Where do balloons end up after you let them go into the sky?

Answer 1

they often choke sea animals like turtles and birds.

i live along the shore and there are always balloons and ribbons washed up onshore.

Answer 2

Many times balloons lose their buoyancy because the tiny helium atoms escape through the knot [no matter how tight] and through the balloon's ever thinning, expanding rubber membrane while ascending. When the thin air's density equals that of the helium inside the expanded balloon, equilibrium is reached and it's height oscillates within this height region.
The pressure in the elastic balloon will be somewhat greater in reality because of the nature of an expanded elastic sphere surrounding a finite amount of helium gas.
Helium atoms will still migrate out while the outside, much larger atmospheric atoms can hardly get in. Thus the balloon's size starts to reduce, resulting in loss of buoyancy and it starts to sink. While descending, the atmosphere crushes down it's size even further making it even less buoyant. It thus falls faster and faster in a relationship that has to do with buoyancy, air friction and gravity of course. This all applies to balloons that don't pop. i.e. Very expandable rubber and weather balloons.

If it is one of those non-elastic foil birthday balloons, it will expand while rising, a seam will likely fail, the helium will escape and it would simply fall.

Answer 3

When balloons are first blown up, they have the same pressure as of the surroundings. However, as the balloons go very high, the outside air pressure lowers, and the higher pressure in the balloon causes it to pop, due to the loss of equilibrium.

Answer 4

Balloons the size of a beach ball ends up being in the Ocean.why?

the gravity of the Earth repels the presurized balloon up into the sky.
while the cinteric atmoshpere caries the ballon down its weight and looses its gas inside of the balloon making it fall. down to the ocean.

odds of it falling to the ocean are 98/100

Answer 5

Up, up, up.
Until they hit something hard enough or they go so high up that the pressure of the atmosphere pop the balloon.

Answer 6

It depends. Some go so high that they pop. Others are very lucky and fly to another part of the world till their helium runs out. The really lucky ones don't land in the ocean.

Answer 7

They eventually freeze and pop or they float around until all fo the helium leaks out of them. Sad but true, they end up on the ground or in the ocean.

Answer 8

Sometimes they get caught in trees or wires or things like that. Most times they just float with the wind until enough air escape from them and they fall back to earth or into rivers, seas, or ponds, etc...

Answer 9

Eventually the pressure gets so high they pop. And I guess the pieces just float back down to earth.

Answer 10

They end up popping from the pressure level and falling back on the ground.