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National Geographic builds Pixar's Up floating house
Did the floating house from Pixar's animated film Up inspire you to fly to South America? This weekend, somewhere east of Los Angeles, a house tied to 300 helium-filled balloons flew 10 stories in the air. Each of the 8' weather balloons contained an entire container of helium. Inspired by Up, a crew from National Geographic Channel's new show How Hard Can it Be? filmed the house reaching an altitude of 10,000 feet. The 16' x 16' house remained airborne for an hour, presumably not weighed down by an old man, a Wilderness Explorer, or a talking dog.
[Photo courtesy National Geographic Channel via My Modern Met ]
Thanks to Legal Nomads' Jodi Ettenberg for the link.
Filed under: North America, South America, United States, Video
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Judith Kitzes Mar 7th 2011 12:27PM
I loved this movie, and would love to see the actual house fly. How fun!
Dougeeee Mar 8th 2011 12:49PM
Seems like kind of a waste. Isn't helium a dwindling, finite resource on Earth? It's ludicrous how helium is still being used for stuff as trivial as party balloons and stunts like this when it is estimated that the world has less than 30 years of helium remaining at the current rate of use.
Ray Mar 27th 2011 11:40AM
put a sock in it! Whiner
Rick Mar 9th 2011 2:23PM
Hopefully it did not come down on anyone's house.