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Brazil priest flying party balloons lost at sea.
"Irrational beliefs ultimately lead to irrational acts." -- Larry Dighera http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...28192120080422 Brazil priest flying party balloons lost at sea Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:35pm EDT Photo Video Brazilian priest lost at sea BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian priest is missing after he drifted out to sea while trying to set a record for a flight using helium-filled party balloons, authorities said on Tuesday. Father Adelir Antonio de Carli began his flight suspended in a harness-like seat from 1,000 balloons of various colors on Sunday in the southern port of Paranagua. He had intended to fly 20 hours due west but unexpected winds carried the 42-year-old Roman Catholic priest out over the south Atlantic on a southeasterly course. .... "We found bits of balloons all along the coast," said Joao dos Santos Junior, deputy fire commander in the coastal town of Sao Francisco do Sul. De Carli's seat was lined with air-tight pockets that can be pumped up and there are several islands in the region that he could have washed up on, dos Santos said. .... http://content.usatoday.com/communit...20d e%20Carli http://www.usatoday.com/news/topstor...52234299_x.htm Brazil navy ends search for missing balloonist priest SAO PAULO, Brazil — Brazil's navy has dropped its search for a priest who vanished more than a week ago while floating over the Atlantic with a cluster of party balloons, a spokeswoman said Monday. .... Navy spokeswoman Lt. Catia Sandri said the hunt, conducted with one helicopter and two boats, was called off over the weekend because no sign of the priest was found after 135 hours of searching. .... The air force ended its four-day search for the priest on Thursday after its planes covered more than 1,900 square miles of land and sea. .... The priest had been trying to raise money to build a rest stop and worship center for truckers. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,5504396.photo http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080423/..._flying_priest The cleric's former flight teacher called his disappearance a "tragedy foretold." Paragliding instructor Marcio Andre Lichtnow, who gave courses to the Rev. Adelir Antonio de Carli three years ago, described him as a "headstrong, anxious individual who was always in a rush." "After two or three months, I asked him to abandon the course because of these personality traits, which are not the ideal profile for a paraglider," Lichtnow told The Associated Press by telephone. "So what happened comes as no big surprise." .... The priest hoped his flight would help raise money for a center where truck drivers could stop "to rest and receive the gospel," said Denise Gallas, treasurer at his Sao Cristovao parish. Lichtnow said de Carli phoned him days before liftoff. "I told him that the winds would carry him all the way to South Africa," Lichtnow said. "He said he had studied everything very carefully and that he would go ahead. I honestly thought he was joking." http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstor...9520-20392816/ 24/04/2008 Priest Adelir de Carli floats off on ballons Priest floats off on ballons (Pic:Reuters) A cluster of balloons were found floating in the ocean yesterday - but with no sign of the missing priest who was strapped to them for a charity flight. They were found off Florianopolis, southern Brazil, near where Rev Adelir Antonio de Carli was last heard of on Sunday night. The churchman, 41, an experienced skydiver, had undergone survival training and took five days of supplies - leading rescuers to remain confident he will be found safe. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/...742887409.html Some American adventurers have used helium balloons to emulate Larry Walters - who in 1982 rose three miles above Los Angeles in a lawn chair lifted by balloons. A video of Carli posted on the G1 website of Globo TV showed the smiling 41-year-old priest slipping into a flight suit, being strapped to a seat attached to a huge column green, red, white and yellow balloons, and soaring into the air to the cheers of a crowd. According to Gallas, the priest soared to an altitude of 6,000 metres then descended to about 2,500 metres for his planned flight to the city of Dourados, 750km north-west of his parish. But winds pushed him in another direction, and Carli was some 50km off the coast when he last contacted Paranagua's port authority, Gallas said. |
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Brazil priest flying party balloons lost at sea.
Larry Dighera wrote in
: "Irrational beliefs ultimately lead to irrational acts." That's what believeing in a virgin birth will get you. Bertie |
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Brazil priest flying party balloons lost at sea.
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Brazil priest flying party balloons lost at sea.
On Apr 29, 7:09*am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Larry Dighera wrote : "Irrational beliefs ultimately lead to irrational acts." That's what believeing in a virgin birth will get you. "Mom, dad, I swear I'm a virgin" -Robert |
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Brazil priest flying party balloons lost at sea.
"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message ... On Apr 29, 7:09 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Larry Dighera wrote : "Irrational beliefs ultimately lead to irrational acts." That's what believeing in a virgin birth will get you. "Mom, dad, I swear I'm a virgin" -Robert The only other explanation is God did it! |
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Brazil priest flying party balloons lost at sea.
"Robert M. Gary" wrote in
: On Apr 29, 7:09*am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Larry Dighera wrote innews:0j4e145c9q2ht1hth2li7a3uq1iq : "Irrational beliefs ultimately lead to irrational acts." That's what believeing in a virgin birth will get you. "Mom, dad, I swear I'm a virgin" There's a tribe somewhere, I think it's in the so. pacific, who doesn't know the facts of life. At least they didn't about thirty years ago when @I heard of this first.They believe that once a couple is married,they have babies, period. The sex thing doens't cause it at all. As evidence, they point ouf that they have a number of albino women that it is forbidden to have sex with, punishable by death. These women have babies and noone would be crazy enough to sleep with them, right? The other bit of evidence they have is that women almost never get pregrant before they are married even though pre-marital sex is commonplace. That one's a bit harder to explain... I wish I could remember who they were or where they were. i can't seem to find anything about them on the net.. Bertie |
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Brazil priest flying party balloons lost at sea.
On Apr 29, 8:41 am, Larry Dighera wrote:
The priest hoped his flight would help raise money for a center where truck drivers could stop "to rest and receive the gospel," said Denise Gallas, treasurer at his Sao Cristovao parish. It's hard to blame the guy, striving to construct a center where the rarely achieved goal of sleeping through a sermon might be commonly realized. ----- - gpsman |
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Brazil priest flying party balloons lost at sea.
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:55:12 -0400, "Darkwing"
theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote in : The only other explanation is God did it! Would you consider such a belief rational? |
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Brazil priest flying party balloons lost at sea.
On Apr 30, 6:42*am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
"Robert M. Gary" wrote : On Apr 29, 7:09*am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote: Larry Dighera wrote innews:0j4e145c9q2ht1hth2li7a3uq1iq : "Irrational beliefs ultimately lead to irrational acts." That's what believeing in a virgin birth will get you. "Mom, dad, I swear I'm a virgin" There's a tribe somewhere, I think it's in the so. pacific, who doesn't know the facts of life. At least they didn't about thirty years ago when @I heard of this first.They believe that once a couple is married,they have babies, period. The sex thing doens't cause it at all. As evidence, they point ouf that they have a number of albino women that it is forbidden to have sex with, punishable by death. These women have babies and noone would be crazy enough to sleep with them, right? The other bit of evidence they have is that women almost never get pregrant before they are married even though pre-marital sex is commonplace. That one's a bit harder to explain... I wish I could remember who they were or where they were. i can't seem to find anything about them on the net.. This mayt help: Adolescence in Pacific Island Societies, edited by Gilbert Herdt and Stephen C Leavitt. ASAO Monograph 16. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. ISBN cloth, 0-8229-4068-X; paper, 0-8229- 5672-1; xii + 239 pages, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, US$50.00; paper, US$22.95. Mrs. Bunyip may wonder what you are up to when/if it replaces your usual bedside reading... Cheers |
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Brazil priest flying party balloons lost at sea.
Senoirs think you're an irrational nimcompoop!!
Larry Dighera wrote on 4/29/2008 : "Irrational beliefs ultimately lead to irrational acts." -- Larry Dighera |
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