Hi! Roy,   
      
   On Mon, 10 Jun 13, you wrote to me:   
      
    RW> You're not familiar with the facts? Joe Kittinger was the guiding hand   
    RW> that helped the more recent person take a dive in man-no-air-ship   
    RW> space, called a high dive. He is also on record for the first man in   
    RW> space from a balloon. Facts over fiction which can be proven.   
      
   Whoopee-do.  A 19 mile skydive in an atmosphere measuring 62-75 miles is   
   hardly 'space' surfing.  If you want to speak of such adventures in the same   
   breath as mentioning (actual) space travel, then you're conveniently excluding   
   all the prior work done in ballooning in the late-1880s.   
      
    PQ>>  it was in fact a Chinese alchemist on a rocket-powered throne   
    PQ>> in the early 1000s AD.   
    RW> Got a Google link to that info? Didn't think so.   
      
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MythBusters_episodes   
      
   Look for: Season 2004 Episode #16 - "Ming Dynasty Astronaut".  (Well, look for   
   the video... I haven't.)   
      
    PQ>>   Though this was later unproven by the Mythbusters team.   
      
    RW> Ahhh, those guys ... a lot of what they do can be debunked and often   
    RW> is. Although what their show is about is a lot of fun to watch when   
    RW> they make such fools out of themselves. Especially the bald headed,   
    RW> handle barred monkey 'screwing' a football character.   
      
   That's all they're basically good for: entertainment.  If there's any real   
   /science/ included they usually provide a warning to viewers, to 'look away   
   now'.  :)   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
   ... Tuesday is Soylent Green day.   
   --- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox   
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