Video: Here's a Real House Being Lifted with Balloons, Like in Up

Cord Jefferson
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March 20, 2011 • 10:00 am PDT
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If you can't wait to see the entire premier episode of the National Geographic Channel's new show, How Hard Can It Be?, a MythBusters-like program in which scientists will try to replicate fantastical events, check out the clip above. In it, a group of scientists, engineers, and balloon pilots take a house weighing more than a ton into the air using only helium balloons, just like in the Disney film Up.

One of the lead scientist's feelings upon liftoff: "Incredulity."

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