Re: Dumnest question about the weather balloon...

On Oct 15, 1:33 pm, Mercellus Bohren <mercell...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 15, 3:24 pm, rastafarians2...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:





On Oct 15, 1:02 pm, Mercellus Bohren <mercell...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Oct 15, 2:54 pm, "The Cheesehusker, Trade Warrior"

<iamtj4l...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 15, 2:50 pm, Jim Brown <jimbrown...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"How in the world would you open the door to climb in the balloon
without letting all the helium out?"

Hope the kid is hiding under the bed.

I'd assume there's some sort of gondola - or at least that the riding
area's at the bottom - and since helium's "lighter than air", it won't
escape - much.

huh?

It acts exactly the opposite of how you would expect air to act.

yeah, thanks. I used to live in a place where they would mix helium
with oxygen, because it was easier for the people that couldn't
breath, to get oxygen into the lungs and CO2 out of the lungs. That
was a pretty ingenious, and low-tech way to keep those critical asthma
kids alive. Helped that it made everyone talk phuny.

Did you ever get them to sing: "Weee represent the Lollipop Guild..."?

.

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