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MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• wizzor@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Super vacuum! That will do it.

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• sroos@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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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• Noobnarski@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe they thought we’d have discovered/created new elements by now that could do this.

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Half hydrogen! Or the rare molecule, puffy air.

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    • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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

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• chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I want to see how that cane works.

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• Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Superheated hydrogen in a monomolecular unbreakable balloon.

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  • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The theoretical best lift from a balloon that size is about 1 kg I would estimate

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    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      C-. You didn’t show your work.

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      • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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

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• superkret@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What measure of scientic accuracy do you expect from a chocolate wrapper?

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  • MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I did not know this was on a candy wrapper…

    That does make it better.

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    • superkret@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      On the top left it says “Hildebrands German chocolate” and on one of the balloons it says “German cocoa”.

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• SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I like the fact that a horse and boat thing has the same size balloon as a person.

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• Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That it they were positive the future would, uhm, find a way.

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