So I decided to go on a quest to find out of its possible for a balloon to be paper. My first goal was to find out what exactly something must be, to be a balloon. What the qualifications, and limitations were.
My first action of course, was to simply look it up, and courtesy of Dictionary.com, I was able to come up with the following definitions.
1. a bag made of thin rubber or other light material, usually brightly colored, inflated with air or with some lighter-than-air gas and used as a children's plaything or as a decoration
2. a bag made of a light material, as silk or plastic, filled with heated air or a gas lighter than air, designed to rise and float in the atmosphere and often having a car or gondola attached below for carrying passengers or scientific instruments.
Although these don't say that a balloon can be made out of paper, it does not prove that one could not be. Thus, I turn to my good old friend, Wikipedia. However, it basically told me the same thing.
My quest turned to google. The first thing I came across was this :
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/275449/paper_balloon/
The video says it will make a paper balloon, but I dont think it was totally honest. What I saw being made, was a paper cube. SO I decided to search on.
Upon further search, I was only able to find similar videos. I was also able to find balloons coated with paper, and I was almost ready to give up!
But then, Alas, I had an epiphany. What if one was to take a paper lunch bag, fill it with helium, and ties the open end shut? It would surely float, and how could one say that it is not a balloon? By god I solved the riddle!
Thank you, for reading this most intuitive blog post.
My first action of course, was to simply look it up, and courtesy of Dictionary.com, I was able to come up with the following definitions.
1. a bag made of thin rubber or other light material, usually brightly colored, inflated with air or with some lighter-than-air gas and used as a children's plaything or as a decoration
2. a bag made of a light material, as silk or plastic, filled with heated air or a gas lighter than air, designed to rise and float in the atmosphere and often having a car or gondola attached below for carrying passengers or scientific instruments.
Although these don't say that a balloon can be made out of paper, it does not prove that one could not be. Thus, I turn to my good old friend, Wikipedia. However, it basically told me the same thing.
My quest turned to google. The first thing I came across was this :
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/275449/paper_balloon/
The video says it will make a paper balloon, but I dont think it was totally honest. What I saw being made, was a paper cube. SO I decided to search on.
Upon further search, I was only able to find similar videos. I was also able to find balloons coated with paper, and I was almost ready to give up!
But then, Alas, I had an epiphany. What if one was to take a paper lunch bag, fill it with helium, and ties the open end shut? It would surely float, and how could one say that it is not a balloon? By god I solved the riddle!
Thank you, for reading this most intuitive blog post.
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