Re: Kibbie Dome helium club

From: Brett Sanborn <brett.d.sanborn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 10:52:58 -0400

I don't think they explode. They're not under a lot of pressure like latex
balloons are. It's more of a slow leak action. We however did see several
Mylar balloons get destroyed one year in Belgrade. People were banging them
into the ceiling where there happened to be rebar or something extending
down. You have to be a lot more careful for sure. I think Lutz made several
of the European fliers' balloons and charged around $150 for them. I think
Larry Cailliau bought one in Belgrade in 2008.

Brett


On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Nick Ray <lasray_at_gmail.com> wrote:

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> I'll join the club again,
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> Nick
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> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Brett Sanborn <brett.d.sanborn_at_gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> It's not enough just to have a Mylar balloon--it has to be made well. At
>> the WC recently, most if not all of the other competitors had Mylar
>> balloons and they topped them off every day. We only topped our team Mylar
>> balloon off once in 8 days of being down in the mine.
>>
>> Brett
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>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:37 AM, William D. gowen <wdgowen_at_gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> A good way to conserve helium would be for us to have a supply source
>>> for Mylar balloons. Does anyone know of such a source?
>>>
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>>> On 4/15/2014 10:07 AM, john_kagan_at_hotmail.com wrote:
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>>> Hi Jake,
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>>> I hope you can make it. We need to get the majority of participants
>>> as soon as possible, but we can likely squeeze one or two more people in at
>>> the end.
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