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Why they use balloons?

posted 17 years ago by el_ojo_bizarro
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Can anyone explain me why they use those balloons in their shoulders?. Thanks

[–] 17 years ago

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[–] DD-931 17 years ago

The helium balloons are supposed to keep them bouyant enough not to sink into the man-eating seaweed they are walking over.

It's all scientifically-proven fact.

No, really.

:)

[–] scotbpens 15 years ago

What lighter-than-air gas are the balloons filled with? Helium is usually extracted from natural gas. Hydrogen is commercially produced by electrolysis of water or by acid reacting with various metals. Where would these inbred descendants of Spanish conquistadors get the technology to make either gas, if they've been isolated for 400 years?

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[–] eckerry 15 years ago

Did you SEE that girl??? She needed no extra balloons to keep HER afloat--------

[–] paultagonist 12 years ago

Watching the movie while I'm on this board; right after I read your comment, the movies goes (referring to that character) "I think she's on board, messing around with those balloon things." Images immediately sprung to mind..

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[–] greenbudgie 9 years ago

It was difficult to know which balloons to look at in Sarah's scenes.

[–] VideoKidVsTheVoid 17 years ago

The balloons were great. They made for wonderfully bizarre and original imagry. I'll keep an image of all those dark balloon shouldered figures making their way across the foggy water-bound sea vine landscape in my mind for all time now. I'm glad they didn't really talk about their logical purpose (which was probably to make them lighter, lift them upwards and help them walk across the sea vines); because I enjoyed them as a conceptual element and the mysterious imagry and creepy menace that they gave to the created fantastical landscapes.

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[–] Tresix 10 years ago

The same way Captain Nemo can breath underwater with a giant conch shell in "Mysterious Island": it's just science fiction.

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[–] bwahahoha 10 years ago

The funny part is that when they reached their destination they took the balloons off and held them at their side. If they were supposed to help with buoyancy they would be pulling up all the time or float away.