How much helium does it take to lift a person? 

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Love how he apologizes before he even uploads it. Like, he's saying sorry to his data pirates.

Apology not accepted. What compensation do I receive?

I think most viewers would assume it’s just part of the experience.

Probably because if you're not within a day's travel by rail to France you have to factor in "vacation to France". Still a cheaper way to float around than the $8000 2 hour flight on the civilian "vomit comet" doing parabolas though.

Not once in a lifetime if you have 120 Euros :)

@@DHealey 180 euroes:

@@torinlupo807 You go to far, sir or madam.

If it's a fantastic price for once in a lifetime, does that mean if you go again its a ripoff

Haha

My addiction to Helium is out of control, but... no one is taking my cries for help seriously.

@@In.Darkness xD

Thomas The AirShip

Blimplasty.

imagine how much it takes to lift you in your Vehicle🤔

😂

... which is why I asked if any Aeroplume customer's fallen asleep while in harness. Pity they don't dare take these flimsy things out of the hangar ...

What is a Jules Verne concept?

@@cartoonfantasy4541 Jules Verne is the father of science fiction.

@@cartoonfantasy4541 You know the old science fiction author who made such classics as "2000 Leagues under the Sea" or "Around the World in 80 Days".

@@cartoonfantasy4541 Jules Verne is a French writer and author, one of many references in French Literature. His writings were often based on scientific progress of the times (XIXth to XXth century). He wrote "Around The World in 80 Days", "Twenty-thousand Leagues Under The Sea" and the series "Voyages extraordinaires". And as a concept, it would be objects inspired by that era, kind of steampunk-like. Like the Nautilus for example.

Can't wait for Tom to visit Iraq to see whatever remains of Project Babylon EDIT: oh wait, French people. Is there a Frenchman who has invented a gun that can shoot people towards the moon yet?

Like anti-clickbait. Love it.

Daily dose of internet also kind of does this, can't think of anyone else though so you are right.

And i love it! Never liked a video so fast like this.

It is a welcome change from the long, drawn-out let downs.

But before we dive into that I would like to introduce to the sponsor of this video...

_Thy shall read the description_

imprecise words

@@makingmach7 even though he didn't get paid by them to fly the blimp, the video will pay for the expenses. So yes, he gets to have once in a lifetime experiences every week and gets paid for it.

@@outandabout259 👍

And now it’s his time off

Very easy to take out with AAA.

@@user2C47 Not for Londoners at the Start at wwI

What would he drop? A deuce?

The army would just slowly and joyfully paddle over to tell you new facts XD

Bruh 😂

i guess it's the difference between "i can fall from this height" and "I can fly this high". I for one also have a fear of heights, but strangely enough it's because i might try to jump when I'm high up, and the fear comes when you realize you can't fly.

I mean, on a mesh you're aware that you're standing on a lot of tiny cables, you recognize the fragility of what's holding you up even though the cables could probably support 10x more than you weigh without a problem. Meanwhile, the balloon feels relatively safe because it's so large.

Same reason the edge of buildings scares the hell out of me but I can ride a roller coaster that goes twice as high just fine. It's the falling, not the heights.

So much fear is just about a feeling of control.

among the other good replies I would like to add that the balloon has a cradle - the web that supports the entire body. That provides a sense of security. When standing upright there can be a sense of " potential instability ".

The French actually pioneered hot air ballooning right around that time! Montgolfier brothers in 1783 at Versailles! The French love their dirigeables.

These have been around for hundreds of years. 100s of different FREE flying machines hidden from the masses so they can charge us for fuel and garbage polluting ways of travel. It's all about money.

From the website: Flights at Écausseville suspended until further notice (helium crisis) I think w3 caught this too late

You meant "of our dreams"

Have you heard about the helium shortage? It's only gotten worse with inflation.

@@In.Darkness Thanks dad.

"Babe what are you thinking about?" Tom Scott "Brb going to The Aéroplume, France." *leaves*

@@In.Darkness We need to use hydrogen for blimps. It can be just as safe. And/or somehow repurpose ITER to make helium!

I also liked the colour of his shirt.

The instructor was great, I enjoyed listening to him. He had great explanations. Thanks instructor guy, you added a lot to this video 👍

He actually knew the physics of it too, not just someone who is repeating instructions, someone that actually understands what's going on.

In his second language, too! I can't explain aerodynamics in English and I've been speaking it since birth

Lovely accent too, I could listen to his instructions all day!

You're gonna make one, aren't you

Build one with rc propellers so you can use it outside

make it but give it flamethrowers

A wild Furze appears

@@bingus2550 He'd defo use Hydrogen :D

He has transcended clickbait, he gave it away so quick you feel compelled to stay just to hear more :D

Lmfao exactly. Love that about him

Refreshing, isn't it.

he has confidence that the rest of his video is enough to keep us interested, so he doesn't feel the need to string us along..

yep theres a sizeable amount of good quality youtubers that practice ethical clickbait. there's even adam neely who puts the answers to the clickbait title, in the thumbnail, which is hilarious and awesome

From the website: Flights at Écausseville suspended until further notice (helium crisis)

id imagine on the neck as well

Thank you for sharing :)

Imagine flying in tropical winds in it

Wow! Does it feel like you're a bird? xD

Or in a hurricane

Apart from moving backwards yes

@@robinlove6981 Ahhh but, fish CAN swim backwards using their pectoral fins. Puffer fish swim using their pectorals nearly all the time, only flicking the caudal for a rapid burst of speed when necessary. Many Cichlids also use their pectorals to reverse out of narrow spaces or to back away from another cichlid during confrontations.

flippers might be able to get some forward speed too

...Uh. Overly obvious.

water and air are both fluids that share the same basic properties

i think that the main thing is that it's you that is making the blimp move, with your own hands. in a plane you're just pulling, pushing and pressing different instruments

it's similar to indoor skydiving in that way, though this is surprisingly much cheaper (unless you account for trave prices I suppose)

I noticed his face as well. He was having a blast.

@@tegxi safer too

I fly paramotors, and the draw to that is often times the freedom and closeness to flying like a bird. It is far closer to bird-like flight when compared to planes. This is another level

IKR If he teach faster Tom probably would cut the weight and break the roof then fly away 🤣

He probably has to deal with people having panic attacks 2 seconds after leaving the ground

It`s called being French.

5:04 "Kilogram - De igher u arr, De otter et es."

@@Cantfindaname917 The most French sounding sentence ever uttered.

@Steve D If you listened to the instructor you would have heard that they are aware of the limited nature of helium and their efforts not to waste it while still being able to do what they do.

@Steve D Like filling party balloons? I'm joking but i guess a lot more gets wasted at Disney parks. We can excuse this use.

@@maxsnts and given how they are reused its far more effective than most common uses of helium, which are (very often) a single use time thing

@@maxsnts the biggest consumer of helium is the macys parade

@@theflash95 just because they are trying to be efficient doesn’t mean it isn’t wasting rare elements

The air whales are always in search of freedom.

You know thats actually a great SCP idea in the making

STOP HIM HES MAKING A BREAK FOR THE DOOR!!! OH GOD HES FLOATING AWAY OMG JOHNNY NOOOOOO

Yah, used for really important things like mris no?!

I gotta say I ended up doing a 25 page research paper on it in high school and spent the entire year studying/researching that. Suffice it to say we are not ‘running out’ there is still plenty of helium out there it’s just about the economics surrounding it being different in a lot of ways that has driven the price up over the past 20 years or so. It’s a lot like oil or natural gas (considering you often find helium where you find natural gas) where everyone says we are running out when in reality there is plenty just the current reserves of what is currently economical is being depleted. The helium situation is actually significantly more complicated though since it’s usually just extracted as a byproduct then as something people specifically target.

they found a bunch more.

@@Summergch these blimp guy us etheir helium very efficiently. I wouldn't be surprised if they dont just vent it but recycle it at the end of the season

even if the 70k liters aren't 100% helium anymore, they might still be able to pass them forward as a "low quality" supply of helium, for party balloons and whatnot?

You want ANOTHER reason? (grin)

Those jokes float outside my tastes

That blimp will kill you, it killed Ross 😢

...."bigger one can carry up to 90 kilograms".... not for me then 😒

@@mrbeeoutdoors3213 Another motivator to lose weight?

No but same this is incredible!

Yep

It's not that overbooked at all - and it's right behind Normandy's Utah Beach, in Écausseville.

I wonder the size difference if it was pressurised

@@scoopet I don't think pressurizing the balloon would change the size or lifting capacity - because it's all about the volume of air displaced right? If you add more helium inside the same size envelope, you're still displacing the same amount of air but your balloon now weighs slightly more because of the extra helium. So net reduction in lift. I do wonder if it would help with environmental air infiltrating the balloon though.

@@noahorr3480 Also wouldn't pressurized balloon make the gas inside heavier (being denser and all)? That's even less lift

The balloon is pressurized. The fabric can not support itself. It's about 0.2 psi, so they call it unpressurized.

@@noahorr3480 surely you will get more lift if the balloon was smaller and a more sturdy material but with the same amount of helium in it?

If you ever have the opportunity to go, Bobby, I would love a video of you experiencing this! I can already imagine the punny fun you'd have. 😄

You could even make a sculpture of yourself in one of the aeroplumes out of WEWD

Wow! Really cool to see you here I can imagine you watching this and just saying: "I wawnt to dew thayut" XD

Me too. But I would need two of these blimps. Oh, they say they have one for 270 kg. Perfect size for me!

I want that!

And he didn't beg viewers to hit the bell button to subsribe! You get the answer immediately.

And he's been making videos like these weekly for almost 10 years. People who say that you have to have other things for 'engagement' have no excuse

gotta enjoy it meanwhile it lasts!

If we simply strip our atmosphere by around 50% helium flight will become a lot more viable and less wasteful

@@ernstschmidt4725 There are much more important uses for the helium than frivolous pursuits like putting it in balloons or doing silly things like this video.

We can make more right

@@Lagmeister12382 There are much more important uses for your time than frivolous correction of silly strangers in the internet.

Literally yesterday I was in a card factory shop in the UK and saw a sign to say they had run out of helium due to shortages and couldn't fill a party balloon! Would love to do this and a great price, way cheaper than if I'd tried to get 70,000 litres at UK card shop prices assuming they had any!

Stealing helium from the sun? Now there's an idea for a mythical heist!

@@Gillsing Let's hope it won't retaliate.

​@@Drabkikker Uranus is a far easier source. A nuclear powered flying atmospheric liquefaction facility launching nuclear cargo rockets could get helium back to earth from there with clever application of the technology we have now (almost*). The surface gravity is actually slightly lower than Earth, and the methane can be processed into carbon fibres and plastics. The delta-v to get off the surface is about twice that of getting off earth, but the hydrogen available suits a nuclear engine well, and plastic fuel tanks can be disposable (or even fed through the engine). *A reusable heat shield that can survive entering from orbit around Uranus is beyond us currently, but with the amount of hydrogen available bleed cooling should be able to manage it.

Try it with hydrogen, what could go wrong...

the guy stood on a flying plane. this is nothing

The human brain is weird!

i;ll second the "human brain is weird" answer. I've been skydiving. when you sat in the plane, looking out a window, yhea your high, but it doesnt feel dangerous. then, your stood in the doorway, and looking at the same drop, but without a sheet of glass in the way, sends you all sorts of danger signals and it takes a serious, deliberate mental effort to work past those. but 10 seconds later, when your out of the plane and under canopy? you dont feel unsafe anymore, your sat in a harness and the "danger" feels are gone again. id imagine its something similar. the albert hall felt unsafe because he had no harness or anything to catch him (he didnt need it, but his brain wanted it anyway). in this, he can feel he's lying in supporting straps, safe and secure....also you start at very low altitude which might help ease the brain into the situtation.

@@tompw3141 When I was 11, I went on a school trip to an activities place for a few days on the Isle of Wight. They had rock climbing walls there, and I flatout refused to do it as I wasn't fond of heights (still not really). I did, however, do abseiling on walls of the same height a couple times and thoroughly enjoyed it. I still won't do rock climbing, but I'd do abseiling again, and I've wanted to do skydiving for a while. The brain is odd.

@@xerxeskingofking it also helps that he is somewhat in controle of the blimp.

Air whale......🤣

Wailord

@@latro5002 Skitty

I hope this is a joke

​@@tejas238 Why would it be a joke?

For 60 euros this is a steal!!

Then do it quick, because helium is leaving the atmosphere and will be gone in 15 years during this time the prices will go up significantly.

That's actually completely affordable. I was expecting much more than that

Honestly, for me, it is the 90 kg limit... and it is in France.

@@jimdennis2451 yup 90kg limit puts me out of the running...

Don't forget the physics nerds like me who calculated to answer before watching the video, and then watched the video anyway.

@@JoshSmith-db2of 🙏

I belive he is, in his how to be popular on the internet series he looked at that i think. Quite interesting and I'd imagine a large part of his thinking about videos

He just does such a great job of finding things worth documenting and recording them in an informative and interesting way

He's a major part of history from his two videos on voting machines alone.

All it will take is one massive solar flare to hit the earth to completely wipe out all electronics and data

@@jamiehughes5573 One can only hope. Maybe then Facebook would go away and people could get back to minding their own business.

Amazing or terrifying OR BOTH. 😳

Inventor, artist, and *GERMAN*

@@hundredfireify Which wasnt considered an artist nor an Inventor in Austria :D

3:45😂😂

Incentive to *not* lose weight: pretend to be a blimp all day long!

I would rather gain muscle than pretend to be a blimp.

​@@FrietjeOorlog Always be the blimp you wanna be !

nice 👍

I understood that reference

This was a triumph.

Good one!

After all this daredevil stuff he's done, it's amazing he's... 😎 Still Alive

If you can, I know some swimming pools have "aqua-gym"-like activities for people in wheelchair. Not as fun as this, but still nice.

Did you see the Fly With Geese episode? That looks awesome too!

So long as you would be physically capable of getting into the blimp harness, even if you need assistance, and your arms work, I guess youd be able to take one of these helium balloon rides. Then you, a mostly-wheelchair-bound individual, would have had an experience most of us with two perfectly good legs have never had, flight.

it would be so cool to do this, right?

@@benoitbvg2888 Floats for the legs let you swim with upper body Australian crawl, breast stroke, or butterfly.

and put out a popular video about it encouraging others to do the same. But no matter He is only used for party balloons, silly voices and MRI machines.

Well I'd argue that this type of usage if done right actually uses (or loses I should say) very little hellium.

The alternative is hydrogen

And I love it 😂

No because in most instances he doesn't want a mob of internet tourists swamping some little corner of the world that happens to have something interesting to see, like this neat blimp hangar in Northern France in a quiet little village of 100 which is about 20 minutes from where I was born :D

Yesss! I would love to watch that

@@Soken50 But it would be like a 10 minute videos with about a hundred places so it will be an even distribution of people Some popular might get more people but it should be relatively even.

Every time I watch a video that really interests me (like this one) I put it in "Want to Go" on Google Maps, like that when there are enough spots (from Tom and others) I can organize a trip there.

I just want to sit in a cavern filled with radioactive gas. Is that too much to ask?

very honest

@@firmanawd 😂😂 imagine if all politicians were like this honest down to earth guy.

@@Scientist_Albert_Einstein Marcon must go

I've had the same dreams, of flying by myself.

look up wingsuit base jumping

Me, too! And the way it looks in the video seems exactly right for the way I remember it! Also I can absolutely see this as how people get around on some future planet of ours. Incredible

Seems Tom has a lot more trust in Fluid Dynamics than Material Sciences ^^'

The illusion of control is one helluva thing.

It’s the perspective, mentally, Tom is flying/floating here. On the corona he was standing over a great height. This doesn’t work for everyone but I know some people can pacify their fear of heights by thinking that they’re floating instead.

@@ragnkja A cubic meter is just a liter. And Tom said himself, it's about 1L per _gram,_ not kg.

@@Antigen__ ?? no, 1 cubic meter = 1000 litres, therefore yea, 1 cubic meter (1000 L) = 1 kg (1000 gram)

@@victorio60 Augh, you're right. My bad. Happens when you're fresh out of bed.

Same 😅

Learn math n science

It's been done... And that guy had to be rescued by helicopter, when the wind direction changed and he got blown out to sea.. 3 miles up! Apparently the BB gun he took with him jammed, or he dropped it or something, and he couldn't reduce his altitude.. Very close candidate for that years Darwin Award..

@@genelomas332 Perhaps but he also lived his life! I’d like to go out like that when I’m old

@@youngmoney9041 Don't let anyone stop you. That's a hell of a retirement plan!

ack ack.

Next vid: I learned how to launch a rocket

@@Cosmik60 I think that episode should be done after Tom learn how to burrow

Maybe with sci-fi mag-lev balloons, but that'd be a crap ton of precious helium for an entire international sporting community.

I see this becoming a tourist attraction on moons around the gas giants, like Titan, that would have the perfect atmosphere for these balloons to work in.

What is your reasoning behind your last statement?

@@Nofishnoclue I think it's because birds propel themselves up into the air. Whereas fish already float in water, they just controlling their vector.

@@alifaan595 Both are fluids, think of it that way.

I don’t think birds and fishes are any different. They both on fluid medium, just with different densities and weights. And both experience gravity. Did you know sharks would drown if they didn’t swim?

Some birds glide... Just saying. :)