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I'm beginning to think the kid was never on it. After looking at it on the ground I don't think it was big enough to get off the ground with a kid in it...
Probably just a huge publicity stunt. Octomom II
You're right, here's a pic. Missing kid is in the middle.
The Heene family from Colorado live life on the edge. Wife Mayumi (43) and storm scientist Richard (45) take their three kids, Bradford (8), Ryo (7) and Falcon (5), out of school to go on storm chasing missions to prove Richard's theories about magnetic fields and gravity. If conditions are right, Mayumi wakes her family by shouting "Storm Approaching, Storm Approaching!" into a bullhorn. The family sleep in their clothes so they can leap out of bed and into the storm-mobile. Richard calls Mayumi his 'ninja wife'; she maintains equipment, drives the storm-mobile, films tornadoes and waits with the kids while Richard jumps on his motorbike, heads into the eye of the storm and launches rockets to measure magnetic forces. At home the family are as chaotic as a twister: the kids have no table manners and throw themselves around the house, and while Richard devotes every moment to his research, he expects Mayumi to cook, clean and run the house without any help.
I'm beginning to think the kid was never on it. After looking at it on the ground I don't think it was big enough to get off the ground with a kid in it...
Probably just a huge publicity stunt. Octomom II
This kid has to be dead.
Last edited by jack sommerset; 10-15-2009 at 03:51 PM.
I really doubt a balloon of that size has enough lift for a 6 year old. I don't think the kid was in it once it left the ground. Maybe he was playing in it and set it off, but that thing wouldn't leave the ground with more than a few pounds of weight.
You're right, here's a pic. Missing kid is in the middle.
The Heene family from Colorado live life on the edge. Wife Mayumi (43) and storm scientist Richard (45) take their three kids, Bradford (8), Ryo (7) and Falcon (5), out of school to go on storm chasing missions to prove Richard's theories about magnetic fields and gravity. If conditions are right, Mayumi wakes her family by shouting "Storm Approaching, Storm Approaching!" into a bullhorn. The family sleep in their clothes so they can leap out of bed and into the storm-mobile. Richard calls Mayumi his 'ninja wife'; she maintains equipment, drives the storm-mobile, films tornadoes and waits with the kids while Richard jumps on his motorbike, heads into the eye of the storm and launches rockets to measure magnetic forces. At home the family are as chaotic as a twister: the kids have no table manners and throw themselves around the house, and while Richard devotes every moment to his research, he expects Mayumi to cook, clean and run the house without any help.
Here is the rest.
Meanwhile on a quiet street in Connecticut, the Martel family -- wife Karen (43), husband Jay (50) and their two kids, Max (11) and Dean (10) -- live a life of calm and safety. Dad is so committed to safety that he runs a child-proofing business devoted to identifying dangers and risks and making sure kids stay out of harm's way. With all the precautions taken to keep them safe, Max and Dean seem to be afraid of everything..."you can fall down the stairs, get cancer from the microwave, get tapeworms from sushi, and the lava lamp could explode..." The Martels conduct safety fire drills, make sure the kids wear protective gear on their bikes and pogo-sticks and never let the boys out of their sight. The atmosphere in the house is calm and serene, and Karen and Jay are equal partners.
Or a case of, "Oh I let daddy's balloon fly away I better hide."
or "so, how much life insurance we got on falcon"?
I hope so, the family is saying he went in and took off though.
On Thursday morning, according to the family and officials, the boy got onto the aircraft and detached the rope holding it in place.
Police say the family's two boys were playing outside with the rest of the family inside the house. One son watched his little brother go inside the compartment and watched it take off
Ok think about this... the balloon is ~2Meters high by 7 meters across... Volume is PiDh... that is 3.14 times 14... ~42m3 (its considerably less than this because it is a disk not a cylinder...
Helium has a lift capacity of like 1.02kg/M3... so... say... 2.2 X 42 (and considerably less than this at 5000 ft al ude starting point colorado)
90lbs...
Minus the weight of the aircraft... 20lbs? Does a 6 year old weigh 70lbs?
Could it even have gotten off the ground with him in it?
I don't think so... and even if it had... he wouldn't have gotten high AT ALL...
lol @ an ornamental named Falcon.
Yeah real committed.
There's no way anyone was inside that thing.
That's the other family.Yeah real committed.
oh, thanks for pointing that out. didn't even read the whole thing just the bold.
Wow this is almost like a game thread,
My 2 cents is it's a set up, the dad wants attention to his work, he has submeted videos to new channels on his work on planets and storm chasing and I think they said he was on wife swap or some like that.
What better PR than throwing a balloon up and saying his kids in it and then the kids can't be found. They must be looking like crazy in that hood so the kid must know some super crazy hiding spot or the dad stash him for a bit.
the dad killed the kid and hid his body somewhere else
We need a wytch of sequ's head popping out of the balloon mid flight.
It's sad, but I also had this thought. If people would quit killing their kids for no damn good reason at all, we wouldn't need to be so su ious of the whole situation.
Ouch.
I just ran the numbers a different way and it looks like it could have been possible.
Lift of gasses varies with temperature and pressure but I am using averages.
1 liter of helium will lift 1 gram.
That converts to 16 cu ft of helium will lift 1#.
Figuring the volume of a balloon circle 20' in diameter and 5' deep I got 1570 cubic feet.
That enough to launch 98 pounds of balloon and payload.
Probably enough to carry off a 6 year old kid that weighs 50-60#.
Ya'll making fun of it, but sad truth is he probably got scarred when it was up in the air....opend the door and fell out. I hope he's just hidding somewhere.
What the ?! How did he got in there? That's sad...poor kid
If Denver Nuggets drafted DeJuan Blair, He would have jump up and caught that balloon.**
**Yea I know..."but but its a little boy", I'm joking. I hope the kids ok as much as the next person
I saw this family on wife swap. Both the wife and husband are really nuts. I don't think that there was a kid in there to begin with, but if there was, that would be really sad. Hope he's ok.
Also, this must be a slow news day if CNN and all other news channels are showing this nonstop.
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