Dr. Robert Sims tells about a retired man in California who made quite a splash awhile back. It seems he decided to tie helium filled balloons to his lawn chair. He wanted to take a ride. After he tied a few balloons to his chair it started to lift off the ground. So he called his neighbors to hold the chair down. He tied on more balloons forty, fifty, sixty of them. While the neighbors were still holding the chair the man strapped himself in. Finally, he told them, “Let go.”

He expected to float up in the air about l0 feet. He had a sharp pointed stick to pop the balloons so that he would come gently back down. His friends let go of the chair and it began to soar up in the air with this man still strapped to it 30 feet, 40 feet, 50 feet . . . right on above the house and trees and out of…