Posted: 5/4/2008 9:34:43 PM EDT
Screw MS Paint. Old school Bic and white paper FTW! For your late night entertainment I have come up with a hypothetical question for Arfcom. How many helium filled foil metallic balloons does it take to elevate a 15 pound cat? Given: Cat - 15 Pounds balloon tie down harness - 1\2 pound Balloons - 18" round foil metallic birthday\mitzvahs balloons |
Or at least studying to become one. Those flip flops bring back some bad memories | Well as I recall from my eons ago days in Physics we used to discuss PointCats of Static Electricity. In other words how many times would you have to rub the back of a cat on a nylon carpet before you could hold it up and stick it to the ceiling like a charged balloon? |
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according to this: www.cockeyed.com/science/helium/helium.shtml A single latex party balloon can lift about 7.4 grams. 15 lbs is about 6804 grams, so it would take about 932 latex party balloons to lift a 15 lb cat, exclusive of the cat harness. This seems high to me. I suspect small party balloons are not efficient on a weight per volume basis. The experiment referenced is also vulnerable to small errors. For example, if a party balloon can actually lift 8.5 grams the number of balloons is reduced to 800, and at 10 grams it is down to 680. All that is easily within the measurement error. |
Use weather balloons. 
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No treadmill at this time. Perhaps on a future problem.
~Engineer. The J\K flip flops haunt me now. I can't imagine what they will do in the future. 
There is no "between". I am always looking to incoperate new knowledge to test on kitty 
Very observant! |
