pity he couldn't/didn't get sponsorship from alcoa or 1 of the other big alloy producers, and then maybe paint it up in coca-cola colors and work out the carbon offset from using the equivalent of 1billion? coke cans

looks like they have given up for the japanese balloonist who set off from japan a couple of weeks ago for the record attempt of 50?hours to alaska

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7223659.stm

failed to make a scheduled radio call and that was that