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.
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