[tophat9000]

Who would thing someone would put hydrogen in balloons instead of helium.

Could be worse, what would happen if some one tried the Donald Duck trick with a hydrogen balloons?

[LarryLied]

As kids we would put two common household materials in a Coke bottle (they were thicker then and could take the heat generated), aid water and quickly fit a balloon around the neck of the bottle. Loads of fun making our own little Hindenburgs.

[John H K]

Who would thing someone would put hydrogen in balloons instead of helium

The United States is the Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, and Venezuela, combined, of Helium.

We basically have pretty much ALL of it, from a few wells in Kansas, I believe. Nobody else has any at all. I suspect it's VERY expensive overseas and we use up almost all our Helium ourselves.

That's why the Hindenburg was full of Hydrogen...we had Helium in our Airships (which pretty much all crashed disastrously, too, but at least not in flames.)