It’s a crazy, crazy world out there people, but things like these just make you go ‘Wow!’. Or at least they had that effect on me, and pretty much everybody I showed it to. The folks over at National Geographic recreated what every children dreamed of at least once: lifting up a house just with balloons – 300 of them, to be more exact.
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| Film: Up! - Carl attached the balloons to his house to fulfil his life-long dream of discovering the wild in South America |
Dozens of volunteers worked around the
clock in the Californain desert to get the custom-built house airborne
with the aid of 300 eight-foot-high helium balloons
The experiment was successful, with the whole experimental “aircraft”
being launched from Los Angeles and reaching an altitude of over 10.000
feet (!), in a flight that lasted over an hour. I’m absolutely thrilled
to see National Geographic starting up a program such as this, and
needless to say, we’ll keep you posted with the other “episodes” they
will be making; anybody care to guess what they will do next ?
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