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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