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HOW HARD CAN IT BE?

Lift off!

It's not a bird, it's not a plane. It's a house, and it's flying across the sky.
(00:59)
An engineer's dream job

Meet an engineer who set up an experiment to find out how many balloons it takes to lift a house.
(01:09)
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Up, up and away!

Scientists send a house into flight with balloons.
Home Made Rocket

Will the team's home made rocket make it into space?
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ABOUT THE SHOW

How many balloons could lift up a house? How high could a rocket reach that's made only from material bought at a hardware store? Using a combo of hard science and innovative visuals the UK premiere of How Hard Can It Be? designs and performs these and other fun, jaw-dropping experiments.

After ten years of building wacky inventions, engineer Vin Marshall teams up with two of his oldest friends; mechanical engineer Paul Carson and inventor Eric Gocke, to build some of the zaniest engineering feats ever attempted.

Tackling everything from robo subs to homemade rockets, the daring trio stop at nothing to break records, push boundaries and capture imaginations with their mind-bending inventions.

Look out for attempts at record-breaking feats that have never been attempted before. For instance, the boffins take on the impossible task of making an entire house fly with a giant cluster of hel...