft on radar and has notified the Denver International Airport. Shortly after noon (2 p.m. ET), the balloon was sighted two miles south of Evans.

CNN meteorologist Chad Myers estimated the wind would keep the vessel moving at 30 mph. Authorities say the craft is about 7,000 feet above the ground.

Ronnie Dobbs2 · 10-15-2009, 02:16 PM

Certainly looks like its deflating.

RainMaker · 10-15-2009, 02:17 PM

It's losing helium fast, looks like it has a hole in it. This is not going to end well.

SackAttack · 10-15-2009, 02:18 PM

Seriously, my money is on the older brother untying the ropes after the 6 y/o climbed in, went "oh shit" when it flew away like that, and went in and told his parents - little bro is flying away in the balloon - and then blamed it all on the kid to keep himself out of trouble.

MikeVic · 10-15-2009, 02:18 PM

I knew a sniper would hit it.

DaddyTorgo · 10-15-2009, 02:18 PM

DanGarion · 10-15-2009, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Ronnie Dobbs2

Certainly looks like its deflating.

It looked like this 20 minutes ago to, so don't take the current shape as deflation. It might be traveling faster which would make the look deflated on the lead edge, since it didn't appear full.

SackAttack · 10-15-2009, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by DanGarion

It looked like this 20 minutes ago to, so don't take the current shape as deflation. It might be traveling faster which would make the look deflated on the lead edge, since it didn't appear full.

Well, the police are also on record as saying that the balloon is descending, which is in line with it losing helium.

Lathum · 10-15-2009, 02:20 PM

at least the parents know it works!

DanGarion · 10-15-2009, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by SackAttack

Well, the police are also on record as saying that the balloon is descending, which is in line with it losing helium.

I'm watching it on Headline and the reporters are just babbling what their assumptions are with no actual knowledge IMO.

Lathum · 10-15-2009, 02:25 PM

lol, just reported the balloon is in an airport airspace and traffic has to be rerouted.

Honolulu_Blue · 10-15-2009, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by DanGarion

I'm watching it on Headline and the reporters are just babbling what their assumptions are with no actual knowledge IMO.

Yep. That pretty much sounds like the coverage you get from Fox, CNN and the rest of the 24 hour news stations on pretty much anything and everything.

MikeVic · 10-15-2009, 02:28 PM

I bet this has to do with the movie "Up."

wade moore · 10-15-2009, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

at least the parents know it works!

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Originally Posted by Lathum

lol, just reported the balloon is in an airport airspace and traffic has to be rerouted.

Yup. A 6 year-old dead/about to die is a laugh riot.

Galaxy · 10-15-2009, 02:28 PM

I like how CNN has a captain involved giving us the play-by-play. Shouldn't they let him go and do his job to get this thing under control?

Lathum · 10-15-2009, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by wade moore

Yup. A 6 year-old dead/about to die is a laugh riot.

fuck you Wade.

Way to act like I am the only one cracking jokes. Check out the thread title for fucks sake.

Douchebag.

Ronnie Dobbs2 · 10-15-2009, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

fuck you Wade.

Way to act like I am the only one cracking jokes. Check out the thread title for fucks sake.

Douchebag.

If its any consolation I think everyone cracking jokes about this is pretty sick.

MikeVic · 10-15-2009, 02:30 PM

lol, I think the situation is comical. Not the fact that a 6-year-old could die, but it just seems surreal. No one I mention it to believes me, unless I send a link too.

Lathum · 10-15-2009, 02:32 PM

I don't think anyone actually wants the kid to be hurt. I can't speak for others but of course I hope the kid is ok.

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RainMaker General Manager Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chicago, IL	WTF??!?! This is not going to end well. That balloon was going really fast.

10-15-2009, 01:57 PM	#4
Galaxy Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2005	I thought it was a hot air ballon at first. A man-made saucer?

10-15-2009, 01:58 PM	#5
Galaxy Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2005	It's on the national cable news channels now.

10-15-2009, 02:00 PM	#8
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	Can't they shoot at it? Then catch the kid.

10-15-2009, 02:05 PM	#12
Galaxy Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2005	Are you even allowed to build something like this (in private)? Could the parents could be in trouble for building this thing?

10-15-2009, 02:09 PM	#17
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	Where's Spiderman when you need him.

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10-15-2009, 02:12 PM	#21
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	Hmm, he's screwed I guess.

10-15-2009, 02:12 PM	#23
Big Fo Pro Rookie Join Date: Jan 2005	CNN are now saying the boy may have fallen out of the balloon.

10-15-2009, 02:13 PM	#25
MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	What if he's pulling a Bart Simpson? He's really at home watching this whole thing unfold.

10-15-2009, 02:14 PM	#26
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	watching it on the site linked in the thread, crazy. Can someone sum up for me how exactly this started?

10-15-2009, 02:14 PM	#27
SackAttack Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Green Bay, WI	Balloon is descending according to the chick getting interviewed on 9.

10-15-2009, 02:15 PM	#30
SackAttack Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Green Bay, WI	"The one son watched the other son go inside the compartment and watched it...take off." Whatcha wanna bet the other son pulled the ropes loose?

10-15-2009, 02:16 PM	#32
Sun Tzu Pro Starter Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: In the thick of it.	From CNN - Officials are trying to rescue a 6-year-old boy who climbed into a balloon-like experimental aircraft built by his parents and floated into the sky over eastern Colorado. The aluminum-covered, dome-shaped balloon is 20 feet long and 5 feet high, Larimer County Sheriff's Office says. Margie Martinez of the Weld County Sheriff's Office said a sibling saw the boy climb into the basket before the balloon took off. Since the door on the balloon was unlocked, Martinez said it's possible the boy had fallen out. The balloon appeared to be a saucer-shaped, Mylar-coated helium balloon, not unlike a party balloon. The craft was drifting eastward, authorities said. The helium balloon was tethered to the boy's family home in Fort Collins, the Larimer County Sheriff's Department said. The boy got into the craft Thursday morning and undid the rope anchoring it. The aluminum-covered, dome-shaped balloon is 20 feet long and 5 feet high, the Larimer County Sheriff's Office said. Watch the balloon float thousands of feet over Colorado » "The structure at the bottom of the balloon that the boy is in is made of extremely thin plywood and won't withstand any kind of a crash at all," said Erik Nilsson, Larimer County Emergency Manager, according to CNN affiliate KMGH. The Federal Aviation Administration is trying to track the aircraft on radar and has notified the Denver International Airport. Shortly after noon (2 p.m. ET), the balloon was sighted two miles south of Evans. CNN meteorologist Chad Myers estimated the wind would keep the vessel moving at 30 mph. Authorities say the craft is about 7,000 feet above the ground. __________________ I'm still here. Don't touch my fucking bacon. Last edited by Sun Tzu : 10-15-2009 at 02:18 PM.

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Ronnie Dobbs2 Pro Rookie Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Bahston Mass	Certainly looks like its deflating. __________________ There's no I in Teamocil, at least not where you'd think

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RainMaker General Manager Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chicago, IL	It's losing helium fast, looks like it has a hole in it. This is not going to end well.

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SackAttack Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Green Bay, WI	Seriously, my money is on the older brother untying the ropes after the 6 y/o climbed in, went "oh shit" when it flew away like that, and went in and told his parents - little bro is flying away in the balloon - and then blamed it all on the kid to keep himself out of trouble.

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Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	lol, just reported the balloon is in an airport airspace and traffic has to be rerouted.

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MikeVic Head Coach Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Hometown of Canada	I bet this has to do with the movie "Up."

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Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	I don't think anyone actually wants the kid to be hurt. I can't speak for others but of course I hope the kid is ok.

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