please use hydrogen and not helium if you do this.
Helium is a precious, essential, non-renewable resource that the world is actually running out of.
Now I'm just imagining them coming back down, combusting, and people thinking the war of Armageddon has begun.
That's something I find funny. The second most abundant element in the universe and we're running out of our supply.
It's not a laughing matter. The world used to be He He He He He He He but soon there'll be no more He He He.
Because we don't have spaceships to go out into the universe to collect it, so all we have is what has been trapped in deposits underground.
and a lot of it has been wasted on stupid shit like party balloons, and the overwhelming majority of the population does not understand how critically important helium is to manufacturing and medicine.
@state_electrician @Dubious_Fart, the most abundant element in the universe, not renevable, is human stupidity
Scarcity smarcity - do it so you can attach tiny timed fireworks to them, at the feet so they float upright and then EXPLODE at like 1000 feet
Just release them far away from any power lines
Eh? Can't we just pull it from the air?
No, its literally lighter than air. it floats out into space, and it is not in a dense enough concentration where its possible to reharvest anyway.
No, there's not enough in the atmosphere
Given the type of people that we are targeting here I think that helium blow-up dolls are are a bit of a waste, especially considering the scale that we would need to perform this on to actually make it somewhat believable. Better would be to use hydrogen, its soo much cheaper than helium, has better lift, and is not a limited resource. Along with that a custom order of human shaped and roughly human colored (with painted on clothes patterns) balloons would work better. Likely a lot cheaper if done at larger scales, blow up dolls are made of tougher material than your average balloon. This would also allow for the pursuit of more sustainable materials given that we are just sort of releasing this stuff into the sky.
There is also a matter of making it realistic. If we are limiting to maybe one city then its best to create some devices that automatically release them on timed schedules. load these up with a handful of people balloons each and let them release with increasing frequency throughout the day. Should be a bit more convincing and gets a bigger effect. For cleanup we already filled these guys with hydrogen, so why not just light them up. might make for a good effect and leave less waste to be examined, making it more difficult to prove that this is not a rapture event.
You got it all tought out beforehand didn't you?
Dude was waiting for this moment a long time!
Sounds like a plan. I'm in
That bottom left picture is from the TV show "Six Feet Under." In the scene the helium filled blowup dolls get loos from the net holding them down. A woman sees the dolls flying by and assumes the rapture is happening. She runs out into the street yelling, "Take me Jesus!" And then gets hit by a car and dies.
That one has to be my favorite death scene of the whole series. That show was sooo good...
May god raputure them right into the power lines.
Wrap them in tinfoil for maximum radar cross-section
Ahhh, the ole Six Feet Under cold opening.
Was gonna say!!!!
It my mom saw that she would lose her shit.
And go out in the middle of the night before and leave piles of clothes all over town
Omg, I'm dying at this image
That already happened back in 2011 if I'm not mistaken
