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Even better, when the helium runs out, they're going to buy hydrogen balloons. Much safer. :-)
by phyzome 4y ago
Even better, when the helium runs out, they're going to buy hydrogen balloons. Much safer. :-)
- madaxe_again 4y agoHydrogen gets a bad rap. For the quantity that you’d have in a party balloon - even a dozen of them together - it’s safe, particularly as you aren’t going to have a stoichiometric mixture inside a balloon. If you managed to light one, you’d get a small implosion - much less than from a vacuum vessel. They’d also deflate more quickly, and wouldn’t travel anywhere near as far when inevitably released. You could even do instant balloons, which come pre-sealed and just require snapping a vessel within to generate hydrogen.
- BenjiWiebe 4y agoUh... They aren't quite as safe as you're implying. Hydrogen is really easy to light, and if one balloon goes the others in the bunch will 100% ignite too. You still get a pretty good amount of fire per balloon, just not an explosion.
- __MatrixMan__ 4y agoAs a former pyromaniac I can assure you that a party balloon filled with hydrogen (or a "Hindenburg Bomb" as we called them) is a pretty underwhelming thing. It goes up in a whoosh, not a bang , not a billowing ball of flame, and the screw-around factor just isn't there. Like, what to you do with it besides let it go whoosh? The only thing that's dangerous about them is how boring they are. You'll be graduating to more interesting forms of pyromancy (like trying to make a flame thrower out of a punching balloon) in no time.
- ordu 4y agoHydrogen balloon is being put on fire (and a balloon with 2:1 hydrogen-oxygen mixture): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_RKdWYqgu3Y https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_RKdWYqgu3Y