Drop the Water Balloon from the Greatest Hight without it Bursting | Full Task | Taskmaster

[@dennysingh2813]

It's so adorable that Katherine keeps saying "we" and Alex is like "we?" Lol

[@kurtsudheim825]

She finally days "I'll" as she's running off to get a cushion

[@dennysingh2813]

@@kurtsudheim825 Lol true

[@paulcook7426]

So many people do this. Especially those with some kind of audience, as if the people they're talking to, are part of their persona.

[@AlexTheel]

Hopefully no one has made a drinking game to drink every time when Katherine says "we."

[@dennysingh2813]

@@AlexTheel they'd be drunk in minutes lol

[@17290E]

I really like the disbelief in Alex’s face when johnny’s balloon survived (love it when he breaks his little character), Johnny must have filmed his attempt before Daisy, because Alex doesn’t look as surprised when she succeeds

[@raveehahassan6289]

he looks scandalised, he let go of the rope too

[@Jack_X075]

good eye!

[@dAfoodie101]

8:58

[@amphitritemists4595]

The face i made when it worked i really thought he used real bricks 😆

[@brandonk99ign]

Holy Hell, what a great catch!

[@MrLordFireDragon]

I was genuinely waiting for them to reveal the balloon was made of something insane when Alex said "You never examined the real balloon" and someone succeeded in dropping it on a bin full of bricks.

[@FrederickFokker]

I was fully expecting this as well. Like the balloon was made of some kind of puncture proof tire rubber or Kevlar or something. My favorite tasks are the ones with a "the answer was right in front of you" twist.

[@kurosakiichigo7475]

Foam bricks....

[@gorak9000]

It's clearly a way larger balloon filled with hardly any water, so the balloon is really thick.

[@KaylaTheSprout]

It was probably filled with a non Newtonian fluid which when struck with a force suddenly becomes solid

[@kurotsuki5015]

@@KaylaTheSprout it definitely wasnt, then itd act very differently as for bounciness and such

[@richardfarrer5616]

The test was to drop it FROM the maximum height, so it didn't matter how far it fell. I would have tried a bag to the platform so that it went up with it and the balloon fell into it.

[@MrTnbopp123]

You say that like its nothing, how are you suppose to attach the bag? My initial idea was to just stand under the baloon and catch it with my hands, that would have only been good up to perhaps 4-5 meters though

[@somerandomguy4240]

@@MrTnbopp123 You would burst it that way. Attaching a bag would be easy.

[@Maitso]

Duct tape

[@MrTnbopp123]

@@Maitso And where is this magical duct tape

[@Maitso]

@@MrTnbopp123 Who said anything about magical? Duct tape has been used in other tasks. I don't recall any magicians involved retrieving it then. Quite a common item to have laying around the house in general, I'd say.

[@mindicity3874]

I go back and forth as to whether "am I the spider?" or "some fucker's gonna" is the best thing that Katherine Parkinson said during her series.

[@hiefunkiephf6704]

When she calls “herself” a “ginger bitch” during her interview is a top contender for me as well.

[@alice-gv9kb]

wait when does she say some fuckers gonna

[@mindicity3874]

@@alice-gv9kb 7:15. It seems to genuinely surprise Alex, too.

[@andreaskarlsson5251]

what task did she say "some fucker..."? :o Dont remember that

[@mindicity3874]

@@andreaskarlsson5251 7:15 in this video.

[@PrettyAmazingJ]

Its called Shallow Diving and Professor Splash (aka Darren Taylor) is the record Holder - 11.56m Dive into 12 inches of water - I think he did it into Tomato Soup once...

[@kurtsudheim825]

Ya, I've seen those videos, knew what she's talking about, Guinness or Ripley stuff

[@-uglyhag-5000]

Omg so she was actually right

[@LegacyCrono]

Ahh, that's smart, using tomato soup. You wouldn't be able to tell if he exploded.

[@PrettyAmazingJ]

@@LegacyCrono 🤣😂🤣😂

[@PokerJoker811]

And he still didn't win the Go-Big Show.

[@michaelablank]

This one was a task that was 100% made entertaining in the edit. Shows what geniuses they are.

[@icturner23]

The edit was good but it was intrinsically entertaining. That’s obvious from the fact that they clearly enjoyed doing it themselves.

[@MegaMinerd]

Jumping from a high height into a kiddy pool was legitimately an act on America's Got Talent one year.

[@tonyblake7569]

Personally I think Katherine technically won the task. Part of the rules said drop it from the highest point. 3 of them had it raised all the way up, but since she was the only one that had it in something hers was the only one raised a little higher than the highest the lift would go. Probably only a centimeter or 2 but still higher than the rest.

[@arthaiser]

katherine AND alex

[@ShortMan_123]

Daisy's right, shallow diving is a real thing

[@kurtsudheim825]

I knew what she was talking about, & no in nit from the us

[@rathernotdisclose8064]

@@kurtsudheim825 but that is where she saw it, which is all she said.

[@bobbobert9379]

I think she's talking about professor splash??

[@deanomac99999]

i saw bugs bunny do it

[@Godsbane]

@@deanomac99999 you deserve more likes for this comment.

[@buttonsfan]

Five seconds after hearing the instructions I had to listen to them again. Attach a bag (or something) to the lift to catch the water balloon almost as soon as it falls. Raise the lift all the way. The Water Balloon would only drop a short distance but it would drop from the greatest height.

[@southpineshooligan]

They're laughing at her about the pool thing, but little do they know, she's not wrong lmao

[@aydin5978]

Holy heck you just made me look it up and she was right all along lmao

[@GreySlasher63]

i still laugh about to this day the most. laughable rumor about America can end up true

[@sebastiang7394]

Only Americans are crazy enough to do something like this.

[@absolutcabbagery3661]

It was a popular thing for physics professors to do in front of students for a while, as a good demonstration of displacement in relation to force and acceleration

[@bodvarson1933]

Do you really think we're out having BBQs and jumping off of cranes? No. No we aren't.

[@dobviouz]

Imagine being outside and just seeing this giant tower slowly growing higher and higher

[@mintw4241]

“That Greg fellow has such strange friends”

[@neabby]

Johnny going for the high heels kills me 😂😂😂

[@SanderGoldman]

Its always funny when they ridicule someone for saying something insane about america that is 100% true

[@mip4422]

when else did they do it

[@rosonowski]

The high-shallow dive thing? Yeah, that's a thing.

[@dublinbounder]

Honestly though, the jumping from very high to small pool of water is more of a Vegas thing than the South. The South involves more motorcycles, ramps, and shared brain cells.

[@nagualdesign]

"Professor Splash", the current record holder, is from Denver. Shallow diving is performed all over the world though. Roy Fransen was famous for it in the UK. I'm surprised that Greg had never heard of such a thing. Even if he didn't think it was real, it's been in comic books and cartoons for donkey's years.

[@genieinthepot2455]

Don't think it's really an America specific thing. Pretty sure they do it in the UK as well, same vein as like trapeze artists I think.

[@billyeveryteen7328]

I love how much fun the editors have on this show.

[@free4fire]

Always nice when you have the same idea for solving the task as the people on the show so you can see if your idea would have worked or not, mine this time around was using the bathtub with water in it so I'm quite happy it was put to the test.

[@lovethenightair]

Everytime Katherine attempts a task I can't help but imagine her as Jen again. Roy needs to come and help her out!

[@GandWizard]

And Moss, too! (He'd be just like Victoria Coren-Mitchell). It would have to be team tasks.

[@draheim90]

I expected every single one of those to break. How strong was the material the balloon was made from?!

[@akaraven66]

It probably couldn't even be broken.

[@stunts1337]

they are made out of aircraft black boxes.

[@MrTnbopp123]

Im really suprised it survived hitting the water in the bathtub, thats quite a serious smack as it hits the surface

[@CaptainDCap]

@@MrTnbopp123 The material in the balloon has the same density as the material in the bath. (Both liquid water). The balloon was basically absorbing the impact of its own weight hitting the surface of the water and nothing more. Could've dropped it from orbit and it would've been fine.

[@BanditLeader]

@@CaptainDCap no it wouldnt. The faster something moves when it hits water, the harder the water becomes. It's why theres a limit to how far you can jump into a pool. It's why you use your toes/fingers to cut into the water. Water literally becomes as hard as concrete

[@Anythingforfreedom]

I thought he was an idiot for the brick idea until I realized they were foam bricks. Well played sir.

[@HHh-ej4rl]

As an American, we pay good money to see people dive from great heights into shallow water. Honest

[@ZesPak]

Catherines attempt (after she realized she had to put something underneath) was great as the pillow acted as a parachute as well. I would put it in a bedsheet and then catch it.

[@riccaby]

If I was Katherine, I would have argued that I dropped the balloon from just slightly higher than Johnny and Daisy, since it was inside the pillow rather than just resting directly on the surface of the winch.

[@kurtsudheim825]

You couldn't measure that height though, week, could but they didn't

[@acrojen03]

But then you could argue that she actually dropped it a shorter distance, as her cushions in the tub are higher above the ground than the water that was filled into the tub. There were a lot of different stuff you could've done as well, but the problem is that since it's Greg that chooses who wins, you won't know, while you're doing the task, whether he will count the height as simply what height the winch was at, or if he would take into account the distance travelled. (Although, for this one, you can kind of assume that it's not the distance travelled that matters, since the task just asks you to drop the balloon from the heighest point.)

[@Lilitha11]

As kids we used to throw water balloons at each other and it is pretty common for them to just bounce off people. So it isn't unexpected that they didn't pop.

[@EmmaWargh]

yeah I remember that filling regular balloons with water meant you had to chuck them as hard as you could and they still might not burst. I would probably have trusted that balloon to fall on its own, it looked very sturdy

[@goodguykonrad3701]

Surprised no one saw the easy way to guarantee a max height drop. If you got something like a blanket, you could secure it and wrap it around the dropping mechanism (not in a way that restricts it). That way, it drops the balloon about 1 foot into this blanket but from the maximum height

[@kurtsudheim825]

A few have here, issue is whether that's being dropped from 7m then if it only falls 0.5m? That's up for Greg to decide, but most would say, in terms of logic & laws, you haven't dropped it from that height if you raise the "floor"

[@goodguykonrad3701]

@@kurtsudheim825 "Drop this water balloon from the greatest height" That height is determined to be the height of the winch's platform above the ground. They don't take into account the height the baths provide or the wheelie bin. The height they seem to be referring to is the ground on which the winch is sitting

[@dojelnotmyrealname4018]

@@kurtsudheim825 Most would say, but this is the show for pedantry and rules lawyering. 65% of the tasks are "spot the clue in the room" and the other 35% are 'the rules didn't specify that'

[@richardfarrer5616]

@@kurtsudheim825 If that mattered then they could have said the win went to the person dropping the balloon the greatest distance.

[@ShiningDarknes]

@@goodguykonrad3701 Strictly speaking they could have even taken the balloon off the platform and gone much higher with it and dropped it. The task did not say it HAD to be dropped from the platform, the platform was merely a conveniently provided height to drop from. Honestly I would wager the balloon could have been dropped onto the grass from max height without bursting.

[@Zambicus]

Cinematographers are such unsung heroes of this show, and this task is a great example. You'd think they wouldn't go this hard, but they do.

[@lordcawdorofmordor2549]

Shallow diving was a thing I only encountered in American cartoons up until now and this video inspired me to look it up on KZbin. Wow!

[@demons27]

When I saw the end of Johnny's attempt. I knew what happened. The balloon was never filled to the max. Most water balloons burst easily if you fill it to the point where it can nearly burst.

[@ShiningDarknes]

The balloon was also thicker than a normal balloon. The test balloons were thinner which is why they were easily bursting despite being filled to the point that they were the same size as the task balloon.

[@AveragePicker]

Wait, you mean a balloon that’s about to burst will burst easily? No way. Next are you going to try to tell us a glass that is full will overflow more easily?

[@mea2079]

@@AveragePicker wait what? it will?

[@HUNTERxROY]

Professor Splash (ne. Darren Taylor) successfully dove from 37.8 feet (11.52 m) into a paddling pool of depth 1 foot (30 cm) breaking his record for a successive 20th time. So yeah XD Daisy was not wrong.

[@booperdee2]

breaking his what

[@ObadiahtheSlim]

Shallow diving totally is a thing. They'll belly flop into about a foot of water form a diving block. That's about 30cm.

[@alansmithee419]

There is an astronomical difference between "massive cranes" and a diving block.

[@ObadiahtheSlim]

@@alansmithee419 A massive crane can be used as a makeshift diving block.

[@alansmithee419]

@@ObadiahtheSlim Regulations dictate that a diving block can only be placed so high over the surface of the water. About 30 inches. To make my point more completely, the record for shallow diving is about 11.5 meters. Average sized cranes are significantly bigger than that.

[@teeemm9456]

@@alansmithee419 Maybe they meant a massive crane...bird?

[@alansmithee419]

@@teeemm9456 Well, I mean then you've gotta deal with animal abuse laws and no one wants to do that.

[@casketdriver1]

Great to see the complete task with everyone

[@MackianoBrayberini]

So...the task didn't specify that the balloon needed to 'fall' the distance, only 'dropped'. So, what if you tie the balloon to the top, and take it to the maximum height, and release it? You have 'dropped' it at the 'maximum height' 'without breaking the balloon'.

[@TheWereman84]

xD see my first thought was that the letter said 'fall without bursting' so I would just pop the balloon before it was dropped. A balloon that is already popped, can't pop when it falls.

[@jeanlafayette7152]

@@TheWereman84 Except the the task went on to specify 'You may not damage the water balloon'. Good luck arguing that popping a balloon doesn't count as damaging it.

[@erictripps125]

I love how everyone took a completely different approach.

[@FishAndKid]

To be fair. There is a thing called shallow diving where someone jumped from 11 meters to land in a paddling pool (30cm deep) pool

[@ctradio4416]

10:08 yes actually it is

[@thegray5730]

Darren Taylor (USA), aka 'Professor Splash', jumped from 10.3 m (33 ft 10 in) into a pool of water just 30 cm (12 in) deep. He's from Denver, Colorado tho.

[@jonsimpson6240]

I like how you say where he's from as if it's all the explanation we need for how he did it.

[@Petter1900]

I was right there wondering what the hell he was thinking with the bin of bricks

[@erinbecks1621]

I’m from the states and I can confirm that I have seen a performer jump off a super high diving board to land in a little kitty pool of water.

[@benison2497]

The first line in the video is the greatest British talk I've ever heard

[@carriew5106]

My initial thought was "drop it in water". I feel like I might have done this experiment at school, twenty years ago.

[@katiemarsh4970]

I know shallow diving is a thing, but I think it’s funnier if Daisy believes we all have rubber bones in the States 😂

[@tinkerer3399]

The funniest thing about that is two of the three record holders are British.

[@devine9018]

The fact that Johnny didn't get a bonus point for making Alex wear high heels feels... wrong

[@tlgibson97]

I was thinking to drop it in water or to attach a sheet just under the trap door to catch the balloon. Good to see the water worked

[@kurtsudheim825]

Many thought I'd the catchment system, argument then is did it really fall from that height if you've effectively raised the ground

[@tlgibson97]

@@kurtsudheim825 I think it depends on the wording of the task. I think it said the tallest hight dripped from, not the furthest fall. I think using the task wording to get an advantage is the best part of the show. Though I was happy to see so many dripped from the highest without breaking.

[@stocktonjoans]

The show is so good you almost don't realise how good the filmography is, some absolutely beautiful action shots

[@RoderickEtheria]

Okay, that seems an extremely easy task. Find the highest elevation and drop the water balloon. Keep hold of the string you attach to the water balloon.

[@Sunprism]

This one always bugged me, I knew instantly how to rig it...Attach a basket or something directly under the dropper. You can raise it full height, Drop it from the greatest height...And catch it immediately

[@penelopew77]

Thought the exact same thing immediately

[@aislingbolton793]

Oh yeah! Good idea

[@benjaminlumsden]

Yes. It should be measured by how far it falls though.

[@IanWilkinson]

@@benjaminlumsden "All the information's in the task" - 00:37

[@AlexWahlgren]

Except you put a book or something under the balloon to make it slightly higher and avoid the three way tie

[@paulcook7426]

My first thought was to drop it from the max height and then catch it. Well done to the three who took out said risk.

[@Natty11100]

Daisy isnt wrong about the divers, there's exhibition divers that dive in very shallow pools

[@FumblerX]

On the wiki it says, World records Darren Taylor successfully dove from 37.8 feet (11.52 m) into a paddling pool of depth 1 foot (30 cm)

[@jhoch5]

This is the greatest show

[@mattneff]

Simple. Drop it from 20 feet, then say it fell 19 feet and 11 inches without bursting

[@kasztak9947]

The real trick is to go up on the red board attached to the mechanism (while if possible removing as much of the far end where the balloon is originally situated for safety) up to the max height and dropping it yourself just above the max height and immediately catching it or letting it fall onto the red board. Highly dangerous but the task is about the height, not the distance it fell. And of course one would like to test the board by jumping up and down on it at a low altitude because doing this is an all around terrible idea. The only other thing I can think of is to get a pin to prick it to let the water out, though if Alex says that counts as bursting then you would have to untie it yourself which may not be feasible. Once it has been emptied of water you will need to grab a long rope and tie it around something large enough to hold the balloon down on the highest point of the mechanism making sure most of the weight of the balloon would normally make it fall down if normally, something like a 2x4. From it’s highest distance you simply pull the rope and let the deflated balloon fall and it will have fallen from a higher point than the other 3 contestants. I’m not sure I phrased that as well as I could of, but mobile let’s me see very little of my comment :/

[@ravenshade266]

I do believe one of the specific rules was that you can’t damage it or let any water out of it.

[@maggsta3132]

that was the best series of the bunch so far

[@tobyk8125]

Amazing how we can differ. For me, it was the hardest one to get through! Combination of the new COVID protocols and Daisy ruined it for me.

[@alazrabed]

Oh crap, it's already bursting at that height! - Shall we go higher? - Yep! Let's go higher!

[@LostinYTblackhole]

That one lady wasn’t wrong about seeing divers jump into small amount of water. We have a diver in the US, goes by professor Splash, that dives into 12in(30cm) of water from 34ft(10.3m)

[@cyanmanta]

I'm picturing people on the other side of the fence playing golf. They're about to swing and then suddenly they hear Johnny screaming HIGH HEELS.

[@jmcoloma1083]

The thing is: "they" put the balloon in a cushion and that made it tecnically is some centimeters higher than the others

[@enderjammer5035]

I just thought of something, it never said that it had to hit the ground, it said drop it from the highest height... If you crank it up to the top, and then get under it preferably close to where it drops, you can catch it before it gains a lot of momentum.

[@TomFromMars]

Worst case scenario, you just call the tree wizard, he will just make up a balloon for you. And then double check it.

[@narcant]

Texan here, its so funny that i have absolutely no idea what cliff diving into 30cm of water is.

[@gerghghherb880]

They seem to be measuring just the height from which it is dropped, not how far it falls, so they could have in theory just got up to the same height as it and caught it as soon as it started to fall

[@maxdecphoenix]

As someone who lives in the 'deep south of america', can confirm about the water thing. Honestly though, I don't know how it was atributed to us, maybe that's just where she first saw it, but I remember seeing it in old walt disney movies and the random cartoon in general. I thought it was like a world-known circus act.

[@joehughes5177]

On the drop to the dustbin, you must subtract the height of the material in the bin which was the end of that fall. That there was a secondary fall is irrelevant

[@S2isDrawingDead]

Katherine should have outright won the task. Since her balloon was inside something it was higher off the ground than Johnny and Daisy's that were directly on the lift. So it fell from a *slightly* greater height

[@pinoyguy75]

I was shocked at the bricks one until they revealed they were down lol

[@cannibalbananas]

In Daisy's defense, Bug's Bunny taught me it was common for circuses to have people dive into small cups of water. Never seen it happen irl tho

[@mattfenaroli1130]

I love that they're making fun of Daisy for the shallow diving. saying she's crazy and its completely insane..... Welp... In America, we do have shallow diving. And it is indeed insane

[@louiecornish8163]

There's a typo in the video title and description

[@helensymonds6622]

One of my favourites to rewatch.💙🎈

[@nathancooley8459]

Am from Louisiana. Can confirm I have paid to see a man jump from a crane into a kiddie pool without dying

[@MoNk3y8oN3]

Katherine says we because she's talking to herself 🤣 adorable Also the small pool thing was totally real

[@ConstantChaos1]

The high dive into a kiddie pool is legit, its an advanced bellyflop technique, you might break your toes tho

[@whateverppl1229]

7:35 yeah but they dont belly flop like the bloon would be and at terminal velocity, water is just like concrete because it doesn't compress when you fall high enough.

[@billyeveryteen7328]

Every time I watch this, I forget about their incredulity towards Daisy's comment about diving in America. It's one of those really bizarre circus/carnival traditions I assumed was either common elsewhere, or at least reasonably well known, like motorcycle stunt jumping.

[@leeks1408]

If Joe Wilkinson was doing this task you know he’d be saying “raise the pissing winch”. 😆

[@hillsonn]

As an American, I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone way down in the deep south jump off a very high platform into 10 inches of water.

[@KyuuTomoyaki]

I would have attached a bag or something to the winch and then raised it to its maximum height, so that when it was released, the balloon only dropped like a foot and ended up safely in the attached bag. For those of you who think this wouldn't win "cause it only fell one foot," the task was not "have it fall the farthest without breaking." All that is required is that it be dropped from the greatest height without it bursting; it doesn't say anything about how far it has to travel. Hell, this could have been done inside a helicopter or an airplane: hold it in your hand and drop it onto your lap. You dropped it from 30,000 feet and it didn't break.

[@lethal_trap2]

Huh, seems like none of them dropped the water balloon from any height. Except after the time was up and he tripped going up the steps.

[@aidanmoran12]

one of my favourites

[@ajrod2005]

As a person from the states jumping into a very small tub or pool from a high platform is a thing and people do pay to see it usually at like a fair or something like that.

[@fionnaduncan8735]

Katherine's fell furthest as it landed on the ground whereas the others landed in the tub which was on legs.

[@PandaSquared]

The task said drop it from the furthest height, not "have the longest drop". They all dropped it from the maximum height.

[@kurtsudheim825]

@@PandaSquared & height is distance from the ground, which is where they were measuring from. By your logic they could've such a net under it & it only dropped 0.5m. would your height change depending whether you're at sea level or in a plane? But ya, it's task master rules, he decides, what's fair & not. Also, with her thinking of the pool, it was only cause they didn't have those plastic pools (10 min), si effect would've been the same

[@PandaSquared]

@@kurtsudheim825 Bro, they're dropping it from the exact same spot for each person, no need to bring hypotheticals into the mix. And yes, I absolutely would've allowed a net placed directly under the dropper if I were the Taskmaster.

[@HeyLetsDoAThing]

@@kurtsudheim825 Their logic is correct. Rules as written, you could have put a net right under it to catch it, so long as it was raised up as high as possible.

[@icturner23]

@@PandaSquared Katherine’s was dropped from higher up, though, as it was at 7.5 metres plus half the thickness of a cushion.

[@segevstormlord3713]

My pre-watch thinking: "It says to drop it from the highest height possible without bursting. It doesn't say it has to fall all the way to the ground. I would arrange for something to be right under it to catch it. Myself, if the rules don't forbid it. Then I'd carefully carry it down."

[@JHennyXIII]

Right! Or tie it to the tower to accomplish the same short free fall

[@timmyg1270]

"we" hear you - I thought Katherine should have won as her balloon ended "closest" to the ground when it hopped out of the bath

[@randomassjellyfish]

Pretty much what I was thinking after hearing the rules. We might share the same braincell

[@BioYuGi]

The trick I think with this one is the challenge is 'drop it from the tallest height.' Not 'drop it the furthest distance', since the second player had a rather sizable trash can stop its descent first. The trick here then is to build your padding literally as high as you can go, so the balloon doesn't have far to go.

[@onlyriders3896]

You do know that it's height

[@aporifera]

If you can put the balloon in a pillow, you can attach it to a parachute

[@thoughtgaming492]

I’m surprised nobody just had someone else remove water from the balloon and then drop it from max height.

[@jwlarocque]

It was explicitly forbidden by the task to remove water from the balloon.

[@Keltix1991]

@@jwlarocque The rules were, "YOU may not damage the water balloon or remove any water from it." Having someone else remove the water would be valid within that wording.

[@thoughtgaming492]

@@jwlarocque As others stated, having others remove the water from the baloon for you is perfectly valid in this challenge. Would have been an easy max height drop.

[@ARVash]

As a southerner I can confidently say I haven't seen it, but also that it wouldn't surprise me.

[@blargo]

Tie a piece of string to balloon, run it over the back of the crane, let it play out slowly when the doors open.

[@RyansRandomRants]

It didn't say it had to fall the greatest distance, so just set it max height and catch it after a short fall

[@hory-portier]

What came to my mind, and what I would probably do, would be to rise it to the maximum and then go up the leader under it and try to catch it as it falls. The problem is that the leader would be relatively short compared to the max height of the thingie... I would probably have second thoughts at that time and still enough time to consider alternative solutions, but I would definitely not resign from the max height. Hmm... maybe I would put something on the platform under the balloon, so it would be falling from the height above the maximum platform height... Not sure if I would have enough time to lower the platform again to do that...

[@als8518]

surprised no one just made alex crank it up and down the whole time

[@screes620]

I'm surprised no one thought to just get on a ladder under it and catch it. The rules only stated it had to be dropped, not that it had to travel the entire distance it was dropped from.

[@DragOnDani01]

Drop the water balloon from the greatest height. Nothing states that it's landing point should be on the ground. Build a cushion tower and it's lands from a great height on a tower that's also on a great height

[@JayForeman]

(Psst! You spelt "hight" wrong.)

[@jimmehjimmson8876]

Did not expect to find an absolute legend in these comments.

[@OverWims]

I would've done max height but also put a sheet of wood or something under the entire contraption therefore making the balloon ever so slightly higher than anyone else who did max height.

[@MichaelBranson6]

This was so strangely satisfying to watch, usually we're all in too see failures lol

[@GoldenSamus]

"Hight" xD

[@DokkaChapman]

See, I would have found a bedsheet, got myself and three crewmembers to hold a corner each and basically do a fireman's jump kinda thing, making sure to have enough slack so it wouldn't bounce.

[@kurtsudheim825]

Idk if you couldn't got the crew for this one

[@DokkaChapman]

@@kurtsudheim825 Oh wait... the covid thing... well just make sure the bedsheet is larger than 2m in diameter lol.

[@gregorydillon9167]

I wonder if there was a tall ladder available. The task didn't say anything about how far the balloon travelled

[@COALEDasICE]

Fall height was irrelevant. Could just tie a bag under it. Tho it was way more fun to see theirs fall all the way without breaking

[@kurtsudheim825]

Hmm, different ideas, but the argument is then if you raise the floor, is the height still the same? I mean when you're at sea level vs in a plane, are you suddenly 3000m taller

[@COALEDasICE]

@@kurtsudheim825 you're over thinking it which is exactly what these challenges are designed for

[@snubb3d]

I'd get a ladder and catch the balloon. It doesn't say it needs to drop all the way to the ground, just needs to drop from the highest place