Made me think of the doomed "10 cent beer night", another Cleveland event that suffered from unintended consequences:
The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of 1986 [video]
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#22I wasn't aware of this. So they launched 1.5 million balloons to set a Guinness World Record only to have Guinness not recognize the record and have 60% of the balloons fall into the river and eventually make their way to Canada. Crazy times back then.
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#23Nowadays, I can't look at any helium balloon release and not think it's littering. “Pretty” and out of sight, but still littering. You're throwing plastic into the nature and environment.
Not to mention the waste of an important non-renewable resource.
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#24Nowadays, I can't look at any helium balloon release and not think it's littering. “Pretty” and out of sight, but still littering. You're throwing plastic into the nature and environment.
Not to mention the waste of an important non-renewable resource.
The helium used in balloons isn't actually useful for much of anything.
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#25Made me think of the doomed "10 cent beer night", another Cleveland event that suffered from unintended consequences: https://youtu.be/CFtR38Mlscc
That one is commemorated on a t-shirt I've seen locally.
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#26> most of the balloons ended up in Canada in these tense times, Prime Minister Trudeau should look back with an open heart to the days when a great American city gave the Canadian people thousands of free children's toys.
trying to figure out the downvotes here. was it the Cleveland thing? do people not think Cleveland is a great city?
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#27I wasn't aware of this. So they launched 1.5 million balloons to set a Guinness World Record only to have Guinness not recognize the record and have 60% of the balloons fall into the river and eventually make their way to Canada. Crazy times back then.
if this had happened today the president would have announced a 50% tariff on the Guiness Book of Records
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#28Here's another fun idea gone horribly wrong courtesy of
Cleveland:
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not to mention the waste of an important non-renewable resource.
The helium used in balloons isn't actually useful for much of anything.
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#30Unrelated: I recently found out The Atlantic is owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Steve Jobs. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/emerson...
I didn't even know a person could own an entire ocean. I should get off the internet and start working on that first billion.