stackyFACTSHelium is wildly expensive, so someone brilliantly decided to just staple a blimp's shape onto a standard hot air balloon system. It results in a highly sluggish, ungodly massive sausage that looks imposing but handles like a drunken whale.
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It takes an absolutely comical amount of lighter-than-air gas to keep these slow-moving billboards in the sky. If you somehow captured all the helium inside…
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Peeking through a metal tube is out, staring at high definition monitors while submerged is in. Traditional optical periscopes required a massive physical…
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Thanks to Hollywood, we assume blimps erupt in spectacular fireballs at the slightest provocation. In reality, the internal pressure of a modern helium…
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