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Related: About this forum"Stupidly simple" way to use party balloons to study tornadoes
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/science/2017/11/24/Birthday-party-supplies-used-successfully-to-advance-tornado-research/stories/201710050181
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"Stupidly simple" way to use party balloons to study tornadoes (Original Post)
yortsed snacilbuper
Nov 2017
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Submariner
(12,509 posts)1. Best use of a styrofoam cup ever
A lightweight instrumentation vehicle for an airborne meteorological data gathering probe, instead of as an item of trash floating around your favorite stream or bay.
At probably about one-thousandth the cost of a similar NOAA probe. Cool science.
ashling
(25,771 posts)2. I should get some new glasses
I clicked on this to find out how the heck to use party balloons to study
TOMATOES
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)3. Air Loom tomatoes???
ashling
(25,771 posts)4. Lighter than air loom
blimpees, in fact
Girard442
(6,085 posts)5. The idea that any cheap little doohickey can know exactly where it is all the time is mind-boggling.