Steve Fossett

A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even for one day. A gas balloon, which usually uses helium, has the problem that the helium cools at night when the sun is not on it, and you have to throw ballast overboard to keep it from going to the surface.

American Aviator

Kate Burton

Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.

Welsh Actress

Richard Cohen

Trump's presidency will fail. Just don't ask me how and when. It will collapse because at its center is a hollow man, lacking ballast, whose chaos cannot be contained.

American Journalist

Edward T. Hall

For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.

American Scientist

Max Baucus

Trade and investment have come to be the foundation, the ballast, of the U.S.-China relationship, providing great stability.

American Politician

Minna Antrim

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

American Writer

William Penn

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

English Leader

Used in nautical contexts to describe how ships maintain balance in water.

Maritime Stability

In marine and aviation, 'ballast' often refers to weight that can be adjusted or moved.

Adjusting Weight

Different crafts like ships and balloons use ballast but in varied forms, sandbags or water.

Craft Specific

The ballast in vehicles affects handling and can be used for traction and stability.

Vehicle Performance

Car ballast is often not visible; it's built into the vehicle's design.

Inside the Car

Ballast for railways provides foundational support and correct drainage for tracks.

Railroad Support

Track ballast needs to be maintained and sometimes replaced to ensure rail safety.

Track Maintenance

Ballast is sometimes used metaphorically to mean something that provides emotional stability.

Metaphorical Use

The term conveys reliability and steadiness during challenging or unpredictable events.

Uncertain Situations

 When they come back, they actually dump this oily ballast water into the ocean. Why do they do that? Because it's cheaper, because they don't pay the real environmental costs. We usually don't, and we want to start getting the accounting system right so we can pay the real cost. At first, the Argentine government said, "No, there's no way.

Dee Boersma: Pay...

 and then they sail empty back. So quite often you load water for ballast. So we can actually hitch a ride for free. And in the middle of this sort of harbor bath, we're actually going to put the actual Little Mermaid. So the real Mermaid, the real water, and the real bikes. And when she's gone, we're going to invite

Bjarke Ingels: 3...

 that's working really hard. It's a lot of ballast and structure and support around the back, and I'm going to show you the photos that aren't on my website. They're photos of the back of a set, the part that's not designed for the audience to see, however much work it's doing.

Mind-blowing stage...

 spiritual level. But how do we do that? In ballooning, or in life, how do we change altitude? How do we go from the metaphor to something more practical that we can really use every day? Well, in a balloon it's easy, we have ballast.

Bertrand Piccard's...

 extreme advantage of endemic species in these new locations I'm worried about specific biological invasions even opana fortunate known as the golden muscle is an Asian by vote brought to South America in ballast water off ship in

Sequencing genomes to...

 is a sticky globule this is her ballast it's all she needs she climbs back up to her leaf and takes up a position on the horizontal thread with her weighted filament dangling from one of her front legs

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 lessons to draw it's it's really a question of the system how the ship was loaded the ballast and many other things so the 20th century then saw how much more complex reality was but it also saw

Unintended consequences...

 playthings or ballast for tin roof tops but Ramey a devout Catholic places the unclaimed corpses in a mass grave so that their souls may rest in peace boom bah bah those who don't have money to

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 ballast for tin rooftops but ramie a devout Catholic places the unclaimed corpses in a mass grave so that their souls may rest in peace those who don't have money to ribéry the bones they're

Living Among the Dead PIPE...

 made a mistake you being the operator if you left a valve open too long and flooded a ballast tank too full any sequence of events I think you paid with your life get the hydro-zone