To: driftless2
Missed that Mythbusters segment, but I was near Los Angeles when one man launched himself high over the city with only 45 helium balloons:
True Story
41 posted on
10/19/2009 3:28:04 AM PDT by
RightField
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To: RightField
The MBs were testing the myth as seen in a Mr. Bean movie where a kid was taken hundreds of feet up into the air by about six or eight helium filled balloons. It literally took them thousands of ballons to lift one forty pound (if that) small girl a few feet off the ground.
42 posted on
10/19/2009 3:31:10 AM PDT by
driftless2
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