[Request] What could be the approximate gas composition of the balloon to float like that?

Well to be fair it doesn’t float. It clearly falls. Most of the floating when it spins is probably just a Magnus effect. To analyze further it reaches the height of the guy on the wall and falls in about 3 seconds from there. The bounce off the wall messes it up a bit. So let’s call the gent 5ft 10”, he doesn’t look super tall. Regular gravity would make it fall in about 2 seconds in a vacuum. The slower fall rate is probably just the extra drag from air drag around the large sphere.

For reference a 8ft sphere with similar density to air would hit a terminal velocity of 23ft/s.

So likely it’s just regular air that fills it.

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