Larry Walters – an Inspiring Person … ?
In mid-1982, Walters attached 45 eight-foot (2.4 m) weather balloons filled with helium to a lawn chair, put on a parachute, and strapped himself into the chair in the backyard of a home in San Pedro. He took his pellet gun, a CB radio, sandwiches, beer, and a camera. When his friends cut the cord that tied his lawn chair to his Jeep, Walters’s lawn chair rose rapidly to a height of about 16,000 feet (4,900 m) and was spotted from two commercial airliners in their approach to land at LAX — which resulted in an interesting exchange with Air Traffic Control.
“he has been called “the greatest scientific genius the world has known.” Yet he spent less time on science than on theology”.
He is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time, developing new laws of mechanics, gravity and laws of motion. His work Principia Mathematica laid the framework for the Scientific Revolution of the Seventeenth Century. A great polymath, Newton’s investigations also included areas of optics, religion and alchemy.
I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light.