Comments - Giant Helium Balloon Pops Over Field
category: Cool | views: 80443 | posted on: 12/24/2008
This was all part of a scientific experiment to demonstrate what happens in a blonde girl's brain when you ask her to do calculus.
Earth Nelson [ban] | Dec 24 08 : 11:15am
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just a little acetone mixed in would do that, at least that's what it sounded like (curious how I would know this)
YouStupidSh1t [ban] | Dec 24 08 : 4:42am
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AWESOME?!? Where the fuck do these people live to think this was "Awesome"??
OnlyOneOar [ban] | Dec 24 08 : 4:55am
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I think fat dude in yellow was inside that pinata' for nerds.
nakedrasta007 [ban] | Dec 24 08 : 6:48am
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I dunno, if it was Hydrogen you would have seen a spectacular fireball...much like the Hindenburg disaster. http://en.wikipedia.org/w iki/Hindenburg_disaster
I could be wrong tho
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It depends on how much you have in one place. The balloon they ignited was much smaller, so the reaction happened too quick to produce a big fireball.
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Firing some off from a test tube will give you a nice puff or a pop. The more, the merrier. Here's an easy way to make some...
http://www.theodoregray.c om/PeriodicTable/...01.1/ index.html
If you hurt yourself or others, it's because you did something stupid and not because I provided an educational link.
nakedrasta007 [ban] | Dec 24 08 : 9:58am
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You're prolly right, the Hindenberg blimp's had a huge amount of hydrogen plus coatings on the fabric contained both iron oxide and aluminum-impregnated cellulose acetate butyrate (CAB), essentially acting as fuel after the explosion (hence the 'slow-burn' as opposed to just an explosion)
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@ da bomb, I left it in the ashtray right next to the box of aerosol canisters we were sniffin' ...remember?
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journeyman [ban] | Dec 24 08 : 11:14am
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If this is done with a Frozen chicken,
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journeyman [ban] | Dec 24 08 : 9:30am
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To save energy, to have to expend energy.
So I think we'll have to send up the heavy shit in the conventional manner..
Just thinking though, what we gonna do with all the counterweight shit that we send down?
I'll stick with magnetic polarity drive for now. Less mess.
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jacksawild [ban] | Dec 24 08 : 9:38am
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Most likely pure hydrogen rather than hydrogen-oxygen mix which would have been more explosive. The Hindenberg burned more furiously probably because of the aluminium-iron oxide used to dope the balloon. Ami I getting paid for this?
journeyman [ban] | Dec 24 08 : 11:00am
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I once read that when the "H" bomb was about to be tested, a survey was carried out amongst scientists and physicists of the possible outcome.
Bearing in mind that Hydrogen is the most abundant substance in the Universe, the Scientist's expressed concern that the bomb may well trigger a chain reaction, thus ending the Universe.
When the guy eventually pushed that Button, Do you think he was Grinning.......?
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BlindLemonWedgeJones [ban] | Dec 24 08 : 11:20am
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put a stick of dynamite up a chickens ass, boom! same effect!
kung POW!!chicken....
journeyman [ban] | Dec 24 08 : 4:27pm
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@ indyman.(Yeah, I know, Capslock)
...thanks dude.
coffee everywhere within spraying reach of my nose now...
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Doubtndude [ban] | Dec 24 08 : 2:23pm
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I can top that after a good nite of double bean burritos I been know to tear up some drawers
Dadeathgodv [ban] | Dec 24 08 : 2:34pm
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That's the balloons way of saying *Ka-boom* "MERRY CHRISTMAS!"
vincepatrick [ban] | Dec 24 08 : 10:37pm
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Should have been shaped as a giant cherry and popped at a higher altitude for the whole town to see.
HWPaterson [ban] | Dec 25 08 : 2:04pm
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HELLO GENIUSES!
Helium does NOT explode, it is inert.
That was a Hydrogen balloon.
journeyman [ban] | Dec 25 08 : 5:36pm
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HELLO GENIUS!
'scuse us mere mortal and ignorant wasters.
we was all doing intrestin stuff at skool, like girls, an feeving stuff from woolies, joyridin an 'at.
Santa bought you a computer huh?
Cool.
Nice box?
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Yup, this is just about the most dangerous thing you can do. The balloon was obviously too big and most likely filled with a combination of both hydrogen and oxygen (or oxyacetylene). Oxygen by itself won't do this, and hydrogen will pop (acetylene will poof black). Mixing 1 or the other with oxygen will bang. We did this in a shop class (in a garage) with a small 5" balloon and the compression blast broke a few windows. Best to cover your ears and open your mouth when you do this.
punkdude600 [ban] | Dec 31 08 : 9:44pm
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helium baloons arent possible, theyre is no way they made that. FAKE
despondent zombie [ban] | Jan 10 09 : 10:32pm
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if it was actually hydrogen, it would of been a mini hindenburg, with small squeaky voices going "the humanity!"
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myarse [ban] | Dec 24 08 : 4:19am
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i was offered a job in a helium factory, but i didnt like how they spoke to me!
