“Moonwalk”

[notjenschiz]

Originally published at Jason's Fresh Produce. You can comment here or there.

I just had a sweet idea.

You’ve seen cartoony representations of people filling up helium balloons and floating away.

There’s even the priest who attached a bunch of weather balloons to a  lawn chair and got himself killed.

But how much would it really take to just, say,

Comments

[ian_tiberius]

I had this same thought when I was taking physics in high school, so I did the math. As I recall, what I discovered was that with helium, the volume required would be absolutely tremendous. With hydrogen it was vaguely plausible, but you still have the problem that you can't really "bound around" because you suddenly have a crapload of air resistance from all those balloons. You could "bound" up and down, I guess. You'd probably get a lot more joy out of indoor skydiving...

[notjenschiz]

maybe reverse bungy would be better

[swmartin]

Refloor your home with trampolines!