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Mini Stonehenge Vs. Balloon Boy
Posted by gtally • 10/18/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: balloon boy, stonehenge
Which is cooler? The scientific discovery of a new miniature Stonehenge or the thrilling saga of Balloon Boy and his Balloon Daddy?
Please express yourself on these burning topics of the day...
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Mini Stonehenge? where? how?-
Just a stone's throw from the Big Stonehenge:
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/photogalleries/bluestonehenge-mini...
Maybe the Ancient Britons built a scale model first before tackling the real thing?
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mini Stonehenge!!!
Blue Stone Henge, they think it might have been a crematorium. Pretty cool find!-
Plus, scientists discovered a massive "new" ring around Saturn that is bigger than the Sun, the "missing link" Ardi was unveiled, and NASA bombed the moon. What an awesome week for science, topped off with a filling dessert of a UFO over Colorado with a boy supposedly stowed away inside it. Very satisfying.
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The giant new ring around Saturn is cooler then both.-
Yeah, Saturn's new rings are extremely awesome. But my heart will always be with Trans Neptunian Objects in the Kuiper Belt. Sedna...a "brand new" dwarf planet in our Solar System...how cool is that?
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I vote the mini stonehenge. The balloon boy hoax was lame and his parents need a good swift kick somewhere that hurts.-
I still don't think it was a hoax. If I were Falcon and my Balloon Daddy had all those anger issues, I would've hid in a box, too.
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I guess the trial will determine if it was a hoax or not.
In the mean time, mini-Stonehenge is cool!!!
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Balloon kid is just getting annoying - it was fake! Mini Stonehenge wins.-
I save all my opprobrium for the Balloon Daddy. The guy is seriously creepy.
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"At least one archaeologist thinks Bluestonehenge may have been a sort of crematorium." Well what if another archeologist thinks that Bluestonehenge was an ancient fast food station, like McBluestonehenge and McStonehenge. I mean there were ashes discovered in the holes. Who's to say they weren't baking bread or making ancient pizza. I hate to rag on archeologists, but their their "stories" should not be treated as scientific fact. I'm starting to think Archeology and English Majors may be one in the same.-
I definitely think that Mini Stonehenge had something to do with fast food and the Ancient Britons merely forgot to "supersize" their order.
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Well they had to have somewhere to stop and eat on their way to the big McStonehenge.
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Ho! Palpable hit! Hatin' on English Majors, not differentiating the Fine Arts from the Criticism.
That's cold, yo.
And my vote is for Mini!Stonehenge, Balloon Family needs to go to rehab for attention addiction. -
*If* food was involved, it definitely involved kebabs... not pizza.
(And mushy peas, most likely.) -
All hail the mushy peas.
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What do British Druids eat, anyway?
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Wow. No wonder the Druids all died out due to heart attacks. Do they wipe up the grease off their chins with their long, white beards?
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I think that was the reason for the beards.
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It's a little known fact that Druids are total slobs and highly messy eaters. It's a minor miracle they keep their flowing robes white at all. Fortunately, Getafix has a secret potion to take the stains out, one he won't even share with Asterix and Obelix!
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(Baking Soda)
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Nope. OxiClean.
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@ismsandologies I'm not hating on English Majors. I was one and have my BA in English. I'm hating on Archeology Majors.
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Baconhenge looks so delicious.
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@trailofpen Oh, gotcha. They do think they're something special, don't they, with their chisels and whatnot.
I heard in the last days that the druids switched to grilled sacrifices because the gods had an obesity epidemic. And only charged five of their ancient currency for what appears to be about a foot of bread and varieties of fillings. -
Their feet (both physical and measurement unit wise) were smaller back then, which means they were getting less stuffed bread for their druid money. Those greedy McStonehenge bastards, always out to cut corners and make a profit!
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crpitt Bacon stonehenge. Very good! All in good taste.
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cool ^^-
Very cool. Oooh! What if we flew the Heene balloon over Stonehenge? Now that would be something!
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balloon boy!!-
Hear hear! I doubt if you filled Stonehenge with helium that it would get very far!
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When I was a kid, it was all about America's Stonehenge.
www.stonehengeusa.com/
I vote mini-stonehenge.-
I agree. It's a sorry state of affairs when the U.S. starts losing the international henge race. If only we would get more school kids to major in Druidical Studies and Henge Making, we wouldn't be so far behind in our Neolithic Technology!
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mini-stonehenge as well as "new ring" for Saturn - I'll take new scientific/archeological/geographical finds over some dumbass subjecting his family to bullshit for his own 30 seconds in the limelight any day.-
I know... pitiful, huh?
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Don't forget bombing the moon. The moon had it coming, I say.
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LOL -- such fabulous footage from that moon bombing, no?
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I got up at some ungodly hour and watched it live on NASA TV. No spectacular 4 mile plume jettisoned into space, but watching LCROSS get closer and closer to the crater was pretty cool.
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I was totally sleeping.
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You missed out on all the fun, then. It was worth the bleary eyes and mildly comatose state for the rest of the day. Then again, I'm like that most days.
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I prefer a Henge any day. Stonehenge itself was on my list of things to see when I was on vacation in the UK, and it was just a fascinating experience.
Though admittedly, publicity hounds of the balloon family type have probably been around almost as long as those monoliths. -
wha...?
*crawls back under rock* -
I would naturally of plumped for Mini Stonehenge on this burning question of the day but upon looking at the pictures supplied it's obvious to me that this "Mini Stonehenge" is naught but an old traffic roundabout probably dating from the early 1960's when the petrolised motor carriage was first introduced into England.
So I am reluctantly going to go for balloon boy. What do I win?-
A ride in the Magical, Fantabulous Heene Balloon over the cobalt blue autumn skies of Colorado!
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Can I take the cash equivalent instead? I am scared of ending up in one of those camps if I ever go to Amerika.
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At all our camps, you get to make crafts out of macaroni and yarn. It'll be fun! And the cash equivalent is in devalued U.S. dollars, so you might be able to buy a pack of gum with it, or something equally worthwhile.
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Do I get to faun over president Obama like a starstruck kitten?
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Only if you award him some kind of prize first. And striking kittens with stars is highly illegal and immoral in the U.S., thank you very much!
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Spamming much?
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I agree. Mini Stonehenge is definitely a sinister conspiracy to distract the sheeple from the creeping socialist agenda in the U.S. That's why they located it on Salisbury Plain -- no one would suspect their diabolical plot there!
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jajajajajajaja gtally!
So, Obama hid Nibiru in the newly found ring of Saturn too?
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He taped his fake birth certificate to Nibiru and flew both to Saturn on the Heene flying saucer balloon! Then he bombed the moon to distract a gullible populace!
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Is there no end to the machinations of this man? Why do you suppose he faked and planted Ardi, the might-be-missing link? I know you have the wisdom to see through this kefluffle, too.
Here I thought you were talking about the mini-Stonehenge on my desk, which is located three inches due east of the heads of Easter Island. I was surprised to read that scientists were allowed to study it without even mentioning it to me.
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I think the Hawaiian hulu girl and the Tiki head paperweight on my desk might be up to something, as well. I think I'll hide my letter opener before they turn it socialist.
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I loved the balloon people on Wife Swap-
Balloon Daddy is a total loon. Watching him is like watching a train wreck happen.
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that is what makes them so interesting!
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I still don't think it was a hoax.
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Perhaps you've been breathing a bit too much balloon boy helium??
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Seriously, I don't think it was premeditated. I think it was a comedy of errors with a whole lot of stupid mixed in for good measure. I think the kid hid 'cause he was scared to death of Balloon Daddy, then maybe Balloon Daddy thought after the fact that he might be able to cash in on the whole thing. But the whole thing strikes me as w-a-a-a-a-y too stupid to be planned in advance.
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Then you have a better opinion of basic human nature than I do, gtally.
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Maybe not re: basic human nature. I simply can't give Balloon Daddy that much credit for being so venal and smart BEFORE the incident.
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I heard you say that something was WAY too stupid to be planned in advance.
My understanding is that there is NOTHING too stupid to be planned in advance... especially by someone desperate for publicity. -
This will never go anywhere because the Sheriff already blew it with his response to the media. The cops look incompetent for not searching the Heene's attic... as well as upgrading their charges after the initial charges were found not to be "serious enough."
www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/10/18/courtwatch/entry5394579.shtml
This is a mob response and a bumbling police reaction to the sharp public criticism they face. I predict a media circus with a minor sentence and a reality show on the horizon...Mission Accomplished! -
Well, a reality show of storm-chasers and their kids sounds a lot more interesting than a separated couple and their 8 kids :-P
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How about a "Where in the World in Carmen Sandiego?" show where the producers hide Falcon each week and we have to guess where he is?
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As long as he never uses a red/white striped shirt or else they would be in copyright infringement, jajajajaja
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@gtally
I don't know about mob response (admittedly, I haven't followed this at closely as you seem to have)... but my concern is that people cannot be allowed to call upon emergency services for no reason. There could have been a legitimate need for those services elsewhere in that community AND the police need to be able to respond to the report of a missing child *without* having to guess whether it's legitimate or not.
At the very least, that family should shoulder the bill for deployment of the police/fire crews that responded to their false report, IMO. -
Mini Stonehenge gets my vote. Balloon boy is just sad and I missed the whole deal and found out it the next day.
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