Balloons Lift facts
While investigating facts about Balloons Lifting A Person and Balloons Lifting Dog, I found out little known, but curios details like:
It would take 260,000,000,000 balloons to lift The Pentagon
how many balloons to lift a person?
It would take roughly 10,000 normal balloons to lift up a 70kg human
What causes lift in hot air balloons?
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what causes helium balloons to lose their lift?
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On 1982, underestimating helium's lifting power, Larry Walters attached 45 helium-filled weather balloons to a chair to fly it and rose to 4600 m near Los Angeles International Airport, before shooting ballons and landing in power lines
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Air is a lifting gas on Venus, so you could put a whole city in a balloon and it would float in its atmosphere
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It would take approximately 4,000 helium balloons to lift the average human.
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About the "vacuum balloon" which is theoretically the most efficient method to achieve lift from displacement, about 14% better than helium
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It would take around 4,800 helium-filled balloons to lift a person weighing 132 lbs (60kg) off the ground.
