jua! absolutely hilarious fail. You can see it coming... and 100 points!

Is that some kind of recreation or something? Looks like an iron cross on that thing. Also, helium isn't flammable, and based on the boom, they're using...methane?

Yeah, helium isn't flammable. My first thought was hydrogen but what do I know?

Looked more like an electrical explosion. Dont cross the streams man.

>> ^Fusionaut:

Yeah, helium isn't flammable. My first thought was hydrogen but what do I know?


Hydrogen is the only gas that's enough lighter than air to lift a balloon which burns.

Is it Helium or Hydrogen?

Looked to me like the balloon itself, the paper-like material, was the thing that caught fire. And the explosion was caused by contact with the power transformer. Therefore, it probably was helium.

I agree. A hydrogen balloon would have exploded almost instantly once catching fire. Here the boom doesn't come until the balloon is nearly gone and is likely an electrical explosion.
>> ^shuac:

Looked to me like the balloon itself, the paper-like material, was the thing that caught fire. And the explosion was caused by contact with the power transformer. Therefore, it probably was helium.

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