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Can a inner tube from a motorcycle filled with helium float into the sky?

Or would the innertube be too heavy.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    inner-tube would probably be too heavy, the total weight including inner-tube and the helium must be less than the weight of air that would occupy the same space.

  • 1 decade ago

    Helium loft is 1 gram/liter. A heavy rubber inner tube won't get off the ground.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I haven't tried it but I believe the innertube is too heavy.

  • 1 decade ago

    You would find that there is not enough gas capacity to offset the weight.

    Imagine a heluim filled balloon. It has much greater gas capacity and is much lighter (thin material, light weight valve).

    These things barely float. It takes many hundreds to lift 150 lbs.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It might hover a bit, but I seriously doubt you would get much loft. If it was incredibly thin walled, it might go up a little. Condoms work waaay better

  • randy
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    no. the weight to lift is too one sided.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    yes

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    yes hold on

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