re: #79 SixDegrees

Once I saw a picture of the balloon with people next to it for scale, it was obviously way too small to lift a child, or even a cat. What’s odd is that dad, the meteorologist who designed and built the thing, didn’t inform authorities that there was no way it posed the danger everyone was shrieking about. Why didn’t he pin the officer in charge to the wall and tell him to call off the balloon chase, and focus on the neighborhood, since his son couldn’t possibly be in the air. It seems inconceivable to me that he wasn’t aware of this fact.

Listening to the news anchors follow the story while it happened its obvious they have no clue. The balloon wasn’t even fully inflated. It couldn’t even lift a bucket of chicken. And they were all theorizing about speed and altitude and how the rescue mission will go. It shouldn’t be funny, but these people are so dumb I can’t help.