So to start off, today I have sad news to share. Today we lost our cardboard house. Yes, lost. I will explain how, but let me start at the beginning. So today we made a small cardstock house. Last time our cardboard house didn't go up, so we started even smaller. It took 12 balloons to get the cardstock house up.
Cardstock Measurements-
Height- 0.2286 m
Wide- 0.2032 m
Deep- 0.1778 m
Weight- 55 grams
As you can see from the measurements the house was much smaller, and we were elated when it went up. We even made everyone look to see our success. So we decided to try the cardboard house again. Jordan had gone and gotten some balloons will up with helium that were much larger than the balloons we used on Monday. We began tieing the balloons on, until we had thirty balloons tied to the house. Our helium had run out, so that was all we could do. The house hovered, but did not go up. We were determined though so we cut a part of the roof off, made two windows, and cut some of the bottom off. We cut 34 grams off of the house, and yes my friends, it took flight. We also calculated the the volume in the balloons was about 20,580 (and that is relying on my math, so that may not be correct).
We were so happy that we decided to take the house outside and see what would happen. We took it out front, and then I let the house go. It took less than 3 seconds for the house to get out of my reach. I jumped and tried to catch it, but it was too gone. The wind took our house up, and we chased it through campus, across central, and we finally stopped a Gold and Buena Vista and spent 10 minutes just watching it, hoping it would come down. Although it was a sad loss, I must say it was a wonderful sight. The movie basically came to life, and it was nice seeing all the confused looks on people's faces as they watched a little house tied to balloons fly away.
In the beginning we had wanted our house to go up 2 meters. The house outside went up so high it became a little black dot in the sky. Now we didn't measure it or anything but I think that it was higher than 2 meters...a lot higher than two meters.
So what now? Well first we have to make another cardboard house, and then we are going to see if we can control the direction of the house.
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