I visited the US National Helium Reserve

[@TomScottGo]

To answer the obvious question: the dog is called Randy, he lives on the reserve after being found near there as a puppy 13 years ago, and he means that the one person who's out there on the night shift doesn't have to feel alone in the middle of the plains.

[@holmrekr]

ok

[@QualityDoggo]

These are the important questions

[@AdvanceAU]

Randy is a good doggo.

[@thinfourth]

Know your audience

[@oxybrightdark8765]

That is adorable.

[@Mondoria]

We were _this_ close to hearing Tom Scott on helium

[@PrograError]

great scott !

[@reimarpb]

And this... (exciting buildup) ...is just regular air. (dissapointment)

[@PrograError]

@@reimarpb _sad Trombone_

[@kwakerjak]

I honestly thought it would be full of sulphur hexaflouride for maximum contrariness.

[@borismatesin]

So the next best thing we have is Tom (and the TechDif crew) blowing a solid tuba.

[@4547466]

"We should treat it like a fossil fuel" alright boys, you heard 'im, use as much of it as possible

[@allmyfriendsaredead3107]

small nation is discovered to have massive amounts of helium United States: *allow us to introduce ourselves*

[@anubhavghosh4556]

@@allmyfriendsaredead3107 time for some freeedom

[@edwinhuang9244]

@@anubhavghosh4556 Help. I accidently ate some oil. Please help.

[@dabs4270]

@@edwinhuang9244 dont worry, we'll be sending our best army to free you from that oil very soon

[@OrangeC7]

@@anubhavghosh4556 time to manifest our destiny all over this helium reserve!

[@Carl_Thompson]

We could always fill party balloons with hydrogen. Makes any party go with a bang

[@RDSk0]

Fun fact: Methane-filled party ballons are a thing.

[@FusionGPV]

Good idea! I'll have them floating around right as I blow the candles!

[@2MeterLP]

"Okay little timmy, you can either have ballons OR candles at your birthday, both is no longer an option."

[@Carl_Thompson]

RDSk that’s got to be a shitty party 😂

[@hydrochloricacid2146]

@@RDSk0 the fact that methane-filled party balloons aren't very common is probably a good thing.

[@PracticalEngineeringChannel]

That's right outside my hometown. There's a huge monument of the helium atom outside the science museum. Some of my favorite memories as a kid started at that state. Great video.

[@zacharyhenderson2902]

Is it just 4 big circles?

[@MrAwesome7123]

isnt it funny that the guy with 1.8 million subscribers only has 3 replies

[@DugrozReports]

@@MrAwesome7123 now 4.

[@emilebichelberger7590]

Can you do an episode on Landfills?

[@DrDeuteron]

The helium nucleus and the atom are perfectly spherical.

[@imacookieboichocchip8819]

Tom: This could be an international disaster Me, in high pitch voice: *oh no*

[@SOLIDSNAKE.]

Hahaha

[@No-cc1fq]

Anyway

[@adammullarkey4996]

"...the US has the national helium reserve - at least, they do for now." Until it floats away, presumably. I hope it's tied down properly.

[@pedrofellipe8028]

A really underated comment right there! You win the internet for today, sir.

[@ToddHowar.d]

Just like Bubble Boy did back a while ago.

[@blackhole4106]

Until we seek to liberate another country to procure their helium reserves

[@TheLow57]

Great joke, dad

[@neosrc]

You deserve 1k likes

[@klima94]

I already see an Onion article: Party balloons are to be filled with hydrogen after Helium prices go up.

[@floo1465]

Oh, a Hindenburg-themed birthday party!

[@MrSpankee02]

I prefer balloons full of nitrous oxide,now those are REAL party balloons.

[@capechronicler]

That would get your party going with a bang

[@Aurora-Palace]

How bout ‘party balloons filled with cheese’

[@rockspoon6528]

Honestly, hydrogen balloons are way better than helium. Stronger lift, cheaper and easier to produce, and the byproduct is oxygen.

[@consciouslasagne354]

I never use helium in my balloons, I use hydrogen. Needless to say, it was lit.

[@reappermen]

Your party must have been an absolute banger

[@callumocallaghan9555]

lmao

[@kumi6797]

must be a fire party

[@inack9220]

so, let me get this straight....how many survived

[@Abdullahmohmand]

Germans once did that. A huge cruiseship with hydrogen balloon And the result wasn't that good. I mean you should check that disaster

[@tylerbrown3135]

The world is running out of tom scotts

[@magic_cfw]

yes, experts have stated that if we do not step up our conservation efforts, we may not see any more tom scotts in 100 years.

[@namelast6982]

Apparently there is a 15km wide meteorite in the Oort cloud made entirely of Tom Scott's.

[@jodroboxes]

@@namelast6982 Why won't Elon just fly there and grab some?

[@namelast6982]

@@jodroboxes He's busy fixing his armoured glass.

[@Platitudinous9000]

Tom Scott is running out of helium

[@jarvis]

the ending was adorable

[@CharlesB-o2u]

Hmmm verified

[@UncreativUsername]

I’m big fan

[@crashbunks]

OK, I unironically watch *almost* all of your videos.

[@fazza2104]

Hi Jarvis

[@unitgamex2972]

Hello channel with 1 million subscribers

[@TheQuark6789]

Fyi, the reason why we have about 100 years of known reserves for a lot of substances is just because we haven’t gone looking for more. Discovering these reserves costs significant money, and there’s just little reason to do that when we know about plenty for the time being. From a civilization-planning perspective it might be wise, but it also might not be when there are many other pressing things to do with that money.

[@sourcererseven3858]

And another aspect: if we knew for certain that there is helium for exactly 2000 years out there, we'd spend it in 200.

[@Smonserratm]

It's ironic that we're running out of the second most common element in the universe

[@nikunjsingh9169]

Mainly because a large part of it is found or formed in Stars. And we have quite a lot of stars in the universe

[@gaetano_kojj]

Sun has plenty of it, why won't Elon just fly there and grab some? /s

[@4ntig3n]

@@gaetano_kojj Didn't you listen? It would escape from the bed of his stainless steel truck xD

[@nepunepu5894]

@@gaetano_kojj actually someone already design concept on how to mine the sun

[@enricobianchi4499]

@@nepunepu5894 found the sfia viewer

[@malignusvonbottershnike563]

Conserving helium? That sounds like a noble cause

[@Dear_Mr._Isaiah_Deringer]

hehe

[@secretgarbage6581]

underrated

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

You sound like you'd be a gas at parties.

[@stiimuli]

(slow clap)

[@Mike-jx2uj]

Can I call you daddy

[@raavil]

"I personally happened to like partyballons..." Whar a nice guy

[@DragonsFrogs]

Haha I thought the same thing

[@dereksgc]

So it is depleting, but slower. Are we then walking out of helium?

[@pandakekok7319]

No, we are crawling out

[@thereasonbehindchickensacts]

That's good.

[@FrVitoBe]

some times it swims

[@FroggyMosh]

We're moseying out of helium... Sauntering, even.

[@Gabdube]

In the timescale of civilizations, though, we are racing out of it on horseback. There's only enough of it for maybe a couple centuries as far as we know, and the need for it can rise faster than the finite supply might, due to being essential to basic services like healthcare for an increasing global population that will cap out in the 10-11 billions.

[@cry0lite800]

I’ve never tried inhaling helium before ... But people speak very highly of it.

[@akudumb3021]

Sebastian Elytron Skusowiskwoa

[@ChefMimsy]

*groan*

[@Mike-jx2uj]

You are a Punny guy

[@alexhauptmann298]

I used to work at a helium mining operation, but I quit. I was tired of being spoken to in that tone.

[@higherquality]

yep

[@Masterrunescapeer]

Interesting fact: South Africa recently (well 2018/19 now) found a deposit of at least 25bn cubic feet of helium, 3% concentration vs e.g. US 0.35% (The US used to have the most concentrated helium in the world, everyone else was

[@2MeterLP]

Time to switch to hydrogen balloons. "Okay little timmy, you can either have ballons OR candles at your birthday, both is no longer an option."

[@HaydenTheEeeeeeeeevilEukaryote]

both = lit party

[@truthsmiles]

As silly as it sounds, I think this is a perfectly reasonable thing to say to a child. They'll understand it better than we probably give them credit for.

[@Nalisification]

Aren't mylar balloons really flammable anyway?

[@dynamicworlds1]

"Ok big timmy, do you want alcohol, candles, or balloons at your party. You can pick 2."

[@piguyalamode164]

The only thing more fun than a hydrogen balloon is a vacuum balloon

[@conorlamere399]

I love how Tom always gets a perfect ending (like the balloon going off screen), then keeps the extra few seconds anyway for one last joke

[@DropAVP]

i saw this on smiling friends and had to look it up, glad that good 'ol tom decided to make a video on it

[@scipio5916]

Friends: Guys, where’s all the helium going? Tom *_in a squeaky voice_* : No idea!

[@pabloata4708]

HAHAHA! good one!

[@JohnLumagui]

"Sonny, I spent 30 years working the Helium fields of Wyoming, and...STOP LAUGHING AT MY SQUEAKY VOICE!"

[@soldier91]

I love the professionals you have on! They're usually so well-spoken and seem passionate about sharing their knowledge.

[@lukewood9210]

Are we running out of helium? Yes’nt

[@ScottishRebel]

reserves yes helium no most of the earths helium isnt in reserves its still in the ground

[@beforecuddlybunnylps841]

Be warned of the grammar nazis.

[@Millbrook1974powderedwater]

No, we're not, but the generations after us will be.

[@Kiirabu197]

Yesn't*

[@richardmillhousenixon]

@@beforecuddlybunnylps841 Found one 👆

[@DCassidy42]

I always find it interesting when people are so relaxed about the estimated claims of having enough of something for 80 years or so, as if to say that there is enough for my lifetime and that's good enough. 80 years is basically nothing in terms of human history and the lifespan of the earth.

[@SLKibara]

Well, people are selfish

[@StefanGruber]

Because the technological landscape is going to be completely different within 80 years. In 20 years, new prospecting and extraction methods will shift the estimate again to 80 years. After another 20 years, again and so on. And/Or somewhere along the way, actual production of Helium becomes feasible, like for example as a byproduct of fusion reactors. And/Or alternatives to Helium are found or machines are fitted to work better with the alternatives. Like when the world was about to run out of copper, because of the great new invention of the telegraph. The market adjusts and a few decades later, we aren't really using copper for telecommunication cables anymore. Now we use cables for which the resource is as plentiful as sand in the Sahara. Literally.

[@samuelyoung2671]

Stefan Gruber U right... 80 years isnt enough time to say fk it, but its more than enough time for technology to change drastically which impacts both supply and demand.

[@DCassidy42]

@@samuelyoung2671 isnt that what they said about fossil fuels? We've been highly dependent on them without any real alternatives since 1876. A huge portion of electricity is still dependent on burning coal and many island nations use diesel generators for their electricity.

[@WillStrong7]

@@DCassidy42 people said the exact same thing about coal back in the day, until oil replaced it. Now it looks like we may soon burn more and more natural gas. Given the unbelievable size of oil left in the world (Wikipedia says an estimate of 250 billion barrels in the U.S. alone), it seems much more likely that we will stop burning oil to alleviate climate change than stop burning it because we run out.

[@jakoblinton2053]

Did not expect to come here from smiling friends, but here we are.

[@garrettnewell]

Same

[@coolmikefromcanada]

i almost assumed is was going to be a balloon of sulfur hexa-whatever and we would get the rare treat of blues tom

[@patrickhector]

Sulphur hexafluoride

[@johnthomas2970]

Fun fact: SF6 has the one of the highest global warming potentials of any gases. It's about 16 000 times more powerful than CO2

[@Inexpressable]

@@patrickhector no, the guy was right. the technical term is in fact sulfur hexa-thingamajiggy

[@jpe1]

mike osted I had also had a momentary hope that the ballon contained sulfur hexafluoride but then realized that would be an even worse message to send, because SF6 is a terrible greenhouse gas, so bad that Nike no longer uses it to inflate their “Air Jordan” sneakers (and that’s something else you might not know).

[@zapfanzapfan]

I thought the same, the voice of Darth Vader instead of Micky Mouse :-)

[@samcostin7586]

3 tests tomorrow, none of them studied for... but here I am wondering if we’re running out of helium

[@jaxusr235]

Sam Costin Bah, studying is for noobs.

[@russellhoude5744]

Relatable...

[@SOLIDSNAKE.]

@@jaxusr235 noobs!

[@vaioretto-chanjade5810]

yo how did those tests go

[@GOAT_GOATERSON]

@@vaioretto-chanjade5810wow, I just wanted to ask that

[@benjaminpainter378]

I only watched this video to hear Tom's voice on helium. This is the only time Tom has let me down. Just wish it wasn't this way

[@aliveslice]

That is your problem though. The video isn't called "me on helium"

[@artemlyubchenko3022]

Same.

[@the_hanged_clown]

I'm buying a helium tank now so when I am an old geezer I can amaze the family with stuff we had back in our day

[@ieperen3039]

Helium leaks through anything. Y'know, dont want to have you be after 50 years like, oh it's empty.

[@leonardpearlman4017]

Well, it won't spoil!

[@MelodicaDude]

The helium guy sounds like Andy Richter's long lost brother

[@_gorezone_]

Dude, you're totally right hahaha

[@JasonAllenUK]

With a hint of Mark Hoppus.

[@salat]

..and looks like Jack Black's father somehow.

[@yousefalnahar2567]

salat thats what i was gonna say

[@bodoque_csm]

Andy Richter with a cold

[@insomnijack7528]

This'll put a smile on 3D Squelton's face.

[@anthonypacelli187]

If there ever was an opportunity to perform an outro after breathing sulfur hexafluoride, this was it.

[@sloanemactire8780]

Thank you - I was trying to remember which chemical was the opposite of helium for inhaling.

[@fisch37]

You could also use Xenon as it is at least not a greenhouse gas

[@callmeshaggy5166]

Yes xenon also works but its not as deep as hf

[@rhamph]

A lot of this comes down to misunderstanding the word "reserves", which has to do with known, commercially viable resources. It doesn't include all the stuff that's unknown or the stuff that looks too expensive with the current market and current techniques. Any time an article talks about running out of "reserves" there's actually way, way more available. I'm still concerned about running out of helium though.

[@iabervon]

There's also the confusion with the National Helium Reserve, shown here, which sounds like it's all the helium in the US, but it's actually just the helium owned by the government, which doesn't want to be stockpiling helium and has been trying to wind down the program for 23 years, and accounts for none of the resources that could be extracted. But there was actually a point where it looked like selling off all the helium they were trying to get rid of might drive all the companies that extract helium out of business, with the risk that the world would run out of helium in the sense that the world ran out of Twinkies in 2012, when the manufacturer went bankrupt and it took ten months of none being available before production got back underway.

[@DamienDarkside]

Don't be, over the last year we're good.

[@mazo691]

Kudos to Mr. Burton, a concise overview of the helium system/exploration/market. Thanks!

[@Robo0595]

4:36 I spy with my little eye A VERY GOOD BOY

[@kyle18934]

my dog would have attacked with a licking and jumping furry vengeance

[@peepeepoopoo100]

GOOD BOY ACQUIRED

[@Cohhor]

Good character. Wish they did more with him.

[@SussyGussy69420]

I'd kick that dog

[@PurpleTurtle-t4q]

why is Tom passionately kissing a bowling ball in the thumbnail?

[@MasterCrander]

Sucking the juice out of a huge marachino cherry?

[@heychell]

Licking a gigantic gobstopper?

[@MiseFreisin]

stop kinkshaming

[@MasterCrander]

Cloud [2512] Kinkshaming _is_ my kink

[@chriswashingtonbeats]

Under rated

[@whoopdeedo83]

I came to this Helium is a finite resource video after watching the float around in a Helium filled blimp video...

[@thegreatchrispy]

That's my hometown. There's a street that's literally called Helium Road.

[@Milesco]

Wasn't that a Lindsey Buckingham song a number of years ago?

[@umbigbry]

Lies, Wyoming doesnt exist

[@levimcglinchey5843]

@@Milesco Helium roooOHHHOHOHHOAHHHHd

[@frzstat]

and a Cadillac Ranch!

[@Daye04]

Tom Scott was so near you 😱

[@Mistersky46]

Are we running out of helium? Well yes.. But no.. But actually yes

[@pandakekok7319]

So no?

[@jimtekkit]

It's a definite maybe.

[@Aurora-Palace]

Sounds like Vsauce2

[@ttn_kk]

No. You can harvest it on sun

[@spammer21]

@@ttn_kk The sun actually needs it. But the moon has plenty of it underground so fair enough.

[@TheCuriousNoob]

We're not running out we still have 80-100 years left! -Oil barons in the 1900s

[@SuperSMT]

And look, we still have 80-100 years of oil left. We found more.

[@TheCuriousNoob]

@@SuperSMT OK... That's almost no oil. So civilization will be brought to its knees in a century? Not our problem, I guess...

[@vladtheimpaler1570]

@@TheCuriousNoob you just keep saying that we're running out every 100 years. its just like the apocalypse, won't happen.

[@gracefool]

@@vladtheimpaler1570 well, it will happen *eventually*. But we don't know when. And it will be gradual, not cataclysmic.

[@Guztav1337]

The old known sources of oil was 100 years worth. The current known sources of oil is 100 years worth. The future known sources of oil will be ??? years worth. We will find more, but when will we run out of finding more?

[@IstasPumaNevada]

"We won't have a shortage of this non-renewable resource for another decade, so it's okay to waste some now" is not good long-term thinking.

[@PrincessPeriodFart]

There's a big difference between a decade and a lifetime. Lots and lots of things change in a lifetime. We went from a species ground to the Earth, to flying in planes, to walking on the moon in a mere 70 years. It's not impossible that we'll be able to manufacture helium in 80-100 years time.

[@icantsurf24]

@@PrincessPeriodFart or just find more for that matter.

[@chaos.corner]

@David Daivdson Viable fusion has been ten years away for the last 40 years.

[@jaxusr235]

Chaos Corner And at some point it will be attained. Whether it’s now or later, things will happen, we might move on from helium, humanity will adapt as it has always done.

[@ChangedNames]

Peter Hasenpfeffer Mate we did all of this in 70 years because our ancestors and those who came before us spent their life time in finding small parts of the picture, and now after millenniums we just pieced them together (not completely that is for the next generations).

[@abzhuofficial]

"Breathless news articles" - nice linguistic work of genius Tom Scott.

[@CrimsonPhantom88]

"And that, Little Suzie, is why your party balloons are filled with hydrogen" Little Suzie: "Oh the humanity!"

[@marktownsend2384]

Funnily enough, the place I work has been running equipment using Liquid Helium for better than a decade at this point and we've had a few problems with helium price and shortages. Thankfully, however, we're just about to replace a system that wasted helium like crazy with a system that has an integrated helium recapture system that re-liquifies the stuff.

[@heyitsmejm4792]

"the increasing of helium price stimulates industries to look for more helium resources" the Sun: *awkward silence*

[@KohuGaly]

@@ragnkja I doubt that. The advantage of mining from the sun is that you can leverage the yottawatt nuclear fusion reactor at its core. At outer planets, you need to bring a power source with you.

[@bananya6020]

hey, small cost

[@bananya6020]

only hundreds of times what we could earn from it

[@bananya6020]

(earn/save)

[@KohuGaly]

@@ragnkja Yes, if you want to employ the same mining method that you'd use on planets. That would not be very smart. As I've said, the crucial difference is that the sun also provides energy to fuel the mining process. By cleverly placing mirrors and solar-powered electromagnets, you can make the sun throw its material at you. Mirrors and electromagnets work as long as they don't melt. If you're smart about their placement, you don't need to cool anything.

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

Sam is so sweet! I love his knowledge of Helium, and enthusiasm for party balloons! 😆

[@grumpygoomba9763]

Is this the way to Amarillo? Yes it is.

[@trxnchfoot]

SHALALALALALALALA DAH DAH

[@danieldeburgh8437]

That music video has not aged well.

[@trxnchfoot]

@@danieldeburgh8437 don't remind us...

[@TatsukiHashida]

Route 66

[@Loki-]

I'm okay with a world without party balloons.

[@skunkfac3]

Inflate them the old-fashioned way: lungs.

[@Phobos001_youtube]

:'

[@revenevan11]

I love hydrogen filled party balloons, personally. Actually not joking, I've done it before lmao

[@runarandersen878]

Me too, but because of plastic in nature.

[@Anankin12]

@@revenevan11 *HINDENBURG WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*

[@noahhfox]

Here after the video of Tom floating around the hanger.

[@als_pals]

So yes, we are running out, just not that quickly?

[@GRBtutorials]

Greg Fakerson Then again, 75 years is a long time. If we’re still alive, we might have the technology to extract helium-3 from the Moon by then, where there are big deposits of it, and even more in Jupiter. Also, nuclear fusion produces a small amount of helium, so there’s that as well.

[@Evan-lx7nb]

relative to human perception of time, we are still running out of helium; quite quickly. I didn't think this video was very helpful to sustainability concerns.

[@TheBushdoctor68]

That's what they thought 15 years ago as well, when they pumped 100 years worth of Helium into the ground.

[@davidmin3583]

This is so American in thought. 75 years is the blink of an eye for an entire element on a planet. It's not a product we can make. How can people not be anxious about this?

[@TunesByAI2024]

@@davidmin3583 humans(mainly older ones) generally dont care if something is running out since they'll be dead long before it becomes a problem.

[@metropolis10]

Based on the helium video by the history deserves to be remembered guy, my understanding is the US extracted a ton of helium from natural gas at great expense for WWII, then had a ton left over. This is the government "reserve". We are now "100 years away from running out of all said reserves". Not out of helium, but cheap already extracted helium. So price will go up as the cheap stuff runs out. It is like saying we are running out of oil already extracted in barrels, and will need to drill for more. Natural gas contains helium and we don't usually even bother to separate it as it's not worth it given the cheap reserve. Guess that will change.

[@revenevan11]

Right, and part of the issue is legislature after WWII that mandated selling all of the reserve of it before a certain upcoming date iirc. This flooded the market and lead to our current wastefulness in some ways. Despite the fact that we're not as urgently running out as the media makes it seem, we still are acting as though it's not a valuable and non-renewable resource, which we do still need to change asap. It's worth it even just to maintain the current cheap helium prices in order to keep up the pace of scientific progress! A lot of equipment needs helium for cooling nowadays, and as Tom said, as the price of it fluctuates some labs aren't able to complete their research.

[@highpath4776]

There was a newish find of additional helium. I think under a seabed location.Should still ban Helium balloons and canister, nobody recycles the damm things for the cylinders and the plastic foil is an environmental disaster. I had 22 birthdays and was never felt deprived not to have some foil baloon

[@deidra-v6575]

Helium is a noble gas so it doesn't react with anything

[@Konym]

Should've done the outro with Sulfur Hexaflouride. The opposite (effect) of Helium!

[@ieperen3039]

CO2 has the same effect right?

[@HeyWhoStoleMyCookie]

@@ieperen3039 definitely not xD

[@ichika9298]

That would be hilarious

[@belg4mit]

Something overlooked is that helium is generally found in conjunction with natural gas. Yes, we'll be finding more helium as we do more natural gas exploration, or even helium-specific exploration, but it also means that the natural gas comes out at the same time we take out the helium (hence the need for enrichment facilities shown in the video). Conservation then becomes doubly important then, so as to not add to the impetus to exploit natural gas.

[@makisback]

4:36 A random dog getting his moment of fame

[@Silver2004Avalhadia]

I'm so glad KZbin recommended me a video from this channel. This channel one of the best on KZbin. I really enjoy those videos, great job! (and unique)

[@leppy1563]

Ah yes another informative Tom Scott vide- *DOG* *DOG DETECTED*

[@timmorris1432]

GET A LOAD OF THAT DOG

[@stiimuli]

squirrel!

[@Cjnw]

Ok boomer

[@tonyhussey3610]

OK Boomer is such a lame insult

[@Cjnw]

@@tonyhussey3610 Ok boomer 😛

[@ae1ae2]

"is actually a little bit incorrect" This dude is so polite! 🙂

[@krmusick]

AE Sam is a riot.

[@devilgene7330]

That little frowning guy was wrong actually

[@CesarSanchez-et7qg]

Boo hoo 3d squelton hates lies

[@marioboi323]

But Charlie looked it up tho

[@leumasme]

Is The World Running Out Of IPv4 Addresses?

[@johnhaines4163]

I think it already has.

[@QualityDoggo]

Temm We already did. IPv6 is a big deal, but we're okay for now with NATs.

[@teh-maxh]

RIPE NCC just allocated their last /22 this morning, so yes.

[@efari]

... you mean is it "still" running out? wasn't that a big deal some years ago? or is it not a big deal now, because they took care of it? (same as y2k)

[@isaaclee-mort]

@@sirapple589 Ripe is the body that manages IP addresses, a /22 network is 1024 addresses. Companies get allocated blocks at a time, and if they've already been given their allowance, they have to pay a massive premium, which is understandable.

[@diamondflaw]

"Helium" has officially reached semantic satiation.

[@gabrielfraser2109]

Are you perchance a fellow fan of the Grey?

[@Aaron-dt3xz]

epic cgpgrey moment

[@diamondflaw]

@@gabrielfraser2109 Tim confirmed.

[@stiimuli]

(pretends to know what those words mean)

[@IdRatherNotHaveAHandleThankYou]

@@stiimuli when someone says words enough they loose meaning

[@wildmonster1]

This is finally a comments section that has a lot of original comments. You don’t see them unless you have some helium, a bit high on the standard!

[@dash8136]

one of my favorite youtubers right here i just love learning about the things you have to share with us everything is so interesting keep up the good work!

[@jpe1]

To everyone wondering if nuclear fusion reactors could help address the helium shortfall, the short answer is “no, because E=MC^2” The slightly longer answer is that fusion reactors won’t produce useable amounts of helium because fusing one deuteron-proton pair into a helium-3 nucleus yields about 5.5MeV of energy, which equates to 3x10^24MeV per *mole* of helium gas generated (1 mole is enough to fill 1 *very* small balloon) and to scale that to something more familiar, that’s 4.5x10^8 BTU (British Thermal Units) or 134MWh (megawatt hours). A fusion power plant that generates enough energy to power a small town will generate only a couple party balloons worth of helium per day.

[@jpe1]

spoj while I realize most Americans are probably more familiar with therms than BTU, I was hoping that at least one or the other of BTU or megawatt hours would be familiar. It’s also (roughly) equivalent to about 5,000 gallons of gasoline (20,000 liters of petrol 😉).

[@Roxor128]

The only unit of energy you used that had any meaning to me was megawatt-hours.

[@ashleythorpe7933]

Thanks for the metric conversions of all archaic units of measurement. It's called the International system of units for a reason...

[@EnmaDarei]

I was expecting the balloon to be filled with sulfur hexafluoride to be the twist, I'm slightly disappointed. Great video, though.

[@TheEvilCheesecake]

That's deep bro

[@akashchavda9679]

Tom in an alternate universe: HEY GUYS IT'S YO BOY TOMMY AND TODAY WE'RE GONNA PRANK....

[@gownerjones]

I would pay to see that.

[@shadowfan982]

if tom was 20 years younger

[@theajayyy]

You guys haven't seen his prank video (From the "not the future, but a future series")?

[@easymac79]

2:20 I just imagine one day everyone at the plant starts talking with a high pitched voice. "well, where do we start looking?"

[@Kraigon42]

"This place was built for 100 years' worth of helium usage at the time." "We've depleted it in about 15 years." "There's 80-100 years' worth of helium in the United States." Hmmm... Something doesn't sound right... I can't put my finger on it...

[@portablerefrigerator4902]

That might be your brain crashing. this one facility was built to last 100 years, but increased usage within the past 15 years drained it faster. While overall in the us, at our current rate of helium usage, we have 100 years worth remaining. You are the weakest link, goodbye.

[@Bzorlan]

Guess we'll have to start using hydrogen balloons instead

[@skunkfac3]

Or just use your lungs.

[@Bzorlan]

@@skunkfac3 you know air has the same buoyancy as air

[@TheAetherOne]

Better keep your balloons away from the birthday candles in that case.

[@jonathanguthrie9368]

It is my understanding that weather balloons are filled with hydrogen unless there is some reason to fill them with helium instead.

[@francesconicoletti2547]

Michael Gutterman the way us old times filled balloons before this new fangled helium. Balloons are fun even if they fall to the floor.

[@waffiie]

“We should be treating helium like fossil fuels.” So without a care in a world eh?

[@jeroenverschaeve3090]

Yep, just use it in greenhouses to turn water into tomatoes slightly quicker. And spill some into the ocean while we're at it :D

[@owenkegg5608]

Laughs in America.

[@gefloigle]

Get over yourself.

[@ruffxm]

@@jeroenverschaeve3090 Water turns into tomatoes?

[@mediocreman2]

Nope, just stop all exploration and transportation and sell it to other countries like Brandon does.

[@jessicalee333]

"We really do need to conserve helium, so this? [holds up balloon] is just Sulfur Hexaflouride!" - now _that_ would have been quite an outro.

[@Ridz149]

America: where’s the oil Also America: *where’s the h e l i u m*

[@anarchyantz1564]

Also where is the uranium, Lithium and anything else that is needed.

[@GRBtutorials]

Anarchy Antz Lithium isn’t that scarce, though. Cobalt is a bigger problem.

[@anarchyantz1564]

@@GRBtutorials With the massive increase in usage for batteries it has of course a finite supply but with the work by its creator John B. Goodenough on a new idea for a glass sodium battery that is more efficient, longer lasting and easier to recharge hopefully they will come into usage before the lithium becomes like helium. And yes the Cobalt issue is a bit of a problem.

[@Ridz149]

@Anarchy Antz- fkn hell u wrote an essay 😂

[@jessebrook1688]

Radioactive elements? Canada and the Congo. Which is a part of why the Congo is so politically unstable (a small part).

[@ionacmitchell]

4:30 this guy smiling about loving party balloons made my day!

[@zaphodb777]

Shoulda done the balloon with SF6. The deep bass would have been so unexpected.

[@notthatcreativewithnames]

5:10 That scene reminds me of my own experience when I tried to orally inflate a balloon, and then it deflated and pushed the air back through my throat. It was among one of the worst taste stuffs ever entered my mouth!

[@garyb6219]

The price of helium lately is really ballooning.

[@bucketslash11]

privatization is not the answer, they'll just try to extract profit out of it rather than preserving it

[@julkabulka4]

Welcome to the world of capitalism. Where $ is above all important.

[@azam148]

What makes you think the government would preserve it?

[@bucketslash11]

@@azam148 because there is an incentive to preserving it for the purposes mentioned in the video unless of course the politicians are bought out by the private sector, but as long as we can keep the corporations away from the resource we can preserve it and with Bernie Sanders having a big chance of becoming the next president it's gonna be hard for companies to get their hands on it

[@azam148]

bucketslash11 big government can be just as evil as big corporations if not more, look at what is happening in Venezuela. Americans need faith and reason, with free market capitalism. Not Socialist bs.

[@hanz9732]

Tom how do you find these video ideas, loved the videos really made my sick day better!

[@cityuser]

I think a lot of it is people contacting him.

[@DrZbo]

Feel better

[@FuzzyLittleBastard]

Gotta respect the OA picture. Rock on brother!

[@gmksmedia923]

Smiling friends brought me here

[@GigglingChinchilla]

I played this video at 2x playback to simulate Tom talking while on helium.

[@I25mI25]

That shouldn't work on regular youtube... When speeding up (or slowing down) the video, youtube keeps the wavelength of the sound the same and instead cuts out/duplicates part of it to keep it at the same pitch.

[@merovetouchstone]

With the newpipe frontend you can adjust speed and pitch independently

[@DarkIzo]

Mérové Touchstone you can do that with audacity as well after youve fetched the video but this kind if method is not what the simplicity of this comment implies they wanted attention, they got attention

[@merovetouchstone]

A frontend use case would be something you do use when casually watching videos. in this case it's literally just an app to replace the crappy yt app.

[@ayasaki.pb_787]

Big brain

[@TasteTheRambo]

Great. Now I'm going to have anxiety at birthday parties. "no, don't waste that balloon. It's a PRECIOUS RESOURCE."

[@MrMisterDerp]

5:14 what a sound, wasn’t looking at my phone and thought tom just crapped himself

[@gabrielwottrichdobrachinsk6333]

we need to conservate helium, next video recomendation: how much does it take to lift a person?

[@relaxinwithjaxin911]

3:04 - "there's 80-100 years of helium left." 3:12 - "to say that we're running out of helium is incorrect"

[@relaxinwithjaxin911]

@@00O3O1B okay, and then what after that? if it runs out in 10,000 years instead of 100, it still runs out you bafoon.

[@XxZigonxX]

@@relaxinwithjaxin911 Everything runs out eventually, one day there will be nothing left. Such is Entropy.

[@thetumans1394]

@@XxZigonxX Yes, but I'd like the human race to last a bit longer than a few thousand years.

[@gsilva220]

Who is here after watching Smiling Friends?

[@hadinasrallah8928]

yup

[@edwithano]

The question is : will the world ever run out of Tom Scott videos now that would be bad

[@sk8rdman]

Thanks for addressing the real issues here. Party Balloons.

[@mikekazz5353]

4:34 that mellow fellow is adorable I bet that guard dog has high pitched barks.

[@benjaminlewis3903]

Why does Tom look like he’s trying to balance the hard hat on his head in the beginning?

[@Cyfrik]

Probably because hard hats tend to be a bit wobbly. Every time I've worn hard hats (which, to be fair, is not that many times) there's been, like, a mesh of ribbons that are what you actually strap onto your head, and then the actual helmet is suspended a bit above that. I'm assuming it's there to ensure there's room to cushion the impact if anything does hit the helmet.

[@Xnoob545]

H A R D H A T? Helmet: Am I a joke to you?

[@Cyfrik]

@@Xnoob545 Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I recall correctly "hard hat" is the name for that type of helmet.

[@JNCressey]

Plastic isn't that hard though... glass on the other hand...

[@Xnoob545]

@@Cyfrik there are different types of helmets? Wow

[@robasayas2320]

Discount Jack Black liking party balloons warms my heart

[@thetruegoldenknight]

I like how the middle of the video gives the simple answer to the video title's question: "Not really." And how there's still enough for a hundred years, but we still need to be mindful of its consumption.

[@will7657]

The helium guy has jack black's eyes and eyebrows

[@tonyhussey3610]

Will it’s his industrious Brother ..Jim Bob Black

[@tobiaspascher9884]

Haha yes, cant unsee it anymore 😂😂😂

[@Kuroi733]

"We should protect this resource" "Balloons! Get your FREE balloons!"

[@dkosmari]

It's the same thing with banning plastic straws in developed worlds, where people don't actually throw their plastic into the ocean. Party balloons use a minuscule amount of Helium. Helium reserves go down because the US government stopped subsidizing the extraction and processing of Helium for the entire damn planet. I fully support letting the Free Market decide how much Helium is worth.

[@veizour]

Newscast / Documentary level videos. I'm constantly wowed by all your videos. Nice work.

[@actmgr9786]

I love the ending, it makes Tom so much more Human!

[@ce-lz5jw]

Finally a video, thx for making them

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

This is an example of a resource that is assumed to be scarce because of only the amount of reserve known at the moment, the consumption rate known at that moment, and the efficiency technology invented only up to that moment. As soon as another source is located, or someone invents a way to recover it or use it at a lesser rate, or even possibly produce it artificially, the scarcity conception of it has to be modified. Track that scarcity conception over a long time, and you'll see that there isn't a scarcity at all.

[@jamesblunt006]

We need to conserve Helium! Next video: 70,000 liters of helium in a balloon to lift a person, while the helium slowly leaks out of the balloon and mixes with air leaking into the balloon and has to be emptied out and refilled from scratch once a year.