• @[email protected]
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    311 month ago

    I didn’t understand any of that.

    What is a wet specimen? Wouldn’t it take a bunch of balloons to float roadkill?

    Why is a wet specimen and flying roadkill similar?

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      1 month ago

      A normal-size balloon of helium can lift about 10 grams. Hares can be about 4 kilograms. Totally doable but that’s a lot of time, balloons and helium to just waste!

      Anyway, here are some more species and approximate adult weight when alive:

      • Bug (windshield): 0.1 g
      • Frog: 20 g
      • Mouse: 20 g
      • Snail: 25 g
      • Hedgehog: 600 g
      • Rabbit: 1 kg
      • Cat: 4 kg
      • Moose: 600 kg
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          11 month ago

          Probably not, the cluster of balloons would be so big you’d need a considerable amount of string, and at some point the overhead will be so big that each balloon will add more weight than lift.

          Still, a moose is probably possible, just with more balloons.

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            11 month ago

            Or you attach the balloons to each other

            Or, better yet, one BIG balloon!!!

            …what do you mean this already exists

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              1 month ago

              You can’t infinitely chain balloons because the string has limited tensile strength. There indeed is a limit but it’s pretty high, especially if you use a fishing line.

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          1 month ago

          That’s why I’m listing the live weight. A dried-up rabbit carcass partially eaten by a fox will of course weigh less by a highly variable fraction, whose estimate I’m leaving up to you.

    • stebo
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      71 month ago

      I’ll do you one better: what’s roadkill?

    • celeste
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      211 month ago

      a wet specimen is a dead creature preserved in liquid