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That balloon went from Ft. Collins to Colorado Springs? That thing must have been *hauling ass*. - JaxSean Oct 15, 13:05 5
- there saying it was moving about 25mph, and was in the air 2.5ish hours -- nm - Truman Oct 15, 13:07 1
  - also experts are now saying that they dont think the ballon had enough lift to take off with the kid in it -- nm - Truman Oct 15, 13:10
- it gets windy up there. -- nm - znufrii Oct 15, 13:07
- We basically did this last semester (well, no human stowaway). Average speed is near 100mph. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 13:06
- It was in the air for something like 3 1/2 hours -- nm - Roger More Oct 15, 13:06
The shots CCN.com are showing are gorgeous. -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 13:05
so who bought the movie rights for this story? -- nm - marcel Oct 15, 13:03 4
- Coming Christmas 2010 - M. Night Shyamalan's BLOONS -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 13:04
- I'd expect to see it on CSI first. -- nm - Max Oct 15, 13:04 2
  - "The question isn't whether this is a crime," *takes off sunglasses* "but the weather itself." -- nm - con_carne Oct 15, 13:06 1
    - He puts his sunglasses on at the end! -- nm - MDH Oct 15, 13:08
I love that Boobs McCain is right on the front page of ABCNews.com. -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 13:02 9
- Speaking of boobs, did Mariah Carey get another boob job, gain weight or both? - Deevil Oct 15, 13:06 5
  - She married a man my age. She scares me. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 13:07 3
    - You're 19? -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 13:08 2
      - Nick Cannon is 30. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 13:10 1
        
        Twas a joke! -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 13:12
  - glorious weight gain -- nm - zork Oct 15, 13:06
- "Internet all a-Twitter?" Really? Somebody got paid to write that. -- nm - con_carne Oct 15, 13:03 2
  - David's soap opera writer moonlights as a headline writer at ABCNews.com -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 13:04 1
    - "Now all we have is a basket full of...hope." -- nm - David Oct 15, 13:05
It's looking less and less likely he was ever on it. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 12:58 17
- I'm thinking this ends as one of two things: (1) he comes strolling down the street a litle later from a friend's house, or (2) he's dead. - JaxSean Oct 15, 13:01 8
  - 2 occurred to me, too. -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 13:03
  - 1 would be great, 2 ugh to go from covering up to nat'l news wow -- nm - MDH Oct 15, 13:03
  - The family is just weird. I think anything is possible. -- nm - mara Oct 15, 13:03
  - *nods* -- nm - loosilu Oct 15, 13:03
  - 2 sounds ridiculous, and how do you get a 3 year old to assist in a cover up like that? -- nm - Guy Oct 15, 13:03 3
    - that actually was the plot on Lie To Me season 1 - you tell a young kid he saw it often enough, and they believe they did - crash davis Oct 15, 13:05 2
      - The opposite of "Tommy". -- nm - Deevil Oct 15, 13:07
      - "a" plot, not "the" plot -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 13:05
- "I had the FAA looking for you!" -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 13:01
- I don't have sound on my CNN vid, care to explain? -- nm - MDH Oct 15, 12:59 5
  - There's no basket. If he were in it, he'd suffocate from inhaling only helium. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 13:05
  - well, how much of the story have you heard? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 13:01 3
    - "First the earth cooled. Then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil, and then the Arabs came..." -- nm - JaxSean Oct 15, 13:03
    - Pretty much the whole thing, his brother saw him enter etc... -- nm - MDH Oct 15, 13:02 1
      - Well, right now everyone is hoping that he was kidnapped by FOX producers as a promotional gimmick for Wife Swap -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 13:04
- this is what I'm wondering. -- nm - loosilu Oct 15, 12:59
I still crash at the same time each afternoon without caffeine that I did with it. -- nm - Dano Oct 15, 12:54 7
- Have you tried chewing gum in order to stay awake? - con_carne Oct 15, 12:58
- a two hour 3 martini lunch is a good pick me up -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 15, 12:57
- it's to soon to mention crash -- nm - Beaker Oct 15, 12:57
- eat an apple. - Andie Oct 15, 12:56 1
  - The gas will keep you from falling asleep. -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 13:00
- We're genetically programmed for a mid-afternoon nap. The Spanish have it right! -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 12:56 1
  - So is our food supply. :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 12:56
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- Everything I do, I do it for you -- nm - The Internet Oct 15, 12:55 2
  - I DIDN'T ASK YOU TO KILL FOR ME!! -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 12:56 1
    - please ask me to kill for you -- nm - The Internet Oct 15, 12:58
Who has a 6YO and wants to build a helium balloon in the backyard? - OAE Oct 15, 12:52 15
- what kind of awful parent lets their kid have a dog or throw snowballs?!?!?! -- nm - Guy Oct 15, 13:00 1
  - Or has a pool or let's them ride a bike or has matches in the house or... etc -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Oct 15, 13:05
- I don't know the exact circumstances, but you can't keep kids from doing every strange random thing. -- nm - loosilu Oct 15, 12:56 1
  - Evidently, you can't keep parents from that, either :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 12:57
- Sorry not to be clear: That the 6YO was allowed access to... - OAE Oct 15, 12:55 1
  - Obviously you've never been a mischievous 6 year old. -- nm - kelly Oct 15, 13:11
- a really cool dad -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 15, 12:55
- A family that's been on a reality doing strange shit? You don't say. -- nm - con_carne Oct 15, 12:54
- retired meteorologist, using it to track weather and other conditions -- nm - Truman Oct 15, 12:54 1
  - Fake tRuMaN! -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 12:58
- storm chasers -- nm - marcel Oct 15, 12:53
- They're kind of a strange family. -- nm - mara Oct 15, 12:53
- SCIENCE!! -- nm - Thomas Dolby si Oct 15, 12:53 1
  - L2 -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 12:54
- inventors/scientists. -- nm - Remlik Oct 15, 12:53
the ballon family appeared on wife swap, per cnn -- nm - Truman Oct 15, 12:47 5
- hmm, publicity stunt? -- nm - GWAA Oct 15, 12:49 4
  - Too soon? -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 12:51 1
    - i'm worried about the kid! it wouldn't be the first time someone's gotten in over their heads -- nm - GWAA Oct 15, 12:52
  - Or cover-up for accidentally killing him! ""The Heene family, with its three rowdy boys, is anchored by father Richard, whose anger arrives in sudden - mara Oct 15, 12:51 1
    - It would be quite the stall. That's quite some ground to track to see if they can find a body. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 15, 12:52
those poor parents. this story sucks. -- nm - Andie Oct 15, 12:44 2
- It's still possible that it won't have a sucky ending -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 12:45 1
  - I hope so. Morons. -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 12:46
Maybe he fell out when America wasn't look? -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 12:43 3
- I'm sure all the footage is being reviewed somewhere to see if he fell out. -- nm - Remlik Oct 15, 12:47 1
  - Plus, I doubt cameras were on the balloon from the very start. -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 12:47
- It does take a village. -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 12:44
Didn't the 'cockpit' seem intact through the aerial footage? - Will Hunting Oct 15, 12:43 10
- it isnt built to carry someone, its more of a meteorlogical ballon, per cnn -- nm - Truman Oct 15, 12:49
- Is there even a place to be "in" it? It looks like it's all envelope, no basket. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 12:44
- yeah... plus the dad would have said something if their was something missing - GWAA Oct 15, 12:44 6
  - But even if he jumped out...there'd be something he jumped from/through visible....you'd think. - Will Hunting Oct 15, 12:45 5
    - he could have opened the door and it closed again? I'm not sure how the door works -- nm - GWAA Oct 15, 12:46
    - bermuda triangle? -- nm - Guy Oct 15, 12:45 3
      - they're in colorado, not Bermuda... -- nm - znufrii Oct 15, 12:48 1
        
        colorado rhombusoid! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 12:48
      - Aliens. -- nm - Mop (233 lbs) Oct 15, 12:47
- yes -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 12:43
At this point i'm hoping that kid ran off or is hiding because he was scared for letting that Balloon go and what dad may do -- nm - GWAA Oct 15, 12:41 1
- just read an article that said his younger brother saw him go in. that's sad. :( -- nm - Guy Oct 15, 12:43
A caveman should do the Caveman power rankings. -- nm - Shaun Oct 15, 12:41
that kid ain't in that -- nm - big time shamu Oct 15, 12:39
So is he in there? Or hiding in his bedroom closet? -- nm - MojaveMeg Oct 15, 12:39 7
- holy shit...this is like the trick ending to some terrible movie -- nm - GWAA Oct 15, 12:40 1
  - *splurt* -- nm - M. Night Shyamalan Oct 15, 12:40
- id wondered when the reports started how they knew he'd crawled in? - Guy Oct 15, 12:40 4
  - he may have been, at the start -- nm - big time shamu Oct 15, 12:40
  - The family claims they did a thorough search. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 12:40 2
    - And police searched as well. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 12:42
    - and the only one who saw the kid get in was the kid's brother. - Beryllium Oct 15, 12:41
He's not in there. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 12:39 2
- nope ... the way they lifted the basket, there's no way there was a six year old in there ... -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 12:39
- oh man -- nm - Remlik Oct 15, 12:39
Are you kidding me,..it gently touches down....wow. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 15, 12:36
it's down -- nm - big time shamu Oct 15, 12:36
The balloon is down. It *was* shown live. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 12:35 8
- that's smaller than it appeared in the air -- nm - big time shamu Oct 15, 12:37
- I'm a little worried that he hasn't come out yet -- nm - GWAA Oct 15, 12:37 4
  - The ease of that officer just lifting the balloon worries me -- nm - MDH Oct 15, 12:39
  - indeed. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 12:37
  - No sign of the boy yet. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 12:37
  - Hopefully he couldn't open the hatch, for a fe wof these posts. -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 12:37
- yes, but of course, the balloon is covering the scene -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 12:36
- Fresh-plowed field. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 12:36
wow -- nm - Remlik Oct 15, 12:35 1
- it just landed -- nm - Remlik Oct 15, 12:35
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CNN: Law enforcement is speculating that he may have fallen out. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 12:35
I really hope he didn't fall out already -- nm - MDH Oct 15, 12:35
have we asked who knows how to play bridge? -- nm - zork Oct 15, 12:34 5
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- I can play but not well enough to play with serious bridge players because I don't always bid properly. -- nm - Dano Oct 15, 12:36 1
  - if yahoo still has those game rooms maybe we can get a group together - zork Oct 15, 12:39
- i'd like to learn. -- nm - zork Oct 15, 12:34 1
  - ditto -- nm - znufrii Oct 15, 12:46
LIR:Astronauts League Power Rankings - crash davis Oct 15, 12:33 9
- Like the Ravens, I also need to trade for WR help. - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 15, 13:00
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  - Then I should be above you, too. - the wrong element, bad guy Oct 15, 12:58
  - what # would you assign Spawn if you did the rankings? -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 12:46 3
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      - 5-0 -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 12:51 1
        
        You're cheating on me with another flame war. -- nm - David Oct 15, 12:54
- bastage! -- nm - Jim Oct 15, 12:39
- We meet again, Agent Provocateur. -- nm - David Oct 15, 12:35
If you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it. nm - Jim Oct 15, 12:32
NBC9: We won't show the resolution live. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 12:32 20
- That means they know something we don't. The kids dead. -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 12:40 17
  - Ok ok ok! Media didn't know. Hope kid isn't dead. But boy if he's alive he's grounded for life. I wonder if the town will bill him for this. -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 12:55 3
    - I'm sure they will have to answer quite a few questions -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 12:56 2
      - Child services is most definitely coming over but I'm sure it's just a rowdy kid. -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 13:00 1
        
        I meant the FAA. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 13:06
  - Well then you all owe me a beer if I'm right. :P -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 12:45 8
    - Uhh, no. - kelly Oct 15, 12:48
    - You can send me my beer at:...... - Will Hunting Oct 15, 12:47 5
      - I hope I'm wrong. -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 12:48 4
        
        He may be dead. You were wrong when you said the media knew he was dead. -- nm - mara Oct 15, 12:52 1
        
        Oh ok. I meant right on being dead. Not the media knowing something. Sorry. And again I hope I'm wrong. -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 12:54
        
        You already are. - Will Hunting Oct 15, 12:50 1
        
        Other proof: if the media knew a kid had died, they would be very pleased to tell us! Over and over -- nm - Guigue Oct 15, 12:52
    - we already know you're wrong. They didn't know anything, since they were surprised that he wasn't in there. -- nm - Reagen Oct 15, 12:46
  - Boo hoo. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 12:43
  - They were afraid he had asphyxiated, or would suffer fatal trauma - but since he wasn't in it ... well ... -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 12:42
  - Ah, no. -- nm - mara Oct 15, 12:42
  - Uhh, no. -- nm - kelly Oct 15, 12:42
- he's landing -- nm - GWAA Oct 15, 12:35
- Probably within 30 minutes. -- nm - nubby Oct 15, 12:33

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