How large a balloon will I require to fly to the Sun?

Question

As a summer treat, it is my intention to take an excursion to the Sun, to examine first-hand the nuclear fusion.

My method of transport will be hot-air balloon. How large should my balloon be, and how much Champagne should I take?

Answer 1

There is a gentleman called Noah who may be able to help you out on this problem.

He managed to fit one pair of every species of animal on a boat he built along with enough food to feed them for several weeks.  He prevented the carnivores eating the herbivores and after his little venture repopulated the earth.

Such a genius as he would be able to calculate the dimensions of your balloon and no doubt estimate the volume of champers to boot.

Your local Vicar could probably help you contact him.

Tootles x

Answer 2

take as much champagne as you can cos i would wanna be very drunk whilst burning alive

Answer 3

Be sure to visit at least one of the Sun Spots, they are just absolutely splendid this time of year . And of course dont forget pack your sunblock !

Answer 4

I think a standard sized baloon should suffice. As for the baboon, one could strap wings on him to provide thrust to aid in directional turning.  Bon Voyage!

Answer 5

6ft diameter for you 10 ft for you and your baboon.

Answer 6

You'll be happy to learn that you do not need a very large balloon at all.  A simple mylar number, preferably one that offers some type of holiday greeting, should do the trick.  Make sure the ribbon is strong enough to support your weight for long enough to get into space.  Once in space, you'll need sunglasses, a heavy sweater, and 3-4 bags of swedish fish for sustenance.  The journey could take as many 3 days, so 6 bottles of sparkly should suffice.

A word of caution:  maybe you should wait until winter.  The sun is much hotter in the summer.

Answer 7

you need not take a lot of champagne because you will never escape to space.

because, no balloon have a velocity of 11 km/s, which is required to escape from earth's gravitational force.

Also, if you manage to escape to space(by other means not balloon), how will you produce hot air. because fire needs oxygen and in space there is no oxygen

so, your fire will get extinguished as soon as you escape into space, no hot air you balloon will not work and you will never reach sun

Answer 8

Once you reach a certain altitude, you will lose buoyancy and be unable to continue.  In order to reach the sun, you would need to make a balloon that has a negative density (to repel earth's gravity) and then be able to switch to a positive density to be sucked in by the sun's.  This could be accomplished by either creating a balloon with negative size or negative mass.

Answer 9

Well my good sir, I do hate to rain on your parade. Unfortunately, said balloon will be unable to escape Earth's gravity. Perhaps said champagne would be best served here on Earth. Or perhaps a balloon trip to Champagne, France is in order?

Answer 10

If you get as high as the balloon will take you, perhaps you can lasso the sun from there and bring it close enough for a good look. Remember to bring a long tube you can poke into the interior of the sun to see where the fusion is taking place.

Answer 11

You need a balloon with an inflated area of at least 928,475,093,287,458,932,745 cubic meters.  And you should take enough Champagne bottles so that you and your baboon can have Champagne IVs all the way to the sun and back... And don't forget suntan lotion.

Answer 12

I assume you will be personally providing the hot air to inflate it.

Answer 13

Never mind the sun old chap, pop round with that champagne.  I've got a couple of balloons that should keep us afloat for a few hours.  Nuclear fission?  Isn't that what anglers in the region of Chernobyl do?

Answer 14

lol... You're never gonna reach the sun with a dumb balloon and champagne. Yeah, it's a great way to die, though!

me07. :)

Answer 15

The bigger the better I suggest a hot air balloon the size of the Isle of Wight old boy for efficiency sake. Don't get your baboon and balloon confused though, I felt a right fool flying over the Lake districts in one of our over inflated primate chums I can tell you. Tip top.

Answer 16

Balloons fly only in the air, out of 15omillion kilometers to  sun Air is only present for few hundred kilometers.As  bottles,you can have plenty of them.

Answer 17

The balloon should be the standard size. As for champagne, I would recommend taking 6 bottles for drinking and about 25 for thrust. Once your balloon goes as high it can normally, aim bottles of champagne at the ground and pop the corks. The pressure released should be enough to shoot you right out of the atmosphere.

Answer 18

My good sir, may i suggest that you visit Lady Petunia Fuddledump's under garment Taylor will supply you with all the material required for the balloon as you will require it to be as Strong as possible...as all my chums have told me that Lady P's undergarments are impenetrable ?

can you bring me back a slice of sun as we seem to of lost ours around here? tally ho

Answer 19

You've already been hitting the "Champers' haven't you?