How Hot Air Balloons Work

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Arguably the most beautiful objects in the entire world, hot air balloons take advantage of some interesting physics and have a long history of killing their occupants. Find out more.

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0:52.1	But you know what I was disappointed to learn today.
0:55.5	I've never read it, but around the world in 80 days, apparently it wasn't like a balloon
1:00.0	race.
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1:03.0	Like this balloon on the cover of the VHS cassette tape.
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1:19.1	So it was like trains and other modes of chips and other modes of transportation.
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