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The problem is that determining this at the time requires a lot of assumptions. There are a lot of unknowns that have to...
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I can’t remember who it was, but someone I follow on Twitter figured this out while the balloon was still in the air,...
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This is all pretty basic stuff — and certainly easily googled — so why, exactly, didn’t anyone in the media think of...
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Why "Balloon Boy" Could Never Have Been
The case of “Balloon Boy” Falcon Heene cost emergency services a signfcant amount of money and resulted in considerable distress to cable news viewers. This paper sets out the physics behind a helium lifting balloon and explains why it should have been obvious to both emergency services and news organisations that Falcon Heene was never aboard.
Debunking sensationalist media stunts with science! I approve. (Careful, that’s a PDF.)
Money shot:
A knowledge of basic physics on the part of the emergency services and news organisations would have avoided a great deal of wasted time, effort and money and prevented a great deal of distress.
I can’t remember who it was, but someone I follow on Twitter figured this out while the balloon was still in the air, and wondered why no one else had.
