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2. Balloon modelling - Wikipedia

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   A balloon artist in Vienna, Austria A street performer doing balloon modeling in Japan, 2022. Balloon modelling or balloon twisting is the shaping of special modelling balloons into various shapes, often balloon animals. People who create balloon animals and other twisted balloon decoration sculptures are called twisters, balloon benders, and ...

3. High-altitude balloon - Wikipedia

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   High-altitude balloons or stratostats are usually uncrewed balloons typically filled with helium or hydrogen and released into the stratosphere, generally attaining between 18 and 37 km (11 and 23 mi; 59,000 and 121,000 ft) above sea level. In 2013, a balloon named BS 13-08 reached a record altitude of 53.7 km (33.4 mi; 176,000 ft). [1]

4. Balloon - Wikipedia

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   Balloon rockets work because the elastic balloons contract on the air within them, and so when the mouth of the balloon is opened, the gas within the balloon is expelled out, and due to Newton's third law of motion, the balloon is propelled forward. This is the same way that a rocket works.

5. Hot air balloon lands on home after snagging on street light

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   Still stuck on the light pole, the balloon, fittingly donning a saguaro cactus amid its rainbow colors, appeared to slowly deflate before descending over Giugliano's yard and roof. "It's right ...

6. Inflatable - Wikipedia

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   A balloon is an inflatable flexible filled with air and also gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide or oxygen. Modern balloons can be made from materials such as latex rubber , polychloroprene , or a nylon fabric, while some early balloons were made of dried animal bladders [ citation needed ] .

7. Here's why meteorologists launch weather balloons every day

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   Synchronized weather balloon launches have helped meteorologists create forecasts over the past 150 years, and now the old tradition is going high tech. Twice a day - every day of the year ...

8. Lifting gas - Wikipedia

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   A balloon can only have buoyancy if there is a medium that has a higher average density than the balloon itself. Balloons cannot work on the Moon because it has almost no atmosphere. [14] Mars has a very thin atmosphere – the pressure is only 1 ⁄ 160 of earth atmospheric pressure – so a huge balloon would be needed even for a tiny lifting ...

9. Inflatable rat - Wikipedia

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   The inflatable rats all originated from one American manufacturor, a company called Big Sky, who produced hot air balloons and standalone inflatables. It was commissioned by Lambert and designed by one of the co-owners, who Lambert asked to make the design to be "'meaner looking,' with big claws and 'festering nipples,'" with "menacing" fingers ...