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November 21st 04, 01:43 AM

(Len Over 21) wrote in message ...
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(La Cucaracha) writes:

Len apparently has simply *refused* to even look at the information you
presented.

No way, he surfed 'em and you can bank it but he doesn't have the
gonads to 'fess up and admit he was wrong. As usual.

Nope. WRONG. ERROR.

Didn't need to surf some selected websites NOW.

Tsk. I'd already known of amateur BALLOONISTS who went
unmanned high-ballooning a decade ago.

So...where was I "wrong?"

La Cucaracha, you are way over your head on this...but then
that happens with regularity.

Mike Coslo claimed he could go to "100,000 feet altitude" or
near space" (as he states it) with "latex weather balloons."
I claim he can't do that...with those same "latex weather
balloons." Atmospheric density and pressure won't allow it and
those "latex weather balloons will burst below 50,000 feet.

Does La cucaracha know of Standard Atmosphere? It's in all
the fancy flying texts, been there for decades. Pressure,
density, temperature all there, all quite good enough for estimating
some balloon experiments with their ultimate altitudes versus
total balloon plus payload weights. Doesn't have to be exquisitely
textbook accurate to begin with, just some estimates, what is
colloquially called "ball park figures."

Did you see any estimates of weight, altitude, or ANY cost figures
presented in here? I didn't. I doubt anyone else saw them.

Apparently the "dreamers" (or, as they self-ephemistically call
themselves, "concept managers") don't consider some estimates
as necessary. Nope, they have a CONCEPT but that is way way
short of ANY sort of estimated numbers of anything.

"Concept" is just a hunch, a sort of emotional daydream of an idea,
ephemeral like a gas without those estimates.

Apparently these expert-knowledge balloonists can float on Will
and Idea, because others have done so before? Tsk.

So I guess it's back to talking about the Morse code test! 8^)

YES! QRX while I dial up Carl Stevenson on the other line . .

Why? Does your whip need fresh blood?

Nobody's done that for a while!

Must be. Cucaracha Kelly's whip hasn't drawn blood in a long
time.

Standard atmosphere at sea level: 1013mb (actually 1012.8).