Revelations

please use hydrogen and not helium if you do this.
Helium is a precious, essential, non-renewable resource that the world is actually running out of.
- Now I'm just imagining them coming back down, combusting, and people thinking the war of Armageddon has begun.
  
  Is this why I can't just go to the party store and buy hydrogen filled balloons?
  
  St Peter checked them at the gates and all got sent back
  
  Better yet, attach a small explosive to them so once they get enough attention and people think the rapture is coming they suddenly burst into flames and explode.
  That way the Christians really won't know what to think.
- That's something I find funny. The second most abundant element in the universe and we're running out of our supply.
  
  It's not a laughing matter. The world used to be He He He He He He He but soon there'll be no more He He He.
  
  Because we don't have spaceships to go out into the universe to collect it, so all we have is what has been trapped in deposits underground.
  and a lot of it has been wasted on stupid shit like party balloons, and the overwhelming majority of the population does not understand how critically important helium is to manufacturing and medicine.
  
  @stateelectrician @DubiousFart, the most abundant element in the universe, not renevable, is human stupidity
- You're right but the real advice is: just don't do this at all. These balloons pollute our oceans and forests.
  
  Fuck the ocean, everything in there is scary and dangerous, we should nuke the sharks. Mostly /s
- What could go wrong.
  
  Don't cover the sex dolls in what amounts to thermite and you should be fine.
  
  Some cathing fire would probably help sell it: those poor sinners didn't get in!
- Scarcity smarcity - do it so you can attach tiny timed fireworks to them, at the feet so they float upright and then EXPLODE at like 1000 feet
- Just release them far away from any power lines
- Eh? Can't we just pull it from the air?
  
  No, its literally lighter than air. it floats out into space, and it is not in a dense enough concentration where its possible to reharvest anyway.
  
  No, there's not enough in the atmosphere

Given the type of people that we are targeting here I think that helium blow-up dolls are are a bit of a waste, especially considering the scale that we would need to perform this on to actually make it somewhat believable. Better would be to use hydrogen, its soo much cheaper than helium, has better lift, and is not a limited resource. Along with that a custom order of human shaped and roughly human colored (with painted on clothes patterns) balloons would work better. Likely a lot cheaper if done at larger scales, blow up dolls are made of tougher material than your average balloon. This would also allow for the pursuit of more sustainable materials given that we are just sort of releasing this stuff into the sky.
There is also a matter of making it realistic. If we are limiting to maybe one city then its best to create some devices that automatically release them on timed schedules. load these up with a handful of people balloons each and let them release with increasing frequency throughout the day. Should be a bit more convincing and gets a bigger effect. For cleanup we already filled these guys with hydrogen, so why not just light them up. might make for a good effect and leave less waste to be examined, making it more difficult to prove that this is not a rapture event.
- You got it all tought out beforehand didn't you?
  
  Dude was waiting for this moment a long time!
- Sounds like a plan. I'm in

That bottom left picture is from the TV show "Six Feet Under." In the scene the helium filled blowup dolls get loos from the net holding them down. A woman sees the dolls flying by and assumes the rapture is happening. She runs out into the street yelling, "Take me Jesus!" And then gets hit by a car and dies.
- That one has to be my favorite death scene of the whole series. That show was sooo good...

Nono, use hydrogen and have ignitors on a timer or altitude switch.
- What a fresh sprog! Beautiful as always
- I look forward to your poems sprog!
  
  Eh, I'd be OK if novelty accounts were a reddit-only thing.

May god raputure them right into the power lines.
- Wrap them in tinfoil for maximum radar cross-section

You need to weigh the feet down, but I'm willing to help. Cheap shoes and duct tape should do the trick
- Save the money and waste, just tape some coins to the bottoms of the feet. The bottom doesn’t have to be that much heavier.
  
  You think coins are cheaper than stones?