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Posted on 03-07-11 01:55:13 PM (last edited by Orlandu at 03-07-11 10:55 AM) Link | Quote
The House From Up! Now Exists In Real Life—and It Flies!

Originally posted by Gizmodo.com
Sure, the 16 by 16 feet house is not a full house, but I don't care. It flies for real, thanks to three hundred weather balloons full of helium. The Up! house—which will be part of a new National Geographic TV series called How Hard Can It Be?—was 10 stories high, including the balloons. It reached 10,000 feet and flew for about one hour.




Pretty cool to see a bunch of experts having fun designing and flying something from an animated movie! It reminds you that everyone is a kid at heart.

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Posted on 03-08-11 03:39:23 PM Link | Quote
Cool. It doesn't really count unless someone is actually inside it, though.

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Posted on 03-08-11 03:41:49 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Sofi
Cool. It doesn't really count unless someone is actually inside it, though.


Just wait, one day someone will make it happen. This was only a test!

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Posted on 03-08-11 04:41:06 PM Link | Quote


They messed up. Everyone knows that there were more ballons than that in the movie!

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Posted on 03-08-11 04:48:28 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by CB
They messed up. Everyone knows that there were more ballons than that in the movie!

Lets see you do better

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Posted on 03-08-11 04:55:31 PM Link | Quote


Originally posted by Orlandu
Originally posted by CB
They messed up. Everyone knows that there were more ballons than that in the movie!

Lets see you do better


I could at least get the number of ballons right...


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Posted on 03-08-11 04:59:27 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by CB
I could at least get the number of ballons right...

Cause you're a ballooning expert and know lift capacity of each balloon...

Anyway, where's the video.

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Posted on 03-09-11 01:02:55 AM Link | Quote
Man, I would not have liked being under that if the balloons all popped or something...
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Posted on 03-09-11 03:18:42 PM (last edited by PYRATROOPER at 03-09-11 12:18 PM) Link | Quote
I would use that house for skydiving, lol.

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Posted on 03-09-11 10:16:24 PM Link | Quote


Originally posted by PYRATROOPER
I would use that house for skydiving, lol.


...then who would fly it?

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Posted on 03-10-11 12:21:48 AM Link | Quote
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Originally posted by PYRATROOPER
I would use that house for skydiving, lol.


...then who would fly it?



That is the point I would use the Balloons to get there then jettison them and have a parachutes on the house like the Apollo space capsules. Also the skydiving was an emergency feature in case of the balloons popping.

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Rocket thrusters would be cool. Or jets.

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