Paul Quinn wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
    PQ>>> you're conveniently excluding all the prior work done in ballooning   
    PQ>>> in the late-1880s.   
      
    RW>> Any Aussies baloon to space and then take a nose dive to earth?   
      
    PQ> "Only those who attempt the absurd achieve the impossible."  A good   
    PQ> many other people have balked at the thought, probably for good   
    PQ> reason(s).   
      
   Their knees wobble too much.   
      
    PQ> (RE: Mythbusters...)   
      
    RW>> If they couldn't reproduce what Steven Spielberg did in the movie,   
    RW>> American Grafitti, what entertainment is that?   
      
    PQ> Ermm, it's in the journey not of the getting there.  For me, it was   
    PQ> similarly with the Rocket City Red Neck show (till their accents   
    PQ> became as grating to my patience as do Kiwi accents).  The   
    PQ> entertainment is in the 'makings' of their attempts.  Any actual   
    PQ> outcomes are unimportant.   
      
   I'd be disappointed with anything but the outcome. Getting there is   
   important, as you may learn a few things along the way, but successfully   
   doing something is worth more. If they don't succeed, then I feel like   
   I've wasted a whole hour in which I could be learning something   
   worthwhile.   
      
      
            R\%/itt   
      
      
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