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 14 2008

PowerMoon HeliMax http://www.antidazz...ermoon_formats.html
These guys use helium, but basically the same idea. [neutrinos_shadow, Feb 14 2008]

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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