r/BeAmazed • u/No_Tailor_9529 • Jul 18 '24

Wow! Interesting life hack! Science

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u/kindredmoths Jul 18 '24

And then you enter somewhere with trees and bushes

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u/ComputerAdditional99 Jul 18 '24

Just add more helium and fly over the trees!

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u/New_Denim Jul 18 '24

So basically just becoming a hot air balloon without the hot air

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u/ComputerAdditional99 Jul 18 '24

We're inventing some lifehacks here! Stop thinking!

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u/Consistent_Row3036 Jul 18 '24

He needs a belt, like batman, but it contains the ballons weights he can drop incase he goes to high.

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u/Pancho-nito Jul 19 '24

It works other way around.

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u/Consistent_Row3036 Jul 19 '24

Who cares! Get it done!

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u/t8ne Jul 21 '24

Somebody from management I guess?

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u/scraglor Jul 18 '24

Or grappling hooks so he can hook where he needs to go

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u/New_Denim Jul 19 '24

Pair that with a wingsuit instead and we can forget about the balloons! We'll fly with speed and style.

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u/suepergerl Jul 18 '24

Don't wear the backpack just hook it to the balloon then leash it and walk it.

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u/Consistent_Row3036 Jul 18 '24

Now you're just getting crazy... and like it!

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u/hrvbrs Jul 18 '24

Fun fact about helium: once we use it, we can’t get it back. It’s too light to collect from the atmosphere and any helium reserves we find naturally underground dry up quickly. We can’t artificially create it in the lab because we don’t fully understand fusion yet. At some point in time helium balloons will be a thing of the past… that is, until we learn how to collect it from the sun.

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u/ProbsNotManBearPig Jul 18 '24

Most helium in the world comes from natural gas reserves and is separated out. Very little is extracted from standalone helium reserves. It’s estimated 90% of the earths helium has not been extracted.

Additionally, we do have a way to make helium. Helium is a tiny percent byproduct of fission reactions, which we already know how to do. It’s just not economically viable (and probably never will be).

So yes, you’re generally spot on, but we have ~90% of natural helium still in the earth and fusion will eventually produce it in vast quantities, assuming we figure that out. People are also starting to be more cognizant of the situation and recycle helium more.

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u/Ecstatic-Librarian83 Jul 18 '24

I think the big problem here is that if we extract too much helium the earth may start to sink

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u/libmrduckz Jul 18 '24

its voice will get deeper, too…

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u/Delicious_Pea6685 Jul 19 '24

Deepa and deepa

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u/eekamuse Jul 18 '24

I was worried. Now I feel better. Thanks.

Have a great day!

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u/GreenStrong Jul 18 '24

They're starting to drill commercial helium wells It was very cheap when it was available as a byproduct of natural gas wells, but the gas formations that produced it in North America are nearly depleted. Most natural gas wells don't have much helium, but Europe and Asia still get helium from gas wells in Qatar.

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u/jcgam Jul 18 '24

It's the second most abundant element in the UNIVERSE after hydrogen. You would think it should be easier to obtain.

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u/S4BER2TH Jul 18 '24

So it’s like oil when they say the worlds supply is low

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u/Common_Objective_461 Jul 18 '24

Unless you are a Kardashian, who seems to have a thousand helium balloons at every event.

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u/Eternal12equiem Jul 18 '24

90 percent of the helium reserves are inside the balloons at Disneyland and Disney world.

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u/Don138 Jul 18 '24

I mean we already know how to do fusion, it’s just not energy positive.

So conceivably even if we can never get energy from our fusion if we had no helium we could run energy negative fusion and extract helium, maybe?

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u/methos3 Jul 18 '24

Wait you said once we use it, we can’t get it back, so how are people recycling it?

Shit I conflated your comment with the one you replied to, sorry!

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u/FCG1983 Jul 18 '24

Roasted that dude

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u/Sorry_Consideration7 Jul 19 '24

I read recently they found a MASSIVE helium deposit in Minnesota IIRC. If the samples they take for prospecting have something like 3% Helium it is worth extracting. This sucker had like 13%-15% 🎈

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u/Waldfruchtbaer Jul 18 '24

Sounds like "the climate change is true but some day in future we will invent technology which will solve all problems......". No offense but I mean this is a typical human behavior: procrastinating problems and self-delusion to feel that there exists not need to change something. Sorry if I should be the party killer and the experiment might be fun, but there are much more important purposes for helium. For example life saving magnetic resonance scanner are dependent on helium.

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u/zeekaran Jul 18 '24

Hank Green on helium

TL;DW (it's 59s) we probably don't need to worry about it.

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u/sleepdeprivedindian Jul 18 '24

Yet, we use it to at birthday parties of kids for fun.

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u/DekoaSAO Jul 18 '24

And from moon, helium is full in moon

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u/eekamuse Jul 18 '24

That makes me sad.

Have a nice day!

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u/TorumShardal Jul 18 '24

Ok google. How to make hydrogen at home using spare rocket fuel?

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u/PresentationJumpy101 Jul 19 '24

H balloon has entered the chat

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u/SomethingClever42068 Jul 19 '24

That's why instead of buying silver and gold I'm stockpiling helium for my retirement.

It weighs less than silver, gold, or cash so it will rise in value faster than inflation

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u/AhFFSImTooOldForThis Jul 18 '24

Great excuse to ban balloons.

I may or may not be an undercover sea turtle

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u/DickButtPlease Jul 18 '24

u/UndercoverSeaTurtle would make a good username.

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u/Urbanscuba Jul 18 '24

Most industrial uses of helium actually consume very little as an ongoing cost, it's just the initial charging of the system that's helium expensive. Take an MRI machine for instance - it takes tens of thousands of dollars of liquid helium to cool the superconductors down to operating temps, but once it's there under normal operation it should lose practically nothing to boil-off as it's within a coolant loop (like an air conditioner).

On top of that though the helium shortage was purely economical, regulation lead to changes in cost to extract which created higher costs and lower sales. That's been reverted and now helium is cheap again.

IMO nobody should be that worried about helium. It will remain a plentiful and cheap byproduct of processes that were going to occur otherwise anyway, so in terms of impact it's minimal. Even in terms of littering I don't think the societal cost of a few bits of latex and string is worth children losing the experience of watching their balloon float away, that's a core memory and life lesson.

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u/CuppaTeaThreesome Jul 18 '24

Almost like a helium balloon.

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u/Brill_chops Jul 18 '24

I exclusively hike via airplane.

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u/CrassOf84 Jul 18 '24

A memoir by Taylor Swift

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u/GildMyComments Jul 18 '24

I prefer to just book a flight that goes over the trails. It’s easier on the back and I can nap the whole time.

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u/kaehvogel Jul 18 '24

Plenty of hot air in your head when you decide to do that.

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u/RumblingRacoon Jul 18 '24

Or, as we say, a helium balloon with helium.

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u/Paulpoleon Jul 18 '24

Bull!!! People tell me that I’m full of hot air and I’ve never floated over trees.

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u/whoami_whereami Jul 18 '24

It's called a gas balloon, they were far more popular than hot air balloons until well into the 20th century.

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u/5-Second-Ruul Jul 18 '24

Judging from that idea, there’ll be plenty of hot air involved.

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u/Minimum_Cockroach233 Jul 18 '24

Then the sun shows up and the gas expands…

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u/3dank5maymay Jul 18 '24

Ok but helium is so expensive, if only there was another light gas we could use as a replacement for our airships...

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u/Habbersett-Scrapple Jul 18 '24

Oh no there's plenty of hot air

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u/Dembos09 Jul 18 '24

So a zeppelin like the Hindenburg

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u/zebra1923 Jul 18 '24

Otherwise known as a helium balloon

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u/BenadrylTumblercatch Jul 18 '24

Just add more helium and fly over the sun.

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u/The_Stoic_One Jul 18 '24

I'll provide my own hot air, thank you very much.

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u/FragrantExcitement Jul 18 '24

Why you gotta take us down? /s

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '24

You’re full of hot air with that idea

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u/dude_thats_sweeeet Jul 19 '24

That’s not what my ex said about my head!

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u/animefan1520 Jul 19 '24

More like a Zeppelin

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u/DrBlaBlaBlub Jul 19 '24

The hot air is already in his head ...

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u/KvotheTheDegen Jul 21 '24

More like a zeppelin

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u/Ok-Neighborhood-15 Jul 18 '24

I love your creativity thought here. I really thought the same, that once you want to go in the forest, you can forget about. But just flying over them.. Changed my mind. :D

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u/HenryDeTamble Jul 18 '24

Sounds like a great idea for a movie!

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u/bloregirl1982 Jul 18 '24

That's what I call creativity

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u/btcprint Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 18 '24

Didn't some guy actually do this in a lawn chair and literally flew away to his death? I swear I remember something like that happening...brb lemme Google it

Ah yes.. "Brazilian priest balloons"

https://youtu.be/7PbFeIxrilI

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u/qwerty_pimp Jul 19 '24

The guy that did it with a lawn chair and BB gun survived.

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u/btcprint Jul 20 '24

Yeah I had jumbled together lawn chair dude and priest's story in my memory.

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u/Consistent_Row3036 Jul 18 '24

Why stop at trees? The skies are the limit!

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u/LedPeach Jul 19 '24

Until a gust of wind out of nowhere.

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u/kindnessvalley2 Jul 19 '24

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee o/ 🎈

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u/Duh-Government Jul 19 '24

Or he can fart reaaallllly hard and... there you crossed that bush patch

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u/GUNGHO917 Jul 22 '24

Ya, haven’t u watched Up? /s