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The Unmanned Writer
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And released on a Friday night?

Asking for a friend. Cool






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Gonna have to be a pretty big balloon to lift off
 
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Have searched YouTube to see if it's been done before? I'm sure someone has tried it.

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It would have to be fairly large and tough enough to expand without bursting. That way you could get some real altitude.

It might be better to put a cheap battery powered flashing led array in the balloon bright flashing lights would be more eye catching and be indicative of intelligence.




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If your friend buys this balloon, he/she would be able to launch up to 50 grams of light sticks/ flashy LEDs with 20 cubic feet of squeaky air.

https://www.amazon.com/Profess...0Grams/dp/B004I45LX0

And be as much fun as a balloon full of monkeys.




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Please take video when you do it and show us !!! I think that would be FUN !!! God Bless Smile


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How about a Chem-Lite tied to a kite and flown at night behind a ship doing classified research?


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add this Parachute so when the balloon pops the light can float down slowly after,

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Can one still buy helium? Nobody is selling it around here any more. They say there’s a shortage.
 
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I had a high-school chum who made a series of candle powdered dry cleaning sacks. He'd build a circular wire frame from a clothes hanger with the hook twisted into the center and squished down to hold candlestick. Tape the mouth of the bag around the wire & there's a limp balloon.

After lighting it took surprisingly few minutes for the canopy to become filled & then buoyant. ..."so I'm told"..... His neighborhood was full of sightings in those cold winter days circa 1964ish. Hard to ID something resembling a glowing invertebrate sack floating in the depths of the night.


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Howzabout some Instant Light Powder fluid partially filled in a helium balloon?




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I had a high-school chum who made a series of candle powdered dry cleaning sacks. He'd build a circular wire frame from a clothes hanger with the hook twisted into the center and squished down to hold candlestick. Tape the mouth of the bag around the wire & there's a limp balloon.

After lighting it took surprisingly few minutes for the canopy to become filled & then buoyant. ..."so I'm told"..... His neighborhood was full of sightings in those cold winter days circa 1964ish. Hard to ID something resembling a glowing invertebrate sack floating in the depths of the night.


Add some colorful flashing lights and maybe you have a UFO powered by a balloon full of monkeys. Big Grin






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They say there’s a shortage.

When serious users for important purposes like scientific laboratories have trouble getting it, then yes, that’s a shortage. The U.S. used to be the primary producer of helium in the world, but as I understand it that has slowed and therefore it’s not so readily available for other critical uses like children’s balloons.

But just as some people are convinced that we’ll all have “Mr. Fusion” units to power our cars long before oil reserves run out, no doubt some bright fella will figure out how to transmute nitrogen or some other element into helium, and we’ll be able to go back to having all the celebratory balloons filled with it we want. Or perhaps we’ll harvest it from the Sun where it was first discovered.




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[QUOTE]Originally posted by kkina:
Howzabout some Instant Light Powder fluid partially filled in a helium balloon?

>20% Potassium Ferricyanide. Be sure and keep away from heat and acid, kiddies. Just a safety precaution. Hence the glove. Fun with cyanide! Yay!



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Can one still buy helium? Nobody is selling it around here any more. They say there’s a shortage.


Just go olde school! Hydrogen is Where It's At!
 
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Can one still buy helium? Nobody is selling it around here any more. They say there’s a shortage.


Just go olde school! Hydrogen is Where It's At!


Lots of it, and hey, worked for the Hindenberg!



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Can one still buy helium? Nobody is selling it around here any more. They say there’s a shortage.


They are full of hot air.
 
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If you've got someplace where you can shoot outside at night, shooting Tannerite with glowsticks taped to it is like shooting aliens....




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Back in the '70s I crewed on a hot air balloon. A friend was having a big 4th of July party and asked if the balloon could be tethered for up/down rides, we did it. The balloon had a battery powered strobe that would light it up at night, pretty cool. After a few rides the police showed up, there were reports of alien space craft in the area. The officer got a kick out of it, seemed he'd worked with balloons in the military.


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