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@@fallendown8828 the notion we know how to fully use helium for both technological importance to making our voices weird shows we’re smart. If we used it to only one of those uses, that’s dumb
@@maddrone7814 yeah we can also transver organs from one human to another or create AI or figure out evry single bone we have in our body these kinds of thinks really feels like we are super smart but over using an unsustainable sourced matarial for making our sound funny is pretty dum.
The answer to the fermi paradox! When aliens on other planets finally figure out how to make a warp drive they learn they need helium but used it all up on Gazoo's birthday party.
Won't run out any time soon but it's about to get really expensive (same reason xenon is $40,000 a gallon, it's rare) when you have to go to Jupiter to get it (10% of the whole planet is helium = the sun will die before we use all that) and then separate it from hydrogen or wait to use the helium waste from fusion power plants.
Breathing helium is said to be a relatively painless way to commit suicide. Plastic bag over the head taped around the neck with a party balloon helium canister filling up the bag. I saw the investigation photos of a guy at a hotel who did this. But if you are saved before passing away, you may initially speak with a very high voice.
Start producing helium artificially via alpha decay. That's where all the helium on Earth came from to begin with. It would be one solution to radioactive waste - contain the alpha emitters and use them to produce helium. That's only a fraction of radioactive waste, and it would not be a solution to the waste problem, but every bit helps. There is certainly NOT a shortage of alpha emitters.
I have an easy fix to the problem: 1)Use a lot of radioactive material in any way what so ever (make sure it's alpha+) 2)Catch all of the radiation 3)Now you have a fuckton of of helium. 4) Profit. I can't see any possible flaws in this method at all/s
We won’t run out of helium, we have a supply that we’re depleting and we just don’t want to mine more but there’s basically a limitless amount of helium in the crust
6:10. Nuclear fusion plants. Really? I’d love for you to tell me more about how they will run on helium and create no radiation. You’ll give us a video demonstration, right?
So the price of helium goes up, we start searching for alternatives, invest in research on ways to use less helium, and divert production towards less helium intensive products. It's an issue but not a crisis.
We really should just ban the use of party balloons, and only allow helium to be used for MRI machines, semiconductor manufacturing, helium welding, airships, etc.
The atmosphere of Venus is rich in helium 3 and hydrogen. It would be more practical to look to our neighbor planet with similar gravity to earth; rather than a round trip to Jupiter or Saturn. Minus the crushing gravity.
Just had a random thought... What would happen and how would it happen if we put ourselves into an ice age. This sounds mental now ive written it ahaha
We don't care how much spam CuriosityStream, Skill Share, MagellanTV or Nebula or whatever they try to shove down our throats, we're not buying or paying them shit. Ever.
You should not have shown hot air balloons when you talked about one thing helium being used for is balloons. Most people would understand that hot air balloons do not use helium but there are some that would take that as a correlation and think that hot air balloons use helium. It's just a minor thing
@@gjsyhcufax9091 Hot air balloons work by heating the air inside the balloon, so the air is less tense and thus "lighter" as the surrounding air. They don't use helium at all.
@@diedie865 Hydrogen often bonds with other atoms which weighs it down. Helium is one of the "noble gasses", which are notable because they don't bond with anything.
5:10 it’s weird that they would show a graph here without listing a source. It hardly takes much extra effort to add citations and it would significantly increase the video’s authority on the subject.
It’s so light it vents away from Earth; otherwise the rest of the vid wouldn’t mean anything, because even if the helium was used, it would still be in the atmosphere somewhere. It might be harder to extract, but still possible; however, it venting away to space is an irreversible loss.
@@Tzar1 In theory yes, in practice the time it would take for this to happen is so long that the Earth would be destroyed by something else first (most obviously the sun's red giant phase in about 5 billion years).
The real reason we are running out of helium is because anime girls are breathing all of them. Why do you think their voices are high pitched all the time?!
@@manuelroger1035 truth! And self-loathing, the need for a social class system, greed of resources, and disregard for almost everything else on the planet besides us.
I was surprised that he said it correctly at 6:47 ("cutter"), because he got it wrong the first time at 4:48 (kuh-TAR). EDIT 1: I should not have said that "kuh-TAR" is wrong, per se, only that it is a worse pronunciation than "cutter". There is no clear-cut "right" pronunciation in English. EDIT 2: Per later comments, he indeed said "cudder" the second time, which is also not a very good pronunciation. I should have listened better.
One thing! Just one thing! Please tell IT to me: WHY tf do I have so many fans even though no RU-vidr is unprettier than I am? WORLDWIDE!!!! WHY??? Tell me, dear fej
Everyone knows how big an olympic sized swimming pool is. It is clearly defined. I have no idea how I should picture how big the squared length lights travels in a vacuum during 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of caesium-133 divided by 299792458 is. That's just arbitrary nonsense some idiots decided to call a square metre. God bless Freedom Units.
@@cahinton. an Olympic swimming pool equals 2 500 000 liters. Multiply that by 400 000 swimming pools = 1e+12 liters. Or, in other words, 1 cubic kilometer. 1 cubic kilometer is fairly simple to imagine. 400 000 swimming pools is just gibberish
Love the videos. FYI: Hot air balloons (which were flying in the picture @2:51) use Propane and not helium. Gas balloons look very different than hot air balloons.
Lets go of a balloon today: *"Oh, no, there goes our balloon - Once sec, I'll buy 80 more on Amazon."* Lets go of a ballon in 40 years: *" NO! NOOOO! oh, NO! WHY!? WHY!? AHHH, (sobs), wwhhyy? WHY!?"*
I've wasted so much of the world's helium just to make my voice squeak. Well not anymore. As of today I am forming the You Intellects Against Helium Waste (YIAHW) and together we will end the waste of helium for the use of making our voices sound stupid. We will save the Earth from depletion of her precious helium.
You can't use the term "Rare earth element" (0:30) for helium because this expression refers to the lanthanoides (also called lanthanides) that is, elements 57 to 73, lanthanum to lutetium.
@@ANTSMR_Dango some people have other problems and they forget important things like eating, drinking and showering. If you don't need a reminder, that's great :)
The fact that people can afford to use it in party balloons, shows that there isn't a shortage. Supply and Demand, if helium starts becoming scarce, you won't be able to afford it in a party ballon. As it stands, natural gas production will get supply plentiful for generations.
Who else thought that the music in the background was from one of the early Assassin's Creed games? (maybe II or Brotherhood) The first few chords are the exact same.
I paused to come post this comment. I had to rewind because I swore I heard him say cutter for Qatar. lol Then I started questioning myself about it because I assume he may be smarter than me so he's probably right. Definitely kuh-taar.
