u know...like yesterday after a birthday party we let go all the ballons at once. then i was wondering what happens to the balloons in space. does it burst? y? and what happens to the rubber pieces?
2007-04-19 07:04:22 · 8 answers · asked by sαrαн♥mıss ©υяlz 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Lost balloons pollute the environment and kill animals that try to eat them -- since the balloon is often made of indigestible latex that clogs the digestive systems of animals that try to eat the pretty balloons.
Like other people have said, either they rise until they burst (which means the pieces will fall to the Earth), or they float around until all of the helium leaks out and they fall to the ground.
Odds are that the balloon will fall into the sea, since most of the Earth's surface is water. Most balloons are eaten by sea turtles and fish that think that the rubber balloon is a jelly fish.
2007-04-19 07:44:02 · answer #1 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The balloon rises for the same reason you float in water - helium is lighter than air, and thus the balloon experiences buoyancy.
As the balloon rises, atmospheric pressure around it drops. This causes the gas inside the balloon to expand (note that the helium, at a given pressure, will still be lighter than air at a given pressure, so it will continue to rise). As the pressure drops further and further, the balloon expands more and more, until eventually the rubber is strained to the breaking point, and the balloon pops. The helium is released and the rubber pieces fall to the earth. The height at which the balloon pops is dependent on the strength of the rubber, but is probably no more than a mile or two up.
2007-04-19 07:17:57 · answer #2 · answered by astazangasta 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone had an experience of releasing a balloon into the sky, whether it was an accident or intentional. Once the balloon is released one wonders how high it can fly.
The Guinness Book of Records has recorded the highest toy balloon flight of a 1 foot radius. The record was set in September of 1987. Ian Ashpole of Britain is not afraid of dangerous stunts and therefore pulled off this one. He rose to a height of 3049.52 m in a hot-air balloon. A group of 400 helium-filled balloons were at the same altitude. Ian had attached himself to the group of balloons and descended by releasing them one by one.
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2007-04-19 08:03:13 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of two things. Either the balloon will rise, causing the helium to expand, eventually bursting the balloon.
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The weight of the balloon will be too great and it won't be able to rise high enough to burst, so it will float around until enough helium leaks out and the balloon falls to the ground.
2007-04-19 07:13:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it will eventually burst because the presure out side the balloon is less than the preasure inside causing the ballon to explode when it reaches the max limit, rubber pieces will fall to the ground
2007-04-19 07:12:51 · answer #5 · answered by CRAZYDEADMOTH 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The balloons don't go in space. They just float around in the air until they pop. Then the rubber pieces all land on the ground, and they kill little animals like fish and birds and squirrels by making them choke or plugging their intestines. You are a squirrel murderer!!!
2007-04-19 07:12:19 · answer #6 · answered by doubleoseven 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They finally end up interior the tree in my lower back backyard. heavily, we had a balloon land interior the tree in my lower back backyard. It develop into from an straightforward college in Mississippi and that's countless hundred miles far off from me.
2016-11-25 22:24:26 · answer #7 · answered by sawvell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They go up into the sky, and as they get higher, they lose pressure in them and come back down until they can get enough to float again. And they keep going like that until they either pop or run out of helium.
2007-04-19 07:12:12 · answer #8 · answered by Veronica 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋