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Parties would be more interesting if the balloons were filled with hydrogen gas anyway.


Reminds me of a demo my college physics professor did in our first class (presumably to get our attention).

He had two floating balloons, one about twice as big as the other. Pointed a blowtorch at the smaller one and it (of course) popped.

"That one was filled with helium. Now, there's only one gas less dense than helium..." and right as I thought to myself "he's not gonna do what I think he's gonna do", he pointed the blowtorch at the other balloon which exploded into a much larger (and much louder) fireball.

Attention captured, for sure.




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