Helium
Chemical Element
Darwin Awards...capacity intact, by luck or chance. One example is Lawnchair Larry , who attached helium filled weather balloons to a lawn chair and floated far above Long Beach, California, in July 1982. He reached an altitude of 16,000 feet and was... In this article: Darwin Awards, Russian roulette, Suicide, Helium, Charles Darwin, Lawnchair Larry, Duncan Ferguson, and Glasgow |
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L.A. Times - L.A. Now | October 15, 2009
Case of boy trapped in balloon aircraft recalls man who flew around L.A. in lawn chair
...the case of Larry Walters, who in 1982 made worldwide headlines by piloting a lawn chair attached to helium balloons 16,000 feet above Long Beach. "It was something I had to do," Walters told The Times after his flight from San Pedro...
In this article: Larry Walters, Federal Aviation Administration, Long Beach, The Tonight Show, Late Night with David Letterman, San Pedro, and New York
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History of Dumb, Dangerous Hot-Air-Balloon Adventures
...voyage of Larry Walters, known in the press as Lawn Chair Larry. On July 2, Walters, a truck driver from Long Beach, Calif., attached 42 helium-filled weather balloons to an aluminum lawn chair, and with a bottle of soda, a CB radio and a BB...
In this article: Larry Walters, Adelir de Carli, Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier, Kent Couch, Colorado, Long Beach, Fort Collins, and FAA
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Wikipedia | September 27, 2009
The Digging Leviathan
...the plot funneled outward for the entire length of the book. A few years later a guy in Long Beach (up the coast) tied a bunch of helium balloons to an armchair and flew into the stratosphere (seriously) and the event was so inspirational...
In this article: The Digging Leviathan, William Ashbless, James Blaylock, and Ace Books
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The Balloonatics
...his Times obituary, North Hollywood truck driver Larry Walters piloted a lawn chair attached to helium weather balloons 1,600 feet into the air on his way from Long Beach to San Pedro in 1982. (Walters committed suicide in 1993 at age 44.) In...
In this article: Larry Walters, Suicide, Kent Couch, Long Beach, and New York
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History of Long Beach Island, NJ - by Matthew Adams - Helium
Long Beach Island has an interesting history dating back to its discovery by ... tides along the island saw many ships get wrecked along the coast of Long Beach. ...
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CSU Long Beach
PORTFOLIO: "THE GLENN YEARS" Exhibition at CSU Long Beach, August 24 - October 10, 2004 ...
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Lawn Chair Balloon Flight
LONG BEACH, Calif, July 2 (AP) A truck driver with 45 weather ... to helium balloons 16,000 feet above Long Beach, has committed suicide at the age of 44. ...
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Helium (He) is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert monatomic chemical element that heads the noble gas group in the periodic table and whose atomic number is 2. Its boiling and melting points are the lowest among the elements and it exists only as a gas except in extreme conditions.
An unknown yellow spectral line signature in light was first observed from a solar eclipse in 1868 by French astronomer Pierre Janssen who is jointly credited with the discovery of the element with Norman Lockyer who observed the same eclipse and was the first to propose this was a new element which he named helium. In 1903, large reserves of helium were found in the natural gas fields of the United States, which is by far the largest supplier of the gas. The substance is used in cryogenics, in deep-sea breathing systems, to cool superconducting magnets, in helium dating, for inflating balloons, for providing lift in airships and as a protective gas for many industrial uses (such as arc welding and growing silicon wafers). Inhaling a small volume of the gas temporarily changes the timbre and quality of the human voice. The behavior of liquid helium-4's two fluid phases, helium I and helium II, is important to researchers studying quantum mechanics (in particular the phenomenon of superfluidity) and to those looking at the effects that temperatures near absolute zero have on matter (such as superconductivity).
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