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Free Balloon Rides (lemmy.world)

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[-] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Kind of like with Boeing and those poor astronauts stuck on the space station

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 78 points 1 week ago

It will come down on its own eventually.

[-] Venat0r@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago

This is the information that guy is selling for $1000 😂

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Now I'm wondering how long it would take

[-] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

It is designed like a hot air balloon, but it appears to have a sealed balloon. This is probably a helium balloon, which means you're going to have to wait for the helium to leak out.

Based on the art, I'd say it would last about as long as a normal latex filled helium balloon (it's bigger, so there's more in it, but also more surface area) so probably would take a day or two before it deflates enough to drop.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

Remember that volume increases cubically whilst surface area increases exponentially (i think)

[-] Omniforous@mander.xyz 18 points 1 week ago

Volume is cubic (r^3) and surface area is quadratic (r^2)

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Your formatting didn't come out right.

[-] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 68 points 1 week ago

Cloud services. (They lock you in, I know. )

[-] desertdruid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

AWS and GCP in a nutshell

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 36 points 1 week ago

Good luck with getting him to pay from 50 meters up in the air

[-] el_abuelo@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Phones still work from 50~~ft~~ metres in the air....

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

Good luck exchanging information ^over the distance I specified^

[-] el_abuelo@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago
[-] derpgon@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

Oh, also, I am sure a balloon costs more than 1000$, so I am stealing that, lol.

[-] el_abuelo@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

Interesting. Through what mechanism will you steal a balloon that will stay aloft for a couple of days, has no mechanism of altitude control once you remove the rope, and will likely expel you at the first sign of any wind, assuming you don't die of hypothermia or hypoxia first?

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

Well, worst case scenario I die and he gets jail time.

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

I have been in a hot air balloon. You might Think there is some way to maneuver it.

If so, you’re wrong.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago

Just use the steering wheel

[-] basmati@lemmus.org 8 points 1 week ago

You can, you just kinda hope to not hit a thermal or strong winds. You have weighted balasts on all sides of the basket, by changing the weight distribution you can influence the direction of the floating. Influence, not fully control; iirc as long as wind is less than 5mph opposed to the direction you want to go, you'll be able to pick up speed in that direction.

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world -3 points 6 days ago

A plane can be maneuvered. If the wind blows and you’re completely powerless because of it, you’re not maneuvering shit. A hot air balloon cannot be steered, is what I’m saying.

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

The fact that I can't immediately think of a reason this would be illegal scares me

[-] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

If you refused to land this would be extortion I believe, but I'm no lawyer

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

So why aren't loot boxes extortion then? I immediately thought of EA.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

cutting the rope and drifting can save you a grand

[-] realitista@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

A smart businessman would make sure to tell them they need to leave anything pointy on the ground.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

a smarter man keeps his edge

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's ok guns aren't sharp :^)

[-] IMongoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[-] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Climbing down the rope would do the job as well, considering it’s latched to the rim of the basket. Probably be fairly easy, too. Wrap shirt around hands, clamp feet to rope (one above the other so the rope rests between your shoes, which then functions as a brake to slow your slide), and slide down.

[-] nl4real@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Jump out of spite.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Good luck collecting the money.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Just do the scam on crypto bros only

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Climb down the line, balloon still up.

[-] CustardFist@feddit.nl 4 points 1 week ago

Didn’t read the Terms and Conditions. 🤷‍♂️

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I would just wait until he went to sleep and then slide down the rope.

this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2024
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