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plastic bags filled with helium strapped to them
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Have you priced Helium lately??? I'm hearing like US$1k for a K bottle (250cf) of the UHP stuff....if they'll even sell it to you, due to supply constraints.
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travisd wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2026 7:58 am Have you priced Helium lately??? I'm hearing like US$1k for a K bottle (250cf) of the UHP stuff....if they'll even sell it to you, due to supply constraints.
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If our tubas are too light, can we do the same but with a bag of sulfur hexafluoride dragging along the ground?

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My helium-filled bags are holding up my car.
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I was going to say a gym membership, or maybe a smaller tuba, but silly me....
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bloke wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2026 7:43 am plastic bags filled with helium strapped to them
I take walks with my dogs near a golf course and I see players with remote controlled golf bags that follow them around the course.

What about a playing stand with a robot base?
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Mark wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2026 1:47 pm I take walks with my dogs near a golf course ...
BTW, the golf course is on one side of the path and this is on the other. Photo was taken yesterday.
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Mark wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2026 1:47 pm
bloke wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2026 7:43 am plastic bags filled with helium strapped to them
I take walks with my dogs near a golf course and I see players with remote controlled golf bags that follow them around the course.

What about a playing stand with a robot base?
Just get one of those humanoid robots which are already designed and built and have it standing there handing you stuff that you need right when you need it. Don't waste time designing and building something from scratch...
... and forget drones. They are too damn noisy to use in a concert or rehearsal. The not particularly noisy clicks and buzzes associated with a humanoid robot are no louder than people constantly getting up from their seats (sticking their nasty butts in others' faces) in the middles of pieces of music.
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Mark wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2026 1:56 pm
Mark wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2026 1:47 pm I take walks with my dogs near a golf course ...
BTW, the golf course is on one side of the path and this is on the other. Photo was taken yesterday.

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