If helium lifts about 1g per cubic meter of volume
I agree the boy wasn't in there, but there is no way your number above is correct. 1 gram is about the mass of a paperclip. A regular kid's helium balloon, with a volume much smaller than a cubic meter, can lift more than that.
794 posted on 10/15/2009 1:14:08 PM PDT by Sloth
(For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of the International Olympic Committee.)
You mean the boy wasn't in there from the time we began seeing footage of the thing. Who knows if something dropped before any camera crew got ahold of it???
871 posted on 10/15/2009 1:24:57 PM PDT by mentor2k