Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'

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lightbulb balloons
night time world tour
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Hot air balloons that illuminate the landscape below. Imagine what the Grand Canyon, Stonehenge, or the Great Wall of China would look like lit up at night by a half dozen floating giant lightbulbs.

jaksplat, Feb 13 2008

PowerMoon HeliMax http://www.antidazz...ermoon_formats.html
These guys use helium, but basically the same idea. [neutrinos_shadow, Feb 13 2008]


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       It's going to take a lot more than 6 giant lightbulbs to illuminate any of those areas.

quantum_flux, Feb 14 2008
  

       how about 99 then?

jaksplat, Feb 14 2008
  

       If there's 99, they'd have to be red.

Canuck, Feb 14 2008
  

       I like this image but how are the balloons to be lit up?

po, Feb 14 2008
  

       // but how are the balloons to be lit up? //   

       Conventional tungsten-fillament light bulbs are filled with an inert gas - typically Argon - at atmospheric pressure. There's no reason why the same thing wouldn't work inside a Helium balloon ......

8th of 7, Feb 14 2008
  

       Or put a limelight on top of the burner of a hot air balloon.

MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 14 2008
  


 
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