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  2. California Balloon Law - Wikipedia

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    Do not use metallic ribbon with helium-filled balloons; Although the law was put into effect in 1990, the issue of foil balloons being a hazard resurfaced in 2008. A senate bill was proposed to ban the sale of all foil balloons by the year 2010 due to the increased number of power outages. [citation needed] The bill was California Senate Bill 1499.

  3. Mylar balloon (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Perhaps counterintuitively, the surface area of the inflated balloon is less than the surface area of the circular sheets. This is due to physical crimping of the surface, which increases near the rim. "Mylar balloon" is the name for the figure given by W. Paulson, who first investigated the shape. The term was subsequently adopted by other ...

  4. List of ballooning accidents - Wikipedia

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    Balloon struck cables of a TV tower, causing it to plummet to the ground. [32] 3 0 21 June 1989: Dairy Queen balloon crash Calgary, Alberta, Canada Balloon struck power line and caught fire. Pilot jumped from balloon and died on the ground. [33] 1 0 13 August 1989: 1989 Alice Springs hot air balloon crash: Near Alice Springs, Australia

  5. 8-year-old girl suffocated to death by Mylar balloon sparks ...

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    KOIN reports that an 8-year-old girl from Portland, Oregon tragically died after being suffocated by a mylar balloon -- a decoration from her own birthday party.

  6. Balloon hits a New Orleans power line and triggers boil water ...

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    A boil water advisory is in place for the East Bank of New Orleans and Algiers Point after a foil balloon hit a power line and briefly caused an outage at a water treatment plant.

  7. Loon LLC - Wikipedia

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    A Loon balloon at the Christchurch launch event in June 2013. Loon LLC was an Alphabet Inc. subsidiary working on providing Internet access to rural and remote areas. The company used high-altitude balloons in the stratosphere at an altitude of 18 km (11 mi) to 25 km (16 mi) to create an aerial wireless network with up to 1 Mbit/s speeds.

  8. 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.

  9. 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]

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