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  • How Many Balloons Will It Take To Make Your House Fly? [INFOGRAPHIC]

    22 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone in Adventure, Lifestyle
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    Yesterday we reported on Jonathan Trappe’s incredible recreation of the famous floating house from Pixar’s film Up. Trappe staged his flight during this year’s International Balloon Festival in Mexico.

    But have you ever wondered if something like this would be possible for real-life buildings? Thanks to the folks at Movoto Real Estate, you can now find out how many balloons it would theoretically take to make your house fly!

    By using previous calculations done by Wired’s Alexis Madrigal and Slate Magazine’s Nina Rastogi, along with their own extensive knowledge of hypothetical housing situations, the Movoto team was able to crunch the numbers to figure out how many party balloons it would take to lift tourist destinations from around the world. Here are some famous examples:

    • Empire State Building: 68,705,882,353
    • Taj Mahal: 2,447,058,824
    • Playboy Mansion: 500,800,000
    • Burji Khalifa: 94,117,647,059

    If you would like to find out the precise amount of balloons needed to get your digs into the air, you’ll first need to find out how many square metres your place consists of. Then simply enter it into the below infographic:

    Lift Your House with Balloons By Movoto Real Estate

    [Source: Movoto]

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