“This was just a really thin black plastic bag you’d fill with air, seal, and then set out in the sun,” said the man, who asked not to be identified but posted under the Reddit handle thatsboots3010. “The sun would heat the air in the black bag and the bag would become buoyant and float.”
They set out to replicate it and succeeded in creating a more than 30-foot balloon made of trash bags that floated to the heavens when warmed by the sun. And they didn’t give it a passing thought.
“We thought nothing at the time of it getting away other than ... Read even more
