# hydrogen or helium filled innertubes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hydrogen-or-helium-filled-innertubes/152123>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 1, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hydrogen-or-helium-filled-innertubes/152123 "2003-02-01T17:40:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hydrogen-or-helium-filled-innertubes/152123/21 "2003-02-02T19:22:59Z")

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The Perfect Master has spoken of The lawnchair guy…

[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3\_131.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_131.html)

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hydrogen-or-helium-filled-innertubes/152123/22 "2003-02-02T19:32:36Z")

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I didn’t say that hydrogen isn’t potentially dangerous, just that it wasn’t a big deal _in the Hindenberg specifically_. I, too, have seen toy balloons of hydrogen ignited in demonstrations, and it’s not something I would want to be holding when it happened. But I see that my remarks might have been misleading, and I apologize.

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