Everything about this stinks
It starts with sick kids in hospitals liking balloons and ends in ANTISEMITISM
Yes, they've weaponized being small and weak to bombs and bullets!
Helium is also heavier. For my dieselpunk setting, I came up with a design that uses helium as a safety "wrap" for hydrogen balloons to make air battleships. In the final scene where you take down the British Dreadnought, the British Admiral gets a squeaky voice as he cries out in rage.
A helium Hindenburg could lift like 3 tons while a hydrogen Hindenburg could do 10.
3 tons is barely enough for the engines and crew.
They will rain small scraps of rubber onto Israeli land, causing the death of up to tens of birds and mayhaps even a lizard
Helium is inert. I presume they must attach the fire bomb to the balloon, but we all know this is fucking bullshit. Anyone reverse image search this yet?
helium balloons like that can barely hold up a lego guy (much to my childhood self's disappointment), theres no way this actually carries something more dangerous than unattended campfire ash.
Yep, and there's basically no way that they would have any meaningful impact by landing anywhere they would cause any injury to anyone. I seem to recall last time this was posted that it turned out this pic was taken somewhere in Texas.
:geordi-no: exploiting humanitarian aid for its own terrorist agenda
:geordi-yes: shrewdly and economically using what resources they have available to pull themselves up by their bootstraps
I thought this was satire. Turns out the account is very much serious. Do not click on that link if you don't want to pop a blood vessel.
Helium is an inert gas, but I don't know if we still think that makes it non-combustible; Xenon and Radon are reactive inert gasses.
that being said I uhhhhhhhh doubt Palestine has the tools to weaponize helium atm (again if it's even possible.)
inert
I'm pretty sure that this means it's not chemically reactive enough to combust (which is usually a reaction of a material with oxygen, producing CO2, H2O, and some waste material).
Right, which is why I have the second part where we've discovered the conditions to make Xenon and Radon reactive.
Maybe we just haven't found the conditions necessary to get a reaction out of it, but again I said IF it's even possible
My guess is that it's bullshit Israeli propaganda because it's a completely ineffective weapon that will literally achieve nothing at all.
I'm just not convinced that the palestinians would want to start completely random fires. Their rocket attacks are very much targeted despite the propaganda claiming they're not. They have literal actual drones now. Wasting time on completely random attacks like this when your manpower can be put towards producing rockets or helping people is highly questionable.
The more likely scenario is that this is nonsense made up by Israel because it plays into their propaganda war that the Palestinians are weak, shooting missiles that are ineffective. I followed the events meticulously in real time. They are well equipped and do extremely targeted attacks. The propaganda about their rocket attacks being random is not to be listened to.
Eve, I thought you were ripping massive toots and sending them back to Hamas in balloons?
Maybe I'm wrong but is it propane canister? If it is, how its supposed to work? Thats a heavy ass (I presume) canister, there must be a shit ton of those balloons, you could see it from kilometers away, so not exactly sneaky. I suppose they can use wind for navigation, but wouldn't be really dificult at all to aim it? This looks like propane can literally attached to baloons, there isnt any mechanism to make it explode, at worst it would kill someone if it would fall accidentally on someone head. I know baloons were used to cary bombs historically, but it doesnt look right to me? AM i talking from my ass here?
