These AI comics are terrible.

Someone recreate this without AI please

It would, but less than the density difference, since you’ve removed weight from the balloon thus gravity has less of a pull on the balloon. My wife (a PE in thermodynamics) was the one that verified that comment before I posted it, hence why I didn’t say it would increase lift by the difference in density.

You could use hydrogen, which is less dense than helium. Then if it catches on fire like the Hindenburg you’d already be in the water.

Huh? What corporate entity?

tens of millions of dollars is a pittance to a country the size of the USA… you do realize that’s less than a dollar per person even if you actually spent hundreds of millions, right?

It’s not new. https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454