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pidan posted:Something that's not machines falling over: The Cleveland balloon cloud of 1986! The dollop podcast about this: Baloonfest
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pidan posted:Something that's not machines falling over: The Cleveland balloon cloud of 1986! All worth is for that photo.
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Apr 27, 2017 08:09
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It's a good enough picture that it almost justifies the existence of Cleveland itself.
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Clevelanders often remember fondly of a better time, a simpler time. A time when the sky was filled with cheerful balloons. As those of a certain age wax nostalgic for those heady days, if you can listen closely, you can often catch murmurs of "It was worth the deaths" on the wind.
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Apr 27, 2017 09:16
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Balloons killed more people than Three Mile Island.
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Apr 27, 2017 09:24
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How did the two people die? It isn't in the linked article.
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Apr 27, 2017 14:21
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haveblue posted:How did the two people die? It isn't in the linked article. Clearly they died of fun. (A fishing boat capsized and the coast guard couldn't get to them due to the balloons.)
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Apr 27, 2017 14:31
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pidan posted:Something that's not machines falling over: The Cleveland balloon cloud of 1986! No latex allergies back then, eh?
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Apr 27, 2017 14:40
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haveblue posted:How did the two people die? It isn't in the linked article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jksRQcI9NA
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Apr 27, 2017 15:44
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This is a color blindness test, right?
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Apr 27, 2017 17:45
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hanales posted:Clearly they died of fun. Holy poo poo, the coast guard suuuuucks.
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Apr 27, 2017 18:53
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JoelJoel posted:Holy poo poo, the coast guard suuuuucks.
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Apr 27, 2017 19:00
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IM TREB HEINING, BALLOON MASTER
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Apr 27, 2017 19:05
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pidan posted:The news report is worth a watch: Oh yeah the video of the release is really cool. I'm thinking of that movie trailer I saw about the most dangerous boat rescue the Coast Guard ever conducted, and all the characters are like "We go where no one else will!!! Nothing stops the Coast Guard!!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQmllwTKtqU&t=83s Ahhhh, too many balloons!
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Apr 27, 2017 19:24
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JoelJoel posted:Holy poo poo, the coast guard suuuuucks. They had a helicopter rescue unit that had trouble flying and seeing through 1.4 million balloons.
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Apr 27, 2017 19:26
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I'm guessing balloons don't do much good for a helicopter's engines
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Apr 27, 2017 19:39
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FuturePastNow posted:I'm guessing balloons don't do much good for a helicopter's engines I'm guessing that when the rotors hit all those balloons it would have sounded like a thousand people popping bubble wrap
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Apr 27, 2017 19:42
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Did the person whom released the balloons get charged with involuntary manslaughter?
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Apr 27, 2017 19:50
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zedprime posted:It's hard to ascribe to balloons or not but the general idea is how do you tell the difference between a head in the water and a balloon on the water when the lake is covered with balloons?
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Apr 27, 2017 20:15
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MF_James posted:Did the person whom released the balloons get charged with involuntary manslaughter? No, but the charity that organized the release did get sued multiple times. http://www.cleveland.com/remembers/index.ssf/2011/08/balloonfest_1986_the_spectacle.html
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ulmont posted:No, but the charity that organized the release did get sued multiple times. quote:A Montville Township woman sued United Way Services of Cleveland for $100,000 yesterday ... claiming her prize Arabian horses suffered permanent injuries when they were spooked by balloons released during Balloon Fest 1986. poor ol' freckles, thought of balloons and died
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Apr 27, 2017 20:24
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Horses being spooked should not be covered under any sort of insurance as it's a core feature of the species.
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Baronjutter posted:Horses being spooked should not be covered under any sort of insurance as it's a core feature of the species. On the flip side, horse owners being predominantly self-centred assholes is pretty well documented. Strangely, of the ones I've met, they're all either completely insufferable or the nicest people you'd ever hope to meet with no middle ground.
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Apr 28, 2017 00:32
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:No latex allergies back then, eh? Nope. No nut allergies either. Those are millennial maladies.
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Apr 28, 2017 00:48
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Just like gluten
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IPCRESS posted:On the flip side, horse owners being predominantly self-centred assholes is pretty well documented. Strangely, of the ones I've met, they're all either completely insufferable or the nicest people you'd ever hope to meet with no middle ground. I'm not a horse owner, but I do ride one. As far as I can see horse riders fall in the following categories: - Girls who care more about horses than about humans. They'll be very nice to horses but rude to people. - Generally nice people who don't care about stereotypes and are just here for an enjoyable ride. These people are often somewhat older. They don't take things too seriously when it comes to horse sports. It's just a way to relax, like a run or a ball game. - And then there's that ONE guy who can only be described as a  brony and keeps driving his horse into walls because asking him to pay attention for more than 5 seconds is impossible.But that's in the amateur riding scene. I don't think I've ever met professional horse sportspeople.
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Apr 28, 2017 06:43
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Carbon dioxide posted:I'm not a horse owner, but I do ride one. As far as I can see horse riders fall in the following categories: I thought the advantage to horses and donkeys over cars is that they won't run into walls/trees/cliffs if the driver is a dumbass. What kind of retard horse just walks into a wall?
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Facebook Aunt posted:I thought the advantage to horses and donkeys over cars is that they won't run into walls/trees/cliffs if the driver is a dumbass. What kind of retard horse just walks into a wall? Horses are incredibly stupid.
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Facebook Aunt posted:I thought the advantage to horses and donkeys over cars is that they won't run into walls/trees/cliffs if the driver is a dumbass. What kind of retard horse just walks into a wall? If you were carrying a goon who wants to sodomize you, you might start walking into walls 
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Apr 28, 2017 07:45
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Death by ballon, sure a fate reserved for clowns.
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Apr 28, 2017 07:46
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oohhboy posted:Death by ballon, sure a fate reserved for clowns. Brazilian ministers
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Apr 28, 2017 08:00
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How much Helium is a million balloons? Was the local supply of Helium for non serious stuff affected? Also they should have just down what Mythbusted did that one time and see if they could lift a kid.
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quote:in a telephone call he made during the flight, he stated that if someone could just explain how to use his GPS he could relay his position to rescuers That's a pretty sizable omission in the old preparation plan there, padre.
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Apr 28, 2017 08:29
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Memento posted:That's a pretty sizable omission in the old preparation plan there, padre. How can you not know how to use a GPS? You literally just press the button marked 'on' and is displays your position in big letters. My grandmother and my 8 year old could both work out how to use it. Heck, my CEO could probably work it out, once he stopped chewing it.
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PhazonLink posted:How much Helium is a million balloons? Making a very rough estimate of 1 litre of helium per balloon, we get around 1 gram of lifting force per balloon at sea level, so 1.5 million balloons can lift 1500kg or around 3300 pounds. Around the weight of a modern midsize sedan.
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Sagebrush posted:Making a very rough estimate of 1 litre of helium per balloon, we get around 1 gram of lifting force per balloon at sea level, so 1.5 million balloons can lift 1500kg or around 3300 pounds. Around the weight of a modern midsize sedan. I think you’re really underestimating the volume of those balloons. From the boat photo, they seem to be normal party balloons. Twelve‐inch balloons seem to be typical, and according to this chart, those have a volume of fifteen litres. Because of the weight of the latex and the compression it puts on the helium, they can only lift about twelve grams each. So that’s about twenty tonnes of useful lift for the lot of them. e: Then again, they demonstrably sunk and sat on the surface of the lake, so that does suggest they had negative lift. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 09:16 on Apr 28, 2017 |
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She should be wearing gloves and eye protection.
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http://i.imgur.com/ynDZvPV.mp4
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