• Bosht@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    ‘sure that happened’ but moving on from that and taking it from a comedic stance: The absolute chaos of balloon harnessed roadkill just floating into traffic idk, fucking amazing mental picture there, lmfao. Or just dropping in front of a school bus and splattering on the windshield, children screaming, etc. There’s def a couple comedy sketches that could be done there.

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    9 hours ago

    I didn’t understand any of that.

    What is a wet specimen? Wouldn’t it take a bunch of balloons to float roadkill?

    Why is a wet specimen and flying roadkill similar?

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        There’s a lot of optimization that can be done to make OEM raccoons flight worthy.

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          Yep. We can place them on a diet, shave their fur, pump them full of helium… We have the technology.

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        Yeah I knew anything bigger than a squirrel would require something ridiculous. I’m thinking even a squirrel would set you back a bit given the scarcity and price of helium. The balloon is the cheap part.

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          Helium is portrayed as second most abundant element in the universe. Not scarce at all. Our ability to collect and make use of it, that’s scarce.

          A squirrel would probably need about 100 balloons.

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    12 hours ago

    Can you imagine the confusion of a dead animal just falling in your front yard and witnessing that? This coworker’s spawning a whole ass religion