First splat

It says right there, some NASA scientists were crushed in the accident.

I think the old couple needs to sue, sell chunks of their car on eBay, and retire rich!

that Australia is upside down

He said the balloon was then seen lying partially-inflated above a paddock "like a white Uluru".

what's a paddock?

and what is with the reference to an albino version of a star trek character?

i know you australians typically speak german like your neighbors to the north, but if you are going to write a story in the american language, try to more precise

thanks

Why did you think a big balloon would stop people?

> Rife with typo's

Ah, the ireny.

freud, schwarzenegger, mozart, schrodinger...

ok, that's respectable

respect to you australians then

but you really should stick with your native german language

Why was he trying to engineer a lead balloon? Didn't he watch that episode of MythBusters?

I remember when NASA could sling shot a satellite 40,000+ miles looping around a planet 32 times, ricochet of an asteroid and drop a golf ball in a cup of coffee in the middle of Denver blindfolded with both hands behind their back.

Now they can't remember to convert metric to imperial (and back again) and can't launch a ballon...

Damn NASA used to be the best and the brightest. I worry if we'll be able to feed ourselves by the end of the year :P

NASA's performance was once the measure of the USA's intellectual success... I'm worried... apparently more money on education doesn't = smarter people...

I mean come on it's not rocke...errr wait...

Exactly. I can't understand any of this:

"That balloon was as large as the Melbourne Cricket Ground when fully inflated, carried a two-tonne payload and travelled in the outer edge of the atmosphere at 50 metres per second."

They should know that in the US the standard units of measurement are football fields for length or area, elephants for mass, lightning strikes for probability, NASCARs for speed, DVDs for data, and swimming pools for volume.

"Outer edge of the atmosphere"? How many Empire State Buildings up is that?

I think I figured out why the launch failed.

Please turn in your card at the door.

Was there a little boy in it? Is he OK??

austria before world war ii was known as the empire of austria-hungry

this was solved by the invasion of turkey

turkey is a delicious country, especially on thanksgiving day, which is the day turkey was able to remove the hungry part of the austro-hungryian empire

The director of the Balloon Launching Centre, Professor Ravi Sood, says no one was hurt.
But he says the scientists involved in the NASA-sponsored project are crushed.

Rather harsh punishment don't you think?

Not everyone has an Australians refined taste for wood alcohol. Most can't tell which car's radiator was used in producing the alcohol or how many hours old it is.

you compare a country to a misspelling of its name and you have the audacity to question my grasp on geography?

put another shrimp on the barbie and go watch the sound of music kid, the part where crocodile dundee teaches julie andrew's eight kids how to sing

learn something before you spout your ignorance, stupid child

It may be a bad day for balloon launches, but at least jokes seem to be flying right past some people.

Yup, unfortunately for NASA this story may yet balloon out of control or at least blown up out of proportion. Then again, I may just be full of hot air.