(PhysOrg.com) -- How hard can it be to lift a house with helium balloons? A National Geographic team of scientists, engineers, and balloon pilots has demonstrated how to achieve such a feat, which was ...

"After crunching all of the numbers..." This is super cool! The YouTube creators called Corridor Crew (or Corridor Digital) made a video looking at the balloon house from Pixar's Up with the goal of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new video from the Corridor Crew YouTube channel (via Digg) explores just how many balloons it would actually take to perform ...

National Geographic Channel team successfully floats little house held aloft by 300 weather balloons. Why can't life always mimic a charming Pixar movie? Leslie Katz led a team that explored the ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. In the new Pixar film Up, a crotchety old man named Carl ties thousands of balloons to his house and ...

Inspired by Up from Disney/Pixar, National Geographic’s “How Hard Can It Be?” television series transformed fiction into reality when they constructed and flew a 16×16 ft house with 300 balloons.

It’s a question posed in a hit animated movie: How many balloons would it take to lift a house? While reality outweighs the fantasy, it’s worth a fanciful look. * The animators are on record saying ...