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Artist Frank Boelter has constructed a 9-metre paper boat from the stuff used to make Tetrabrik packs and is sailing it up the Elbe. The 37-year old artist came up with the idea one breakfast time, while he was sitting at his kitchen table fiddling with an empty milk carton, which he cut up and made into a scaled-down model. See how they built it after the jump.
A 1884-sq ft sheet of Tetrapak was folded to make the boat, which is almost 30 feet long and weighs 55 pounds. Named "Bis Ans Ende der Welt" or Until The End Of The World, the $217 boat took just two hours to construct, and Frank reckons it will survive forty days (and, I assume, forty nights) before it disintegrates into a soggy mass of sinkability. I wonder if he'll do a paper airplane next? [Spluch and Abendblatt through Google Translate]
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"I wonder if he'll do a paper airplane next?"
If he manages a paper airplane with jet engines, I'll be impressed.
There are so much cooler things he could've done with that sheep of tetrabrick loveliness.
Like folding a giant origami crane and riding it to work...
Amazing: just last week I asked my girlfriend if it would be possible to make a life-sized paper boat exactly like this. She shrugged and suggested I go and find out. I'm so happy I can just forward her this story...
He named it Until The End Of The World.
He should have named it, Until I Have To Pee And Standing On The Edge Cause It To Collapse.
But then he did wear a neon (deer hunter) orange life vest so he knows.
For those of you who had no clue like I did, Tetra Pak is the stuff that juice boxes are made out of.
Its like a one of those ideas you have when you are a kid. You tell your mom because you are excited and she says " Be realistic son. It can't be done."
Thanks for crushing my dreams once again mom!
An airplane would be amazing!
I was actually thinking of making this but the guy beat me to it.
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