Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - BONUS SHOW 200: "Cluster Ballooning (The Thing From Pixar's 'Up')"
This is the bonus show for Episode 200! (Helium)
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore the obviously incredibly fascinating topic of people using a big bunch of helium balloons to travel through the air. (It's basically the thing from Up but with a chair instead of a house.)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
Piccard Balloon Flight, Rochester, Minnesota (Minnesota Digital Library)
Chair, Lawn, Larry Walters (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum)
US balloon daredevil floats across English Channel (BBC News)
Up, up and away: U.S. adventurer becomes first man to cross the Alps... with helium balloons (The Daily Mail)
Jonathan Trappe forced to cut short transatlantic cluster balloon mission (The Guardian)
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