There is another high probability possibility. It could be a tea light powered hot air balloon. You suspend a tea light under a lightweight plastic bag. The candle heats the air in the bag and it floats off across the sky. They look pretty freaky if you haven’t run across them before Especially at night. If the bag got hit by a sudden gust, it might twist into that shape and start to fall. Don’t see them very often due to the fire hazard.
Another possibility might be a custom hobby r/c craft of some sort. That’s all the reasonable ideas I’ve got.
I think you may be thinking a little too large a hot air balloon. Think grocery bag sized. As for not taking the risk, have you ever met a kid, or more likely in this case, teen, that thinks through the consequences of their actions.
And it is a very cool science trick. I could see a kid doing something like that, pretty easily.
That would make sense, but AGAIN somehow it cant be. You see the kids in South Greene aren’t exactly that interested in science I know I saw their scores in science they genuinely aren’t trying. I mean its not even that hard when I was in 7th grade math I got all As, and the high schoolers oh boy. They’re very street smart but ask then a basic science question and they are dumb as bricks
Middle aged me calls it a science trick and understands at a basic level how it works. 8 year old me would have said “Hey man! Hey man! Hey man! Check this out!” not having a clue how it worked, but it’s cool because it involves fire and magic. And promptly proceeding to set the town on fire.
Ditto potato guns, soda bottle launchers (top half a soda bottle, a coffee cup, a little water and a firecracker), Mentos granades (coke and mentos), flamethrowers (just hairspray and a lighter), vacuum cannons and other things that burned, went boom or did something else exciting.
Give the kids a break, they may not be able to communicate their understanding in standard language, but they understand far more than they, and their test scores, realize.
There is another high probability possibility. It could be a tea light powered hot air balloon. You suspend a tea light under a lightweight plastic bag. The candle heats the air in the bag and it floats off across the sky. They look pretty freaky if you haven’t run across them before Especially at night. If the bag got hit by a sudden gust, it might twist into that shape and start to fall. Don’t see them very often due to the fire hazard.
Another possibility might be a custom hobby r/c craft of some sort. That’s all the reasonable ideas I’ve got.
Probably isn’t, we dont have very many hot air balloons around here plus its pretty dry right now so I dont think we would take that risk.
I think you may be thinking a little too large a hot air balloon. Think grocery bag sized. As for not taking the risk, have you ever met a kid, or more likely in this case, teen, that thinks through the consequences of their actions.
And it is a very cool science trick. I could see a kid doing something like that, pretty easily.
This was the first result in YouTube when I looked it up. https://youtu.be/mfOm6IOA9Og
That would make sense, but AGAIN somehow it cant be. You see the kids in South Greene aren’t exactly that interested in science I know I saw their scores in science they genuinely aren’t trying. I mean its not even that hard when I was in 7th grade math I got all As, and the high schoolers oh boy. They’re very street smart but ask then a basic science question and they are dumb as bricks
Middle aged me calls it a science trick and understands at a basic level how it works. 8 year old me would have said “Hey man! Hey man! Hey man! Check this out!” not having a clue how it worked, but it’s cool because it involves fire and magic. And promptly proceeding to set the town on fire.
Ditto potato guns, soda bottle launchers (top half a soda bottle, a coffee cup, a little water and a firecracker), Mentos granades (coke and mentos), flamethrowers (just hairspray and a lighter), vacuum cannons and other things that burned, went boom or did something else exciting.
Give the kids a break, they may not be able to communicate their understanding in standard language, but they understand far more than they, and their test scores, realize.
Fair enough still not 100% sure but thats the most likely one so thanks for helping!