What would happen if you took a party balloon to space?
Moment Of Um
Brains On Universe
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Have you ever accidentally let go of a helium balloon and watched it float up … up … and away? It drifts way up in the sky until it’s just a tiny speck! But what would happen if a balloon made it all the way to outer space? We asked astrophysicist Amanda Farah to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:04.0 | Moment of um. |
| 0:07.0 | Moment of um comes to you from APM Studios. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Kevin, a party balloon with big dreams. |
| 0:18.0 | It's not a bad life being a party balloon. I make people happy. I've got bright colors and a shiny ribbon. I'm full of helium and boy can I float. But sometimes I wonder if there's more out there. |
| 0:37.3 | Think of all the amazing things I could see if I could just float around the world or even go to outer space. |
| 0:47.0 | Up in space, there's a world that I'd love to see. I could float through a beautiful |
| 0:58.1 | galaxy up past Saturn's rings. There are so many cool things. |
| 1:04.0 | Up in space, I could be like a satellite, |
| 1:10.0 | orbit a nebula at the speed of light down with gravity space is the place for me. |
| 1:19.1 | You know every so often I hear stories about brave balloons escaping their strings and flying to who knows where. |
| 1:26.5 | But it's so far away. |
| 1:28.5 | What would happen if a balloon like me went there? |
| 1:31.5 | Wesley and Quinn were just asking the same thing. |
| 1:35.0 | Hi, I'm Wesley. |
| 1:37.0 | Hi, I'm Quinn. |
| 1:39.0 | And we're wondering what happens if you take a party wound to space? |
| 1:43.0 | Space is a lot less dense than Earth. |
| 1:49.0 | That means that there's just like less stuff packed into more space. |
| 1:53.0 | I'm Amanda Fara. |
| 1:54.8 | I'm a PhD student at the University of Chicago, |
| 1:58.5 | but I study what's called gravitational wave astrophysics. |
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