Upon digging around in the journal’s archive, I found a few other gems… If you enjoyed the film Up, you might want to peruse the paper that asked how many helium balloons would actually be required to ...

Couch, clutching a big ... balloons 5 feet in diameter, attached them to strings and tied clusters of six balloons each to a tiny carabiner clip. Each balloon gives four pounds of lift. The chair ...

Then, clutching a big mug of coffee ... and traveled at about 20 mph. Each balloon attached to his chair gives four pounds of lift. The chair weighed about 400 pounds, and Couch and his parachute ...

Kent Couch used balloons and a lawn chair to fly above the Oregon sky. July 11, 2007 — -- When the mischievous children's book monkey Curious George wanted a lift, he simply grabbed onto a ...

The conceit of the new Disney/Pixar cartoon epic, Up, is that an old guy's house gets attached to a bunch of helium balloons which lift it up out ... Cluster Ballooning fans actually do this ...

In the new Pixar film Up, a crotchety old man named Carl ... This left several Explainer readers wondering: Just how many balloons would it take to lift a house? If Carl were trying to use regular ...