We should go back to filling them with hydrogen.
What could go wrong?
I mean other than that…
Would make for more exciting birthday parties.
Seems more like a gender reveal party sort of thing.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/23/us/gender-reveal-explosion-new-hampshire-trnd/index.html
The alternative is to use extremely limited quantities of gas crucial for MRIs, chip making, metallurgy, and a few other high tech applications. But hey, pretty balloons.
(The store was just out of helium.)
Only a matter of time before they can’t get any because we wasted such a limited resource on vanity instead of the pursuit of science.
Am I missing a joke? Airships used hydrogen gas
Specific airships made by a specific country that had no access to helium…
wasn’t that just the flammable lining?
When I was in school decades ago, my science teacher brought in a big balloon filled with hydrogen and lit the string on fire without telling us that it was filled with hydrogen.
I could feel the explosion in my bones. It was neat.
I’m not sure you could do that in schools today.
There will absolutely still be a customer that takes a balloon from behind the sign and asks for it to be filled up in the store.
They will demand it or else poor Kayla’lin 'da Leeigh Lynn Lee’s princess party will be ruined.
I think you just summoned an Elder God.
“I̡̖̝͔̯͌̄̈́ ̧̙̮̈̈́H̥̫̭͈̖̐̆̒̂̓̾A̼͚̘̦̼͂͌̇͒̏̌͝Ṽ̡̡͙͙͌́̽Ȩ̮̝̪̞͖̍͆̋͋̄̒͝ͅ ̳̙͝R̥͕̱̠̱̈̈́͜I͎͒͌̋͗̈̑͜͝S̨͙̻͍̺̟̾Ẹ̳̖̖̼̥̊̓̆Ǹ̡̳͍̏͒͛̉̃̀,̳̅̋͑ ̡̡̠̗͈́͑̌A̡̧̛̦͛̅̎̄͒͂Ṅ̨͕͈͍͎͆̑̕D̻̑̾̔̊̉͊̚ͅ ̧̳̙̳͗̈́͊͊̓͝Ḭ̻̗̻̥̙͉̀̒̂͛̈́ ̢̡̯͖̩̻͍͛D̰͔͇͉̪̆E̛̝̻͇͚̼̤͗̊̑̀͋͜M͕̯̠͎̳͌͛͐͒̋͑Ä̹̺̥̤́̓̾̕N̝͎̓̓̆͋͐D͇̺̮̠̏͊̌͐̍̚͠.͓̼̰̈́͛̈̈͊.̺͎͖̰͔̻̇̂̉̈́̌.̢̮̣͖̳͖̜́͌ ̫̰̗͋P͔͗̑͆O̳͛͌̂̎̀Ṅ̦̣͖̭Ḭ̱̖̊̂Ė̛̠̺̭̓̉Ś̞͔͍̠̟͓̦̿̈́̆”
The Eldritch God of over eccentric suburban moms is somehow more terrifying than anything Lovecraft came up with.
Fuck! How am I going to refuel this fusion reactor I brought back from the future? You can’t have shit these days.
May I suggest food waste from someone’s garbage can? I hear that works.
Just use hot air. Lots of that to go around.
I’m afraid it’s already in use by politicians.
I could have sworn they were hot air generators
It’s endlessly recycled.
I want a balloon full of uranium hexafluoride.
Meh, Argon is fine. Although what you said would be kind of funny.
why don’t we just bring a shitload back from saturn or something
Good thing I finally finished voice training and no longer need Helium to pass 👍
nice keming on that one
Don’t you mean “outlaw α-decay” instead?
I just work here, sir. I’m not a scientician.
We also need to end road work while were at it. Enough is enough!!
not only are these plastic bags shit and the people finding joy in in imbeciles, but helium doesnt grow on plants. it is limited.
Counterargument: everything is limited, and all joyful people are imbeciles to some extent
fair
Well, the half lives of the stuff that produces helium are generally above 500 million years so we’ll still be making more of it for a very long time, but the reserves we’ve found trapped in geologic formations certainly are limited. /s
Given its scarcity, helium should be more expensive, to the point where filling party balloons with it is decadent profligacy.
I mean it is expensive, it’s just the amount required for a balloon is insignificant and thus seems cheap.
As a diver who uses helium I can tell you it is, compared to air, so much more expensive they actually charge me for it (rather than just rolled into the cost of a dive) - to the sum of about $300 a dive - depending on depth.
What is helium used for when diving?
Reducing the amount of narcotic gases in your mix so you don’t act like a drunk idiot when in a life threatening situation.
Those narcotic gases are nitrogen and oxygen (although there’s only so little oxygen you can have…and also only so much!)
Edit: extra info: oxygen and nitrogen are narcotic at depth, nitrogen is better understood and so often we talk about nitrogen narcosis, which tends to start hitting people after about 30m, but each person reacts different and to different degrees at different deaths. I personally notice it at about 50m or so. If I was more relaxed while diving it’d probably hit me sooner.
and to different degrees at different deaths.
Was that supposed to say depths?
Yes. Yes it was.
I’ve seen enough of YouTuber, Scary Interesting, to believe that either word would work!
A fellow cave diving accident creepypasta enjoyer
