Xref: utzoo sci.physics:4533 sci.electronics:3928 rec.autos.tech:4664 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!ontmoh!peter From: peter@ontmoh.UUCP (Peter Renzland) Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.electronics,rec.autos.tech Subject: Can 31 party balloons aggravate 1 police RADAR? Message-ID: <880928.0208.11468@ontmoh.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 88 06:08:49 GMT Distribution: na Organization: Ontario Ministry of Health -- Decision Support, Toronto, Canada Lines: 25 While driving an 11 year old Mazda GLC filled with 31 balloons and a passenger, I was stopped for speeding -- 88 km/h in a 60 km/h zone. I had just turned onto the road from a side street, and had only gone a few hundred metres before being stopped. The 31 balloons were filled with helium and had "metallic" colours. Are "metallic" colours on balloons really metallic? Might speed-detect radar respond to such balloons? We know that lighter-than-air balloons move forward inside an accelerating car. And the balloons are vibrating (back and _forth_) in the car. Does anyone with expertise in these matters care to comment on this? -- , @ _{)_ , \/( )\/"\/\ /\/ Peter Renzland, Ontario Ministry of Health /=\ /==\ (416) 964-9141 peter@ontmoh.UUCP /___\ |/\| uunet!attcan!ontmoh!peter _/ \_ \# _# << Je danse, donc je suis. >>