Balloon Boy

Too soon? http://bit.ly/19zTFj

yeah, but you were aiming to offend so on that basis i'd say the timing was perfect.

always wondered what would happen if you attached yourself to 1000 helium balloons and flew up. how high would you go? forever, into space????

also .. when you own a piece of land, do you own it all the way to the centre of the earth?

Too soon? http://bit.ly/19zTFj

news to me, by the way.

I'm in denver this week, saw it blow over, went inside and twitter had gone mental.

Tenner says this is your "canoe man"

Something not right there.

What's this all about?

saw this at BFI, thought it was pretty cool

http://www.simonfaithfull.org/proj_escape6.html

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/21306839/detail.html

always wondered what would happen if you attached yourself to 1000 helium balloons and flew up. how high would you go? forever, into space????

always wondered what would happen if you attached yourself to 1000 helium balloons and flew up. how high would you go? forever, into space???

you can go pretty fucking high:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excelsior

u go to balloonia (fucking amazing kids book)

I don't understand. But Mongolfier FTW

'balloon boy' found alive at home

Tenner says this is your "canoe man"

Something not right there.

Did anyone take your bet?

there is an excellent darwin award for some joker and some helium weather balloons
i think he reached over 35,000 ft and starting dying of both cold and axphyxia
planes flying past were radioing in his location

http://www.darwinawards.com/stupid/stupid1998-11.html

He was the dude who survived though wasn't he? He used them to propose to his bird, failed, survived, lectured about it, then shot himself.

Did anyone take your bet?

No.

Dammit.

oooh a mysterious man from the future!!! the plot thickens...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/16/balloon-boy-family-denies-hoax

Turns out it was a PR stunt done by a faction of the company i work for.
Oooh, they're so clever!

And if you didn't know that "Up" is on general release.... you do now.

I bet that makes you feel proud to be part of such a great firm, James? ;p