3/13/07 – Balloons

Balloons. We see people with them all the time. We see people lose them in the wind all the time. But we never think past that moment…until now. Where do the balloons go after the are released into the world. Up would be the obvious answer but eventually they will get high enough to pop and then what? Physics would tell us that gravity would then send the balloons back down to the earth. However, from what I have experienced this does not happen. I have never seen the remains of a balloon fall back onto the ground, nor have I ever seen random remains of balloons strewn about a parking lot or park. If so many balloons are lost into the air you would assume that at least once in your life you would see them come back down, but have you? I think not.

So if they do not come down what happens to them? Obviously they do not make it into space, melt from the sun, or are eaten by passing birds. There has to be a logical explanation for it all but there is not, therefore there must be something behind this that we do not know about. Maybe it is something that someone doesn’t want us to know about. Potentially a government conspiracy. If so why do they want the balloons and why do they not want us to know? It is scary to think about what exactly they could be planning to do with all the balloons. However, we will never truly know where exactly balloons end up or what they are used for and will be left to ponder the unexplainable questions.

So next time you see a child with a balloon let it go into the sky, watch as it disappears into the endless abyss of space and just think to yourself, where to now balloon? Then, share the insight and enlighten those around you to the unexplainable life of a lost balloon.