flynrider via AviationKB.com wrote:


I'm not sure which "Mythbusters" you watch, but on the one I watch, they
were able to duplicate the feat. As I recall, the balloons carried one of
the guys up to the limit of the teather. He then shot the balloons until he
returned to earth.

I saw that too.

They had no doubt that it was possible. Adam was lifted quite handily.