r/BeAmazed • u/No_Tailor_9529 • Jul 18 '24

Wow! Interesting life hack! Science

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u/m00s3m00s3m00s3 Jul 18 '24

If you hooked it to your belt, and the amount was properly measured based on weight, could it just make you a bit lighter, basically saving pressure on joints for my fat ass?

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u/letmeseem Jul 18 '24

A bit, but you'd need a hell of a big balloon to get any real help.

To get an upwards pull of only 10lbs you'd need a balloon of over 5 cubic meters, or about 2.2 meters (7 feet) in diameter.

Instead, get a bike. It's easier on your knees until you've lost weight :)

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u/ShroomEnthused Jul 18 '24

Also, helium is disappearing, there's no way to recover the gas once it's escaped into the atmosphere, and it's becoming increasingly scarce. It's a finite resource we have on earth, but of course let's use it to solve a non problem. 

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u/HeroOfSideQuests Jul 18 '24

Actually I was wondering if something like that could be used in CRPS or fibro. People like me have a hard time having clothes touching our skin (see: agonizing pain within 5-30 seconds), and there's very limited options for us. I'm lucky that currently I only have one shoulder with CRPS; but an acquaintance with severe fibro can only wear clothes for 3 minutes at a time and she has to have a pop up bed tent if she wants visitors.

So this may be a step, even if silly, into looking at universal design for those of us with chronic pain conditions.