History repeating itself (NAC)

[Huw Powell]

> > > We filled a few hundred little balloons with hydrogen and let go of them last year.  Not
> one
> > > went "Boom!!"
> >
> > Did you use them for target practice or just let let them drift away?
> > Were they red?  Why not 99?
> 
> Why would they be red in my case?

nothing personal.  It was a "joke" (barely)... 99... red balloons... 

> 
> > And last, but most important, why, exactly?
> 
> Charity ballon race.  Buy a balloon, attach a card, and see whose goes the furthest.

cool

> Frowned on now by the ecologists - litters the countrside?

not if you coat the ballons with finely ground aliumiunium and take them
out with small firearms!

MAC: Wishing they hydrogenated, instead of oxygenated, the gasoline here
in winter... my 90Q gets 27 mpg in summer and only 22.5 or so in winter!

-- 
Huw Powell

http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/

http://www.humanthoughts.org/