What Happens If Everyone Lets Go of a Balloon at Once?

Everyone's balloons could almost lift an aircraft carrier. Then they come back down. 🎈 Sources: • Balloon lift (11-inch latex, ~10 g net): NIST helium density https://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/fluid.cgi?ID=C7440597&Action=Page and balloon-weight tables https://www.balloon-decoration-guide.com/balloon-weight-for-5-helium-balloons.html • U.S. Navy, aircraft carriers fact file (displacement): https://www.navy.mil/Resources/Fact-Files/Display-FactFiles/Article/2169795/aircraft-carriers-cvn/ • UN World Population Prospects 2024: https://population.un.org/wpp/ • Guinness Book of World Records 1988 (1,429,643 balloons, Cleveland 1986): https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.115614 • Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Balloonfest: https://case.edu/ech/articles/b/balloonfest • The Plain Dealer / cleveland.com (2023), Balloonfest letter from the editor: https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/06/where-truth-ends-and-fake-news-begins-on-clevelands-1986-balloonfest-letter-from-the-editor.html Video: 3D animation by FunNotSoFun, not real footage, not to scale. #shorts #funfact #notsofunfact #facts #balloons #balloonfest #cleveland #whatifstories