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So fun fact: Helium is the most abundant resource in the universe. The reason our Helium reserves are "Running out" is because we stopped stockpiling it when we realized how easy it is to get.

I know it's stupid, but the reason why it is so hard to get helium is because it just fuckin floats away.

Dude later generations of humans are gonna have the most depressing planet after we're done ruining it

“It’s all gonna be gone.” - Charlie Dopler (2022)

Stop wasting it in birthday balloons. We've got MRI machines to run.

Ya'll is this actually true?

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Is that true 😰😰😰

Good thing helium became useless about 90 years ago

Tony really was fucked up in the head.

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To be honest it wasn't clear at all. I remember some kind of torch that really confused me. Weird movie.

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The interesting thing about this is that it's right on the surface, but actually wrong. They generally only prospect out to about 40-50 years of a natural resource at a given time, and then largely stop until roughly half of it runs out, since it's just not economically feasible to increase production once you have half a century-worth of anything. Once they got to the halfway point a few years ago, they started looking again and found more after a couple years of looking. Right on the surface, wrong on deeper look, which pretty well perfectly fits the Frowning Friends' shtick.

The most scary thing about it is that people need helium for medical stuff.

Nuclear power plants produce helium, we just don’t collect it all.

? We don't fucking need- WE DONT NEED HELIUM! Lol its not as needed as others that's why we don't go around probing for that stuff. what we have now will last us for 20 years. in total its probably way more. Its like gold in Minecraft 1.0 its not useful yet..

What we need to do is fund research into creating more helium using the existing stuff for when it does run out. Granted balloons will be more expensive but at least we'd have them forever!

FYI this was wrong. Don't get your science education from cartoon writers.

Helium is really not that rare, we are not in danger of running out. The reason there was so little stockpiled Helium and so little new Helium being found was that it really wasn't very profitable. There was no demand for it on the market because its primary public use was for balloons, which are fairly niche and have a low profit margin compared to most products. However we've actually started collecting way more in recent years due to it having new uses in medical devices, so we're not in danger of running out anytime soon.

Helium is really not that rare, we are not in danger of running out. The reason there was so little stockpiled Helium and so little new Helium being found was that it really wasn't very profitable. There was no demand for it on the market because its primary public use was for balloons, which are fairly niche and have a low profit margin compared to most products. However we've actually started collecting way more in recent years due to it having new uses in medical devices, so we're not in danger of running out anytime soon.

Even with the new deposit, its at most 40-60 years. We have that long to find a new way to do space flight or we're grounded. Tons of helium is used to launch every space flight.

Love this scene. Her reaction to Charlie’s stupidity is so funny 😂😂😂

Who else is watching this in 15 years with no helium left? Ooo ooo ooo

It’s important to understand that the way natural resources are measured is by how much is left in ACTIVE extraction sites. There are still plenty of deposits that are known about and way more that we have yet to find.

It is actually true but we have between 100 and 200 years of helium left not 15 to 20.

Is this the frowning friends episode?

Not even gravity could hold it down, rip in a few year helium.

Helium is so fkn abundant. Its atomic number ONE.

So?

I think this joke has actually aged better, since Frowning Friends' whole purpose was to make fun of overly pessimistic/nihilistic terminally online people who care more about being negative than reality.

You can always use hydrogen for balloons instead of helium

guess we have to use hydrogen for birthday ballons from now on. careful with the candles tho!

No one will know how the balloons on TV used to float. They'll be so confused.

If anyone knows im curious, does running out of helium matter at all? Someone else in the comments mentioned some medical devices use it, but aside from that is it really a huge deal if we run out?

Imagine we figure out a revolutionary new way of transportation or medicine or just the next step in advamcing civilization or even just keeping our current civilizations alive and it requires lots of helium, and by the time we find out we just wasted it all on balloons and making our voices sound high pitched

Whoa so fucking deep bro, truly our economic system relies on unceasing expansion whoa

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can't you just make it

Sure wish we'd stop putting it in fucking ballons.

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It's not 100 % true but it will become a more rare commodity in the future. A helium tank would be an appreciating asset if you have the space for one.

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Helium is formed through radioactive decay, so we'll never actually run out of helium... The point does stand that helium will soon become incredibly expensive and almost entirely used in the medical field, so we will still be out of birthday ballons soon.

Poor inflation fetishist

40 years until its all out of the ground but itll be more like over 100 years before we run out forever

If the world is running low on helium, I’m afraid of the other resources we’ll run low on.

I just finished watching Simpsons Histories on Cletus, which is coincidental since an episode revolved around Cletus sitting on a fairly substantial helium deposit