So, yeah, for the past week (June 28-July third) I was at my WAS residency, maybe I'll give you a full brief of what all happened, but yeah. We had this engineering challenge that was supposed to simulate a payload lofting into LEO (Low Earth Orbit), using a long line of fishing string, a straw, and balloons.

Well, Red Team (there's four teams, I was in Grey Team) got one really long and skinny balloon, like the type used in balloon animals, and two round balloons. The effect? You can guess.