Well, I guess they figured it’d take another 100 years to calculate that correctly, so they just winged it for the picture.
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MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 months ago
I love that the balloons are far too small. Like they didn’t understand the elements and buoyancy well enough to know the balloons have to be much larger. Not like we have negative mass particles.
sroos@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Noobnarski@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m pretty sure scientists back then could have told you that these balloons are too small. The person(s) who drew that picture most likely wasn’t a scientist, which is why it looks how it looks.
MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe they thought we’d have discovered/created new elements by now that could do this.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Half hydrogen! Or the rare molecule, puffy air.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, if we used a pure vacuum, you’d only get about 17% more efficiency than just using helium I think
I don’t know if they had helium when this was made tho, they might have been thinking more hot-air-balloon style
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I want to see how that cane works.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Superheated hydrogen in a monomolecular unbreakable balloon.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The theoretical best lift from a balloon that size is about 1 kg I would estimate
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 months ago
C-. You didn’t show your work.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, air weighs a little bit more than 1 kilogram per cubic meter, and those balloons look a little bit smaller than a cubic meter
superkret@feddit.org 2 months ago
What measure of scientic accuracy do you expect from a chocolate wrapper?
MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 months ago
I did not know this was on a candy wrapper…
That does make it better.
superkret@feddit.org 2 months ago
On the top left it says “Hildebrands German chocolate” and on one of the balloons it says “German cocoa”.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I like the fact that a horse and boat thing has the same size balloon as a person.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 months ago
That it they were positive the future would, uhm, find a way.
wizzor@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Obviously they were assuming balloons were filled with supervacuum. We have had 100 years and not invented even that.
Truly we have failed our ancestors.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 months ago
Super vacuum! That will do it.