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In article <1994Jan26.122350.67750@ucl.ac.uk> zcapk43@ucl.ac.uk (Peter Newman) writes:
>From: zcapk43@ucl.ac.uk (Peter Newman)
>Subject: Where to toy balloons go?
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 12:23:50 GMT
>Keywords: balloons, orbit 

>Where do buoyant toy balloons end up?  

>I was pondering this question after watching a balloon (in the shape
>of a parrot about 50cm long) ascend until it was out-of-sight at
>about cloud level.  It seemed to me that the plastics that such
>toys are made from could probably hold a 1 atmosphere pressure
>inside, so there is no reason it wouldn't reach orbit!  

>Or is there?  And if they _do_ make orbit (or beyond), how long would they
>last?

>The idea of the Shuttle running into an orbiting parrot is kind
>of weird...:-)

>Pete Newman
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    Pete, get a life. No flame war intended.