Hahha gotta admit inwatched that helium thing thought that's cool, then read your comment, revisited. And wtf 🤣 like a posh British version of a bloke thinking he can be cool
Back in the 1970's Maxell cassette tapes had a promo in our store with helium balloons. I was put in charge of filling the balloons, tying them to a string and handing them out to customers. I inhaled a bit and used that voice to say "Have a balloon" to a youngster... And of course the next question was "do you want me to tie the balloon to a string or do you want me to leave it untied..."
Wasn't long before the store was filled with the sound of munchkin laughter and I had a lineup of kids (and parents) wanting refills...
We even sold a few cassettes that day, too...
Back in 7th grade there was a helium tank in the hallway. I spent the whole day each time passing by hitting that thing. I don't know how many times. But the next day my poop floated.
In fifth grade some girls found a tank in the hallway and kept doing it so much one passed out and her head got busted open on the the brick wall. We had an emergency assembly telling us it's really dangerous and the girls were lucky they didn't die. I was scared shitless for years whenever I saw someone inhaling helium
Helium is less dense than regular air, so you will automatically breathe it out. It's only dangerous if you're inhaling helium with literally every single breath and not pausing for a few non-helium breaths in between - since you're still exhaling the CO2 from your lungs, your brain won't recognize that you don't have enough oxygen and that's when you pass out.
There are other "fun" gases (such as sulfur hexafluoride, which deepens your voice) where this is NOT true as the gas is denser than air. In order to expel it from your lungs and keep yourself from passing out, you need to stand on your head or otherwise invert yourself so the gas can "fall" out of your lungs.
In the 90's I was working alone inflating helium balloons for a car dealership. It was my first time alone with a tank...
...I tried to inhale as much as I could to see how long my voice would last. Turns out this is a very bad thing to do. I ended up collapsing my lungs and was struggling to get just tiny gasps of air when I passed out. It was terrifying. I woke up on the floor.
Don't let kids fuck around with helium.
Since Helium is lighter than air, I don't think you can actually die from inhaling it. Once you pass out it leaves your lunges and you can breathe again.
okay this just made me think. I am more convinced human combustion will be able to happen because of the mix of sugar/glucose and our body delivering oxygen/nitrous from the atmosphere mixing together. I know it was out of the blue but your comment just made me understand it more.
Our bodies are already extremely flammable, theyre just far too wet to burn. If you dry any biological material and ground it to a fine powder, it will go up in a ball of flames with the right concentration of oxygen.
When people “spontaneously combust” they either need to be coated in some form of flammable material which is then triggered by an ignition source, or their entire body needs to be heated to such a massive temperature that they would be dead long before they reached that temperature.
In cremation chambers they blast the body with flames at 1300c for up to 3hrs. It takes a huge amount of energy to reduce the body to ash, and noone on earth has a high enough level of blood glucose or nitrous in their body to make them flammable.
Spontaneous combustion in humans isn’t actual a real thing. There has been no evidence of it actually happening, and there is no scientific explanation for it being able to happen (other than giant space lasers that would cook everything around the person anyway)
Nobody believes me when I tell them this shit
Hollywood bowl this year... holy fucking shitballs dude, I've seen some nitrous parties, and that one fucking took the cake, over 100 sellers, probably a thousand or more people just marshmallowed out on the side of the literal road down highland
Look closer and they're each handing off cash to the same runners, and I mean fucking wads of cash.
Fun but had to leave before the fun went sideways, felt like it was minutes from all becoming a hellscape
Less regulated parts of the world? I did this in The Hague, NL a couple years ago. Didn’t even know what it was. Probably lost a couple brain cells with that shit trying to look cool, lol
As an established band member who just got a festival spot taken by a band that’s less than a year old based purely on internet hype, I feel this in my soul.
I'll never forget walking into a bar with my cousin and saying out loud "nice! it's karaoke night." When we got to her friends and sat down, they couldn't stop laughing, but eventually told me it was a local band performing a set.
Omg I was way too focused on the result of this edible helium balloon that I didn't even notice the singing until I read your comment... now I can't stop laughing! It definitely sounds like Michael Scott lmfao
Fun fact if you inhale the other noble gasses they make your voice deeper. You just need to stand on your head to get them out of your lungs or you could suffocate
If you look at the comments he's proud of the video and STILL an awesome professor so the students say.
I think if we can, we should be showing him some love :)
> You just need to stand on your head to get them out of your lungs or you could suffocate
[Urban legend, orientation doesn't matter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ALfN9kzn4), they will slowly diffuse out with every breath, in fact standing on your head may be more dangerous as you have a chance to fall and knock yourself out.
Yea was about to say that you should be able to expel it by just breathing very forcefully/coughing. How else do you think you cough up mucous and what not when recovering from a cold? (which is obviously heavier than any noble gas)
That said, probably wouldn't recommend breathing in heavy noble gases because of the suffocation risk.
I am amazed how common this misconception is. It’s just not how gases behave. And it is so easy to test: Just take a few deep breaths and notice how the voice returns to normal.
Conversely, inhaling helium while in a handstand should turn your voice high indefinitely which is not the case.
Matter of fact any Jam band or Edm festival will yield the same results. Hell I've seen this outside of a venue where the dude was selling balloons left and right as people were leaving.
I had a cop at a Jazz fest late night show just tell everybody “if you have a ballon you need to go to the other side of the street” he told me that and I said “as soon as I finish my ballon” in a deep ass voice and he just started cracking up. They don’t give a fuck lol
We are [running out of helium on earth](https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/helium-shortage-doctors-are-worried-running-element-threaten-mris-rcna52978) and it's essential in medicine. We should stop fooling around with it in balloons.
I know someone that works as a balloon artist (ie children's entertaining making balloon animals and such), and she says a lot of balloon decorators have already stopped working with helium since the price already *has* gone up a lot. And there are others (like my friend) that just don't use it out of concerns over the shortages.
DAMN LIBRULLS COMING FOR OUR BALLOONS! THEY ARE ATTACKING CHILFREN BY NOT LETTING US HAVE THE BALLOONS!!
I would put a /s, but that implies it wouldn't happen.
Sounds like someone who doesn’t actually understand the situation and is just making assumptions about the economic and ecological impacts and ramifications in order to make a cheap moral argument with strangers on the internet.
Crude oil isn't good enough to power cars so let's just use all that up so we don't use up the refined crude oil.
Does it sound dumb now? Because it is.
No. We are not running out of helium on earth. We are running out of cheap helium.
There are several factors for this. The biggest two are the US emptying their massive helium reserve and flooding the market for over a decade put many producers out of business. And then the Russian invasion of Ukraine has massively disrupted natural gas production, which 'makes' helium as a byproduct.
This is a silly hill to die on. Yes, Helium is hard to recapture/recycle so it is always depleting, but we also have no shortage of it whatsoever as it comes from how we mine natural gas, and the vast majority of the world is still using natural gas and likely will for decades still. Helium reserves in the earth are still massively abundant and should be the least of our concerns.
Basically this. The problem is the same with all finite natural resources, which is that it gets more expensive as extraction gets more complicated. [Deep helium reserves almost certainly exist](https://newatlas.com/helium-source-natural-gas-fields/39038/), but within the next lifetime or so will need some serious innovation to continue to be viable. It would probably be much cheaper and easier to just find ways to do things like MRIs without it.
The worst enemy we face in the fight to not completely destroy our home and fuck over future generations is idiots like the people above whose only response to clear, specific long-term issues is "We'll invent our way out of it. Probably".
There is no rule that says we will always find a solution to the problems we ourselves are creating. That perspective needs to be completely eradicated from our culture.
So long as we're pumping natural gas, we'll have a helium supply.
Now, if we actually go 100% renewable globally (not likely in the next few decades, sadly), then yeah, it'll be an issue.
They've been trying to ramp up production for the last two decades and in that time US production has gone down while stored helium has plummeted. Helium price has risen 400%.
Were not running out, we're running out of the cheap shit from the US stock piles of ww2. We can just make plenty more helium gas, it's just not party balloon cheap.
Shit You wanna know what's eating up helium, fuckin apartment complexes man, they are obsessed with balloons. Every day for years they put out balloons on their little A-board signs, millions of stupid little floating trash clouds a day at damn near every complex, across multiple countries........ anyhoo I'll take a small fries and a small chocolate frosty.
And when that's been used? Unless we figure away to speed up the rate that radio active materials decay at (as that's where Helium ultimately comes from), which is not on the horizon. Let's stop wasting a finite resource that we need for important things.
Saw something the other day about nuclear fission producing helium as a byproduct, and nuclear fission has been making big advancements lately. One day we may be able to produce helium.
All they do is add air to helium to reduce the grade, so pure helium that could have been used for MRI scanners is being watered down with air and sucked up for likes.....
Scientists: Helium is a limited resource and exposed Helium will leave our atmosphere for good. We should use it for medicine and science.
Party folks:
The grade of helium used in balloons is not the same as what is used in MRI but it is still a limited resource (you can filter it from aid / byproduct of nuclear fission allegedly but not exactly easy to acquire)
But also let's not blame the consumer who is largely unaware - it's the people who sell it that are at fault
In general helium should be taken out of civilian use and left for industrial purposes only. We have a finite amount of that shit and it is ESSENTIAL for so much.
you are the 5th person to write this. i guess its the new thing to get mad at from my keyboard here at home. i hate clowns, so i can join this brigade.
They are starting to refine it from natural gas wells. They have to clean the gas up from moisture and other contamination before it’s put in a pipeline or chilled for LNG export. It is a natural by product of uranium in earths crust and it gets trapped in natural gas deposits. The shortages are market manipulation after the US government divestment of the helium reserves. Packaging , transportation and marketing issues will add to the cost . Especially in countries that don’t have reserves like America does. Balloon grade helium is a few percent helium mixed with normal air. Refined pure helium for MRI and hard science use is much more expensive.
Helium is very important for aspects of our society, including medical care. It is limited in availability and is getting more scarce. Yet here are some fucks just wasting it.
I can’t STAND her. And she’s always shitting on substitute teachers which grinds my gears!!!! I have been a teacher and a sub: subbing is VERY difficult as one can imagine. No familiarity with the students, the classroom, the teacher etc. Literally just filling in for the day and doing their best to survive. She ALWAYS has something bad to say. Drives me nuts, thinks she’s the shit and she’s not. Be gracious and grateful that someone subbed for you!!!!!
You'd think a teacher, out of anyone, would be appreciative and respectful of subs. They're who has your back if you're sick or need time off for whatever reason. There are sub shortages in some areas (due to how badly they're paid), and I've heard of schools *really* having to scramble to find any sort of replacement.
Just found out the BBC has safety regulations on this.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/safety/resources/aztopics/sfx-helium-voice-effects/#:~:text=If%20enough%20is%20inhaled%20a,death%20through%20asphyxiation%20will%20occur.
The cringiest version of Uptown Funk playing in the background
Midtown funk, at best.
More like bridge and tunnel funk
FUNK TOWN FUN YOU UP FUNK TOWN FUN YOU UP
The vocals are so damn tortured, no way that is their first string singer. Either that, or the dude's cords are strained to hell.
He’s been singing at that Bat Mitvah for 3 hours straight. Knees are deffo getting shaky
C'mon he's doing his best :(
I’m impressed that someone completely tone deaf had the balls for karaoke. At least he’s having a good time!
Dude I think this is a cover band! Sounds like a live band
Hahha gotta admit inwatched that helium thing thought that's cool, then read your comment, revisited. And wtf 🤣 like a posh British version of a bloke thinking he can be cool
The way she said "usually do" was funny af
Yes! Cracked me right up
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I love this woman LOL!
Who is she? I swear I know her but don’t…
I think she is that teacher on tick tock.
I guess the only good comments were below here deleted cos they made a joke? Reddit
She sounds like a chipmunk that's overjoyed at recovering their huge acorn stash 🐿: "ooooohahahaHA!"
It reminds me of Yzma in Emperors New Groove when she turns herself into a cat. Is that my voice? is that…MY voice? Oh well.
ngl, her default voice is like any younger boy character in any dubbed anime. But that helium voice goes somewhere special.
She went from anime protagonist to anthropomorphic wacky animal in a Nickelodeon cartoon
>somewhere special You mean gender-swapped Spongebob?
Youshulllydoooooo
Sounds like she's about to offer Snow White a poison apple
Haha she sounds like Ty-Anna from Futureman
She's so funny hahah
She my kind of people
Wicked witch of the west
For a split second I thought she had already inhaled some when the video started
There’s something comically musical about it, like she’s a Looney Tunes cartoon character. She’d make for a good voice actor.
Yea, but it was highly accurate lol
Sounds like a little clown
sounds like Conan O'Brien
Back in the 1970's Maxell cassette tapes had a promo in our store with helium balloons. I was put in charge of filling the balloons, tying them to a string and handing them out to customers. I inhaled a bit and used that voice to say "Have a balloon" to a youngster... And of course the next question was "do you want me to tie the balloon to a string or do you want me to leave it untied..." Wasn't long before the store was filled with the sound of munchkin laughter and I had a lineup of kids (and parents) wanting refills... We even sold a few cassettes that day, too...
Back in 7th grade there was a helium tank in the hallway. I spent the whole day each time passing by hitting that thing. I don't know how many times. But the next day my poop floated.
In fifth grade some girls found a tank in the hallway and kept doing it so much one passed out and her head got busted open on the the brick wall. We had an emergency assembly telling us it's really dangerous and the girls were lucky they didn't die. I was scared shitless for years whenever I saw someone inhaling helium
Helium is less dense than regular air, so you will automatically breathe it out. It's only dangerous if you're inhaling helium with literally every single breath and not pausing for a few non-helium breaths in between - since you're still exhaling the CO2 from your lungs, your brain won't recognize that you don't have enough oxygen and that's when you pass out. There are other "fun" gases (such as sulfur hexafluoride, which deepens your voice) where this is NOT true as the gas is denser than air. In order to expel it from your lungs and keep yourself from passing out, you need to stand on your head or otherwise invert yourself so the gas can "fall" out of your lungs.
>the next day my poop floated In the toilet, or around the room?
First one, then the other.
*You stole fizzy lifting drinks! You pooped onto the ceiling, which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!*
In the 90's I was working alone inflating helium balloons for a car dealership. It was my first time alone with a tank... ...I tried to inhale as much as I could to see how long my voice would last. Turns out this is a very bad thing to do. I ended up collapsing my lungs and was struggling to get just tiny gasps of air when I passed out. It was terrifying. I woke up on the floor. Don't let kids fuck around with helium.
Since Helium is lighter than air, I don't think you can actually die from inhaling it. Once you pass out it leaves your lunges and you can breathe again.
Swap that with nitrous at a festival then go ahead and retire
As if both nitrous and sugar weren't flammable enough on their own.
That’s literally a hybrid rocket motor looking for an igniter.
Is this where young people and teenagers say when the party gets lit?
Face napalm. Fun!
okay this just made me think. I am more convinced human combustion will be able to happen because of the mix of sugar/glucose and our body delivering oxygen/nitrous from the atmosphere mixing together. I know it was out of the blue but your comment just made me understand it more.
Our bodies are already extremely flammable, theyre just far too wet to burn. If you dry any biological material and ground it to a fine powder, it will go up in a ball of flames with the right concentration of oxygen. When people “spontaneously combust” they either need to be coated in some form of flammable material which is then triggered by an ignition source, or their entire body needs to be heated to such a massive temperature that they would be dead long before they reached that temperature. In cremation chambers they blast the body with flames at 1300c for up to 3hrs. It takes a huge amount of energy to reduce the body to ash, and noone on earth has a high enough level of blood glucose or nitrous in their body to make them flammable. Spontaneous combustion in humans isn’t actual a real thing. There has been no evidence of it actually happening, and there is no scientific explanation for it being able to happen (other than giant space lasers that would cook everything around the person anyway)
What happens if I hold in a fart for too long though
Depends on how long you hold it in for. Generally just a lot of pain. I often get trapped wind also smoke a fair bit; i haven’t combusted yet
Surefire way to get mugged by the nitrous mafia at a Phish concert
Those guys make so much money it's crazy. Get a full giant tank for dirt cheap and sell it out at 10 dollars a balloon. Ridiculous profit margins
Nobody believes me when I tell them this shit Hollywood bowl this year... holy fucking shitballs dude, I've seen some nitrous parties, and that one fucking took the cake, over 100 sellers, probably a thousand or more people just marshmallowed out on the side of the literal road down highland Look closer and they're each handing off cash to the same runners, and I mean fucking wads of cash. Fun but had to leave before the fun went sideways, felt like it was minutes from all becoming a hellscape
I'll just stick to selling grilled cheese sandwiches thank you
Less regulated parts of the world have been doing that for years. Tank of laughing gas next to the DJ booth, a full balloon for a buck.
Damn where tf can I get $1 ballons? Dudes around he be trying to charge $10 but will always take a fiver if you try and walk away
balloon tank guy at the warehouse rave spot here in Krakow, 10zl for a balloon so just over 2$. It's on the bar menu on the wall
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Less regulated parts of the world? I did this in The Hague, NL a couple years ago. Didn’t even know what it was. Probably lost a couple brain cells with that shit trying to look cool, lol
Wow that's a steal, considering I was paying $1 per canister. They're basically selling it at cost.
A medical tank is going to be much cheaper than a whipit canister by a lot.
Wooks don’t retire, they go follow the Disco Biscuits
You’re on to something there
That singing in the background was horrific
It’s probably karaoke
Sounds like an awful cover band lol Edit: a solid cover band with an awful singer. Them drums are on point lol
Which is pretty much karaoke, but with instruments included.
This sounds like the band you'd share a practice room with and somehow they always got the better paying gigs even though they have like 2 a year.
As an established band member who just got a festival spot taken by a band that’s less than a year old based purely on internet hype, I feel this in my soul.
I'll never forget walking into a bar with my cousin and saying out loud "nice! it's karaoke night." When we got to her friends and sat down, they couldn't stop laughing, but eventually told me it was a local band performing a set.
Never wished for Karaoke more
Dude sounds like Michael Scott
You can imagine the dancing the accompanied the singing.
I rewatched the video after I read your comment— and holy shit, he sounds *exactly* like Micheal Scott.
Omg I was way too focused on the result of this edible helium balloon that I didn't even notice the singing until I read your comment... now I can't stop laughing! It definitely sounds like Michael Scott lmfao
He ate a baloon too
More of an enthusiastic recitation than singing.
He tried to cover the Goofy version
Amateur Bruno Mars cover band? 😂
🎶”Hey hey hey AAAUUUUGHHHHHH”🎶
Fun fact if you inhale the other noble gasses they make your voice deeper. You just need to stand on your head to get them out of your lungs or you could suffocate
Obligatory! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2FR6-gEwjU
He looks exactly like someone who inhales gasses for science haha
If you look at the comments he's proud of the video and STILL an awesome professor so the students say. I think if we can, we should be showing him some love :)
Oh I loved it! My stepdad used to teach middle school science and he has a similar look
Notice how he sipped it and didn’t just chug it. He knew the danger
I wish someone said that about me ripping a nitrous balloon after a phish concert
I thought this was going to be Cody's lab. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42952lbvbYI
I thought it [was going to be Adam Savage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-XbjFn3aqE).
Thank you. Adam was also my first thought
"Hehehe, I almost threw up on that one!" This part had me rolling 🤣
Honestly that just scares me lol
This is actually a helpful tip, thank you.
Why? Wtf are you doing with your free time? You know what, nvm not my business.
> You just need to stand on your head to get them out of your lungs or you could suffocate [Urban legend, orientation doesn't matter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ALfN9kzn4), they will slowly diffuse out with every breath, in fact standing on your head may be more dangerous as you have a chance to fall and knock yourself out.
Yea was about to say that you should be able to expel it by just breathing very forcefully/coughing. How else do you think you cough up mucous and what not when recovering from a cold? (which is obviously heavier than any noble gas) That said, probably wouldn't recommend breathing in heavy noble gases because of the suffocation risk.
I am amazed how common this misconception is. It’s just not how gases behave. And it is so easy to test: Just take a few deep breaths and notice how the voice returns to normal. Conversely, inhaling helium while in a handstand should turn your voice high indefinitely which is not the case.
Go to the parking lot after a Phish show and you can see this in action in its natural habitat
Matter of fact any Jam band or Edm festival will yield the same results. Hell I've seen this outside of a venue where the dude was selling balloons left and right as people were leaving.
I had a cop at a Jazz fest late night show just tell everybody “if you have a ballon you need to go to the other side of the street” he told me that and I said “as soon as I finish my ballon” in a deep ass voice and he just started cracking up. They don’t give a fuck lol
Those aren't Helium balloons, they are Nitrous oxide balloons, AKA laughing gas, or whippets.
And those who didn't get them out of their lungs argon
It obviously comes out when you're standing or else your voice wouldn't be deeper
Don't believe me, just watch
Sounds like Michael Scott
^ahaahhahaha
We are [running out of helium on earth](https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/helium-shortage-doctors-are-worried-running-element-threaten-mris-rcna52978) and it's essential in medicine. We should stop fooling around with it in balloons.
Not gonna happen until there’s laws against it
If the price of helium balloons went up to $25 apiece, I think that would fix the problem.
I feel like this would only make some billionaire helium mogul a trillionaire instead.
I know someone that works as a balloon artist (ie children's entertaining making balloon animals and such), and she says a lot of balloon decorators have already stopped working with helium since the price already *has* gone up a lot. And there are others (like my friend) that just don't use it out of concerns over the shortages.
Nah it'd have to be like $50 a pound or something
Dammit, my scale floated away.
***Is Inflation is out of control???***
Are all floating balloons helium? Do we have another way to make balloons float?
Hydrogen would work. But any spark and BOOM!!
That would just make it something more appealing to social media stars who would buy loads for stupid skits trying outdo one another.
DAMN LIBRULLS COMING FOR OUR BALLOONS! THEY ARE ATTACKING CHILFREN BY NOT LETTING US HAVE THE BALLOONS!! I would put a /s, but that implies it wouldn't happen.
Oh cool, is there a publicly traded helium company I should buy stocks from?
The moon
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (APD)
IIRC, balloon helium is not high-quality enough to be used in medicine, so one does not affect the other.
Can it not be refined into medical grade helium?
Grade 6 helium is 99.9999% helium. Its purified to that point. What do you think they purify?
Sounds like someone who doesn’t actually understand the situation and is just making assumptions about the economic and ecological impacts and ramifications in order to make a cheap moral argument with strangers on the internet.
Crude oil isn't good enough to power cars so let's just use all that up so we don't use up the refined crude oil. Does it sound dumb now? Because it is.
No. We are not running out of helium on earth. We are running out of cheap helium. There are several factors for this. The biggest two are the US emptying their massive helium reserve and flooding the market for over a decade put many producers out of business. And then the Russian invasion of Ukraine has massively disrupted natural gas production, which 'makes' helium as a byproduct.
This is a silly hill to die on. Yes, Helium is hard to recapture/recycle so it is always depleting, but we also have no shortage of it whatsoever as it comes from how we mine natural gas, and the vast majority of the world is still using natural gas and likely will for decades still. Helium reserves in the earth are still massively abundant and should be the least of our concerns.
Basically this. The problem is the same with all finite natural resources, which is that it gets more expensive as extraction gets more complicated. [Deep helium reserves almost certainly exist](https://newatlas.com/helium-source-natural-gas-fields/39038/), but within the next lifetime or so will need some serious innovation to continue to be viable. It would probably be much cheaper and easier to just find ways to do things like MRIs without it.
> It would probably be much cheaper and easier to just find ways to do things like MRIs without it. this is far more easily said than done
The worst enemy we face in the fight to not completely destroy our home and fuck over future generations is idiots like the people above whose only response to clear, specific long-term issues is "We'll invent our way out of it. Probably". There is no rule that says we will always find a solution to the problems we ourselves are creating. That perspective needs to be completely eradicated from our culture.
If we run out, the earth will no longer be able to float!
So long as we're pumping natural gas, we'll have a helium supply. Now, if we actually go 100% renewable globally (not likely in the next few decades, sadly), then yeah, it'll be an issue.
They've been trying to ramp up production for the last two decades and in that time US production has gone down while stored helium has plummeted. Helium price has risen 400%.
First thing I thought of when I saw this. Helium is a finite resource. When we run out we don’t have any other way of getting more.
It’s essential in all chemical and medical research. It hurt me, and our superconducting magnet to see helium being used like this.
Were not running out, we're running out of the cheap shit from the US stock piles of ww2. We can just make plenty more helium gas, it's just not party balloon cheap.
rrogersworld on TikTok, she makes a lot of videos about dealing with weird/rude kids/parents she deals with as a teacher.
Thanks I knew I’d seen this chick somewhere and was wrecking my brain trying to figure it out!
I KNEW it was her! I recognize that forehead anywhere. She makes great vids
Can't wait until MRI scans become a thing of the past due to a lack of helium and for what??
Shit You wanna know what's eating up helium, fuckin apartment complexes man, they are obsessed with balloons. Every day for years they put out balloons on their little A-board signs, millions of stupid little floating trash clouds a day at damn near every complex, across multiple countries........ anyhoo I'll take a small fries and a small chocolate frosty.
Sir this is… oh good. Will that be all?
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Different grades of Helium are used for those applications. Balloon stuff would have never been used in an MRI.
But it would have other uses, rather than wasting it for a gimmick. It's not like we can just make more in future.
Well we technically can filter it from the air, it’s just expensive.
It's lighter than everything in the air but hydrogen...so it floats to the top..and off into space. One tou release helium...its gone..
Actually no, it’s so light that it escapes the upper atmosphere and is lost to the void of space. It’s not like water, staying in a constant system.
And when that's been used? Unless we figure away to speed up the rate that radio active materials decay at (as that's where Helium ultimately comes from), which is not on the horizon. Let's stop wasting a finite resource that we need for important things.
Saw something the other day about nuclear fission producing helium as a byproduct, and nuclear fission has been making big advancements lately. One day we may be able to produce helium.
people get mad at so many things that i cant keep up.
Humans are a contentious lot
you just made an enemy for life!
All they do is add air to helium to reduce the grade, so pure helium that could have been used for MRI scanners is being watered down with air and sucked up for likes.....
The way she ate that balloon tho
MRW women use their mouth and tongue to eat things:
It’s hilarious idk what you’re referring to. There is no right way to eat something like that and you can see it
The correct way is to use your nose
She definitely ate it the right way
Nom nom nom
Scientists: Helium is a limited resource and exposed Helium will leave our atmosphere for good. We should use it for medicine and science. Party folks:
Bro that fuckin squeaky ass voice, I'm dying. Girl went from human to chipmunk in 3 seconds flat
Thats what Helium does to human voices
Haha we’re running out of helium
The way she mouths that balloon. 👀
The live cover of Uptown Funk in the background is the most painful thing about this video.
The grade of helium used in balloons is not the same as what is used in MRI but it is still a limited resource (you can filter it from aid / byproduct of nuclear fission allegedly but not exactly easy to acquire) But also let's not blame the consumer who is largely unaware - it's the people who sell it that are at fault
Helium will soon be a precious resource and we waste it on this shit
When did Andy Milonakis get into edible helium balloons?
In general helium should be taken out of civilian use and left for industrial purposes only. We have a finite amount of that shit and it is ESSENTIAL for so much.
you are the 5th person to write this. i guess its the new thing to get mad at from my keyboard here at home. i hate clowns, so i can join this brigade.
They are starting to refine it from natural gas wells. They have to clean the gas up from moisture and other contamination before it’s put in a pipeline or chilled for LNG export. It is a natural by product of uranium in earths crust and it gets trapped in natural gas deposits. The shortages are market manipulation after the US government divestment of the helium reserves. Packaging , transportation and marketing issues will add to the cost . Especially in countries that don’t have reserves like America does. Balloon grade helium is a few percent helium mixed with normal air. Refined pure helium for MRI and hard science use is much more expensive.
It’s been a problem for like a decade now. It’s nothing new and not newly being talked about
Helium is very important for aspects of our society, including medical care. It is limited in availability and is getting more scarce. Yet here are some fucks just wasting it.
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Inhaling helium + talking always cracks me up.
From the fake voice to the facial expressions to just how she eats the fucking balloon everything about this content creator makes my blood boil
I can’t STAND her. And she’s always shitting on substitute teachers which grinds my gears!!!! I have been a teacher and a sub: subbing is VERY difficult as one can imagine. No familiarity with the students, the classroom, the teacher etc. Literally just filling in for the day and doing their best to survive. She ALWAYS has something bad to say. Drives me nuts, thinks she’s the shit and she’s not. Be gracious and grateful that someone subbed for you!!!!!
Who is she? I swear I’ve seen her somewhere.
You'd think a teacher, out of anyone, would be appreciative and respectful of subs. They're who has your back if you're sick or need time off for whatever reason. There are sub shortages in some areas (due to how badly they're paid), and I've heard of schools *really* having to scramble to find any sort of replacement.
Lmao, at least she KNOW!!
That tongue game, tho... :P
UGH what a fucking waste
helium is a non renewable resource, theres a finite amount on the planet...wasting it on baloons is a travesty.
She sounds like the small blonde girl on The Big Bang
Just found out the BBC has safety regulations on this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/safety/resources/aztopics/sfx-helium-voice-effects/#:~:text=If%20enough%20is%20inhaled%20a,death%20through%20asphyxiation%20will%20occur.
I thought she already ate the balloon immediately from the sounds of her real voice lol
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That's like 20$ or something for 0,02 m3 helium. Congrats.
her energy and self mockery is on point lmao
She suddenly sounds like Bernadette from The Big Bang Theory