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Old Jan 13, 2008 | 11:07 AM
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http://www.snabbstart.com/film/f4010ee4fa
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Old Jan 13, 2008 | 11:12 AM
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Old Jan 13, 2008 | 11:14 AM
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Old Jan 13, 2008 | 11:21 AM
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but the car starts to float away ?
Old Jan 13, 2008 | 12:24 PM
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completely fake. The mythbusters have done things like this -- it takes an INCREDIBLE amount of helium to lift really anything. That amount of baloons simply isn't going to do it.
Old Jan 13, 2008 | 12:33 PM
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Definitely fake. Like the poster above said, it takes an incredible amount of balloons to lift something. On mythbusters it took like 10,000 balloons just to lift a 50lb girl.
Old Jan 13, 2008 | 12:39 PM
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yeah i remember that episode lol more than 10,000 balloons and a couple days to fill all the balloons and it didnt even really take her away like that it just kind of levitated her.
Old Jan 13, 2008 | 01:21 PM
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For small spherical helium balloon sizes:

Dia. inches 22
Vol. Liters 91.37
Lift/gr 93.77
Lift/lbs 0.2067



so if the car weighted only 2000lbs it would take 10000 22" diameter ballons to lift the car.
Old Jan 13, 2008 | 02:00 PM
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fake, locked.
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