Beautiful! Amazing! aaaaannnd... I hope there isn't a forest nearby.

... so, when do they explode?

I think people think they just go up into the sky and disappear. While I can see that it's an incredible visual spectacle, all of those things are going to come down somewhere and cause such a massive mess. It's just pretty littering, and just as wrong as ugly littering.

>> ^robbersdog49:

I think people think they just go up into the sky and disappear. While I can see that it's an incredible visual spectacle, all of those things are going to come down somewhere and cause such a massive mess. It's just pretty littering, and just as wrong as ugly littering.


Yeah, I kept thinking the same thing. What goes up, must come down. And someone is gonna have to clean it up.

A chemistry teacher I once had supposedly used to do this with Sterno canned heat and dry cleaning bags. I guess they're quite the spectacle and have led to UFO reports before; the transparent bags glow purple and can make it to the stratosphere if they don't fall on a house and burn it down first.

It's illegal according to FAA:

§ 101.7 Hazardous operations.

(a) No person may operate any moored balloon, kite, amateur rocket, or unmanned free balloon in a manner that creates a hazard to other persons, or their property.

(b) No person operating any moored balloon, kite, amateur rocket, or unmanned free balloon may allow an object to be dropped therefrom, if such action creates a hazard to other persons or their property.

>> ^Opus_Moderandi:
Yeah, I kept thinking the same thing. What goes up, must come down. And someone is gonna have to clean it up.

Traditionally this is done in China so, no, nobody has to clean it up.

I took a look online, and at least some of the sky lanterns on the market claim to be fully biodegradable. Hopefully these are.

>> ^robbersdog49:

I think people think they just go up into the sky and disappear. While I can see that it's an incredible visual spectacle, all of those things are going to come down somewhere and cause such a massive mess. It's just pretty littering, and just as wrong as ugly littering.


Sorry, Littering is only a first world problem.

First thought : oooo pretty!
Second, third, fourth thoughts : fire hazard, fire hazard, fire hazard!

Still pretty though.

Who needs cows anyway: www.defra.gov.uk/news/2011/06/19/sky-lanterns/

Thanks for polluting the earth, faggots! Fuck you!

>> ^ForgedReality:

Thanks for polluting the earth, faggots! Fuck you!


Yeah! With all your candle wax and rice paper!!!