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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It will come down on its own eventually.

[–] Venat0r@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago

This is the information that guy is selling for $1000 πŸ˜‚

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now I'm wondering how long it would take

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is designed like a hot air balloon, but it appears to have a sealed balloon. This is probably a helium balloon, which means you're going to have to wait for the helium to leak out.

Based on the art, I'd say it would last about as long as a normal latex filled helium balloon (it's bigger, so there's more in it, but also more surface area) so probably would take a day or two before it deflates enough to drop.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember that volume increases cubically whilst surface area increases exponentially (i think)

[–] Omniforous@mander.xyz 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Volume is cubic (r^3) and surface area is quadratic (r^2)

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Your formatting didn't come out right.

[–] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cloud services. (They lock you in, I know. )

[–] desertdruid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

AWS and GCP in a nutshell

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good luck with getting him to pay from 50 meters up in the air

[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Phones still work from 50~~ft~~ metres in the air....

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good luck exchanging information ^over the distance I specified^

[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] derpgon@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, also, I am sure a balloon costs more than 1000$, so I am stealing that, lol.

[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. Through what mechanism will you steal a balloon that will stay aloft for a couple of days, has no mechanism of altitude control once you remove the rope, and will likely expel you at the first sign of any wind, assuming you don't die of hypothermia or hypoxia first?

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Well, worst case scenario I die and he gets jail time.

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The fact that I can't immediately think of a reason this would be illegal scares me

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you refused to land this would be extortion I believe, but I'm no lawyer

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So why aren't loot boxes extortion then? I immediately thought of EA.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

cutting the rope and drifting can save you a grand

[–] realitista@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A smart businessman would make sure to tell them they need to leave anything pointy on the ground.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

a smarter man keeps his edge

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's ok guns aren't sharp :^)

[–] IMongoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

Climbing down the rope would do the job as well, considering it’s latched to the rim of the basket. Probably be fairly easy, too. Wrap shirt around hands, clamp feet to rope (one above the other so the rope rests between your shoes, which then functions as a brake to slow your slide), and slide down.

[–] nl4real@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Jump out of spite.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good luck collecting the money.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Just do the scam on crypto bros only

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Climb down the line, balloon still up.

[–] CustardFist@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

Didn’t read the Terms and Conditions. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

Kind of like with Boeing and those poor astronauts stuck on the space station

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I would just wait until he went to sleep and then slide down the rope.