• Friendlybirdseggs@sopuli.xyzOP
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    15 hours ago

    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.

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      15 hours ago

      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

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        14 hours ago

        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

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          13 hours ago

          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.