is it realy possible to fill your denim jeans with helium and float?here's a video Guys fill their jeans with helium

If you had watched any of the Mythbuster episodes where they lifted someone with helium you would know that it takes a very large amount of helium to lift a person. I don't remember if it was 25,000 or 35,000 helium balloons to lift a small child. Or to lift Adam it took a raft of tubes that were about 2 to 3 feet in diameter laid out in 2 layers that were around 20 x 40 feet.

Not to mention that there is no possibility that denim would hold Helium. Helium would go right through denim like it wasn't there.

not possible not enough helium if the jeans could hold helium it may not even be enough to lift just the pants

At room temperature and 1 atmosphere of pressure helium had about 1 kg of lift per cubic meter.

Since common sense tells us that jeans are not likely to hold the required amount of helium, what material(s) will? I would be interested to know!

wow it's been said already. there's nothing else i can add. jeans have pores in them so helium would go right through and even if you would put on a pants like balloon, it wouldn't lift you.

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Originally posted by Myth_Kellian:
wow it's been said already. there's nothing else i can add. jeans have pores in them so helium would go right through and even if you would put on a pants like balloon, it wouldn't lift you.

what if you tried other kinds of pants like ski pants or sweats or parachute pants

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what if you tried other kinds of pants like ski pants or sweats or parachute pants

Busted on the show, for all intents and purposes.

1st bust: Pilot episode 3, Lawn Chair Balloon. It took 16 large weather balloons to get Adam off the ground.

2nd bust: Episode 21, Carried Away. It took 3,500 party balloons to lift a 40 pound child.

3rd bust: Episode 49, Helium Raft. It took a raft the size of a large room to lift Adam.

and non-show busts:

4th bust: Denim won't contain helium

5th bust: The guy would be floating upside-down, not as though he was dangling from a wire...

i think it works because it worked with me and my friend!