Out of helium? Forgot to pick up the tank? Don't worry, this video shows you two different ways that you can make your balloons float without using helium! And better yet, these methods use things you likely have around the house, so no added cost!
Yes, you can make a balloon bouquet without helium. However, it's important to note that balloons filled with air won't float, so you need to arrange them in a different way. You canattach them to a balloon stickor create aballoon topiary tree, for example. This method is a great al...
3: Helium Disguised as Hydrogen Even helium, friend to balloons everywhere, is capable of donning disguises. ©iStockphoto.com/serts Atoms don't have brains, so it's strange to think of one atom getting tricked by another. And yet that's exactly what scientists at the University of...
Someone found that the term aeronaut, referring to those who ride in balloons and other lighter-than-air vehicles, was derived from "sailor in the air." From this we arrived at astronaut, meaning "sailor among the stars." The Soviet space agency came up with a similar term -- cosmonaut ...
I'm making a large link-a-loon helium filled arch. It's about 16 feet wide and almost as tall. Does it need the small quad balloons in between each link or will it be fine without the quads? ANSWER The link-o-loon arch will be fine without the quads. I've uploaded an image tha...
balloons and cone-shaped baskets. In 1962, the Swedish-born sculptor Claes Oldenburg displayed a Pop-art version of a "Store" filled with everyday objects that were greatly oversized and made of foam rubber covered with canvas. Oldenburg chose an enormous ice cream cone to represent American ...
Returning to Helium balloonsThe Helium in the child’s balloon has mass, but Helium is significantly less dense than the air surrounding it (less mass for the same volume). The Helium in the balloon is displacing the heavier air. This causes an upwards force equal to the volume of balloon...
One of the things we always work into our party budget is a DIY helium balloon kit. One kit is enough for 50 balloons. You only need enough to lift the balloon off the ground (you don’t want the invites to go flying off into space). There are a couple ...
electrical interference from Earth and perfectly clear skies without the slightest wisp of atmosphere to distort observations. These lunar scopes might even allow us to tune in to signals from E.T., explore for water ice, or dig up helium-3 to help solve the world’s endemic fossil-fuel ...
This initiative is part of Google’s Project Loon, which aims to provide cheap or free internet connectivity to people in remote rural areas around the world via a fleet of helium-filled balloons floating way up in the stratosphere. For Sri Lanka, Google’s plan is to have a network o...