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🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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0:00.0 | Okay, hey Nate. Hey Taylor, so I've got a science riddle for you. Okay? A child is having a birthday party and is given a balloon on a string. |
0:17.5 | Everything's fine until, as often happens, for a split second the child gets distracted |
0:20.4 | and he lets it go outside. |
0:22.1 | Uh-oh. |
0:23.0 | Everybody looks up as it floats away into the big blue sky. |
0:27.0 | What happens to the balloon? |
0:30.0 | Many things could happen to the balloon. |
0:32.0 | The balloon key caught in some sort of electrical wire. Many things could happen to the balloon. |
0:32.5 | The balloon key caught in some sort of electrical wire. |
0:35.0 | Let's say it doesn't hit a wire and it doesn't hit a plane or a flock of birds. |
0:42.1 | I think eventually it probably hits some sort of atmospheric pressure |
0:48.1 | to where the balloon, the skin of the balloon |
0:50.9 | just can't handle it and it pumps. |
0:53.0 | And then what? |
0:56.0 | Well then, yeah, then the plastic falls back down to Earth. |
1:00.0 | But what happens to the helium? |
1:02.0 | It stays in the helium? |
1:02.8 | It stays in the atmosphere? |
1:06.4 | This is a crappy riddle, by the way. |
1:08.4 | It's a science riddle. |
1:10.2 | Those are just questions. |
1:11.4 | Those aren't riddles. Those are just questions. Those aren't riddles. Those are just questions. |
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