Re: Where to toy balloons go?

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From: Russell A. Hatfield
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 07:15

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In article <1994Jan26.122350.67750@ucl.ac.uk>
zcapk43@ucl.ac.uk (Peter Newman) writes:
>inside, so there is no reason it wouldn't reach orbit!
>
>Or is there?  And if they _do_ make orbit (or beyond), how long would they
>last?

It would burst before it could even come close to orbit... the higher
you go, the less pressure on the outside of the ballon, causing it to burst.

Have you ever seen the expierement where they place a ballon into a glass
container and remove all the air from the container?  The ballon expands
until it completly fills it.  Same reason that the marshmellows expand
on those stupid food vacume packing machine commercials :)

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