how to make a kid disappear like kaiser söze
on friday the world was glued to the news that a boy had flown away in a helium balloon. on saturday night, we learned that those heene people were makin’ up the whole story. by reading how a helium balloon works. i figured out how the heene family made falcon disappear like the keyser. from what i could tell, they did this*:
- weighed little falcon
- determined the volume of the balloon needed to sweep him away
the volume of a sphere is 4/3 * pi * r3, where r is the radius of the balloon. so they determined the radius of the sphere (the radius is half the diameter). cubed the radius (multiplied it by itself twice: r*r*r), multiplied it by 4/3 and then multiply by pi. - since one cubic foot of helium will lift about 28.2 grams, they multiplied the volume of the balloon and presumably the kid by 28.2.
- finally, they divided by 448 — the number of grams in a pound — to determine the number of pounds it can lift.
i totally suck at math and glassed over the formula when i was researching it but reading this had to be more interesting than reading about whether or not the parents scammed the country. am i right?
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