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It now occurred to me that I suffered great uneasiness in the joint of my left ankle , and a dim [ page 13 :] consciousness of my situation began to glimmer through my mind . This approach , however , was still impetuous in the extreme ; and it soon became alarmingly certain that , although I had probably not [ page 43 :] been deceived in the expectation of an atmosphere dense in proportion to the mass of the satellite , still I had been wrong in supposing this density , even at the surface , at all adequate to the support of the great weight contained in the car of my balloon . As more U.S. oil fields were found , however , interest in developing a synthetic substitute for petroleum had waned . In his haste to be the first U.S. commander to cross into Germany , however , Patton overextended his supply lines . My father told me that if I wanted to learn his technique , I had to watch him dance .