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[–] [email protected] 78 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It will come down on its own eventually.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 months ago

This is the information that guy is selling for $1000 πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Now I'm wondering how long it would take

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is designed like a hot air balloon, but it appears to have a sealed balloon. This is probably a helium balloon, which means you're going to have to wait for the helium to leak out.

Based on the art, I'd say it would last about as long as a normal latex filled helium balloon (it's bigger, so there's more in it, but also more surface area) so probably would take a day or two before it deflates enough to drop.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Remember that volume increases cubically whilst surface area increases exponentially (i think)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Volume is cubic (r^3) and surface area is quadratic (r^2)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Your formatting didn't come out right.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cloud services. (They lock you in, I know. )

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

AWS and GCP in a nutshell

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Good luck with getting him to pay from 50 meters up in the air

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Phones still work from 50~~ft~~ metres in the air....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Good luck exchanging information ^over the distance I specified^

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh, also, I am sure a balloon costs more than 1000$, so I am stealing that, lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. Through what mechanism will you steal a balloon that will stay aloft for a couple of days, has no mechanism of altitude control once you remove the rope, and will likely expel you at the first sign of any wind, assuming you don't die of hypothermia or hypoxia first?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Well, worst case scenario I die and he gets jail time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The fact that I can't immediately think of a reason this would be illegal scares me

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you refused to land this would be extortion I believe, but I'm no lawyer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

So why aren't loot boxes extortion then? I immediately thought of EA.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

cutting the rope and drifting can save you a grand

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

A smart businessman would make sure to tell them they need to leave anything pointy on the ground.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

a smarter man keeps his edge

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's ok guns aren't sharp :^)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Climbing down the rope would do the job as well, considering it’s latched to the rim of the basket. Probably be fairly easy, too. Wrap shirt around hands, clamp feet to rope (one above the other so the rope rests between your shoes, which then functions as a brake to slow your slide), and slide down.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Jump out of spite.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Good luck collecting the money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Just do the scam on crypto bros only

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Climb down the line, balloon still up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Kind of like with Boeing and those poor astronauts stuck on the space station

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Didn’t read the Terms and Conditions. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I would just wait until he went to sleep and then slide down the rope.