The World's Helium Problem: When Will We Run Out?

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[@RAZ0RGAM1NG]

"Rare earth element thats hard to find here" *humans use it for decorative parties*

[@artistwithouttalent]

NOooOOoOoOOOooOoOoo yOu cAN't jUSt wASte a RaRe EArTh ElEMeNt wE NEEd ThAt fOR meDiCinE haha balloon machine go brrrr

[@sm8tal229]

idk most people use air for ballons

[@planescaped]

@Let's Travel _pops balloon_ what I can't hear you!? _pop_

[@eeeveee]

*and talking like chipmunks

[@afinoxi]

Imagine what the Aliens must think of us "They're wasting such valuable resources like it's nothing... Imagine how much they must have of it."

[@Commenter26]

Breaths in Helium: ᵂʰᵃᵗ ʷᵒᵘˡᵈ ʷᵉ ᵈᵒ ʷᶦᵗʰᵒᵘᵗ ʰᵉˡᶦᵘᵐˀ

[@billrobertjoe]

breaths

[@chonk3358]

**inhales Automatically**

[@NewNicator]

breaths

[@ineedsomeanswers9292]

Breathes

[@planescaped]

Bruths

[@Gmackematix]

Helium, what do you think about the shortage? Helium: *doesn't react.

[@devanshdesai3943]

Noice very underrated

[@ryanovski]

LMAO

[@Enderia2]

@@captainbean1264 eh

[@ahmediqbal9869]

big brain joke

[@dekutree64]

It really showed you who's the alpha in the relationship.

[@blorfgur5430]

Fun Fact: The reason Helium is so rare is because it’s so light that any loose atoms literally fly off into outer space.

[@wizzotizzo]

Woah, that's a cool fact. Thank you for sharing that with us.

[@goodloo8527]

@@diedie865 It is basically as rare as a free molecules, but hydrogen can be easily extracted from water.

[@blorfgur5430]

@@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.

[@mightisright]

Or it's in the upper atmosphere where it would be very expensive to retrieve it.

[@Boydiii7]

stop lying

[@warren5037]

Only when gone will people see that Helium was a noble one.

[@afinoxi]

Glad to know helium is subscribed to Metatron

[@thegoldengamer9315]

yes

[@badhrihari1705]

Here before comment goes kaboom

[@siennaq5553]

Tornado EF4

[@siennaq5553]

Tornado

[@chaotbl]

RLL: speaking about helium also RLL: showing images of hot air balloons, which have nothing to do with helium

[@edwardgoodwin9801]

I was looking for this comment lolol

[@gjsyhcufax9091]

What?

[@chaotbl]

@@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.

[@gjsyhcufax9091]

@@chaotbl aren't their gas balloons also which look like hot air ones

[@budmeister]

@@gjsyhcufax9091 hot air balloons are open to the outside on the bottom.

[@DavidBennettPiano]

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.

[@drunkendog13]

Shut up

[@jonathanthomas2449]

@@drunkendog13 he’s right tho

[@colenichols713]

Hmm that is strange guess we can't believe everything we hear

[@Zyo117]

Apparently something is gonna happen in 2023 and 2024 as well.

[@jonathanthomas2449]

@@Zyo117 what do you mean by that

[@reversegearz]

Jupiter : **got abundant helium** US : looks like jupiter need some democracy!

[@blakem2902]

"It's free real estate"

[@chrissr318]

Manifest Destiny

[@Nicozia]

Are you saying us or us

[@redactedz6146]

Welp see you guys in a thousand years or something idk. Say hello to the Jupiter Helium Fleets for me

[@dariusfarrel3228]

US: *sends a nuke or rocket to Jupiter* Jupiter: *quickly burns them all in his atmosphere* Lol

[@elliottstirrop4353]

Helium: *is rare earth element with almost limitless technological benefits* Humans: wow it do a float and make voice go squeak

[@fallendown8828]

We are incredably dum

[@benbrown4049]

haha deflating balloon go brrrrrr

[@board-qu9iu]

Bruh

[@maddrone7814]

@@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

[@fallendown8828]

@@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.

[@n0yn0y]

Earth: "I'm running out of helium" Sun: Lol just combine 2 hydrogen atoms

[@aribmahmud6066]

Lol

[@cl219]

It's kinda like saying we have a water problem on Earth. We don't have a water problem, we have a salt problem! The ocean is too salty to drink!

[@user-do5zk6jh1k]

@@HELLO7657 That would give you 2 helium atoms.

[@lautentico9517]

@@cl219 It's possible and already being tested a nuclear fusion reaction.

[@f3p]

@@user-do5zk6jh1k yes, that is helium gas

[@Peliha]

He didn't even said that the reason we are losing helium is because it leaves Earth's atmosphere and goes outer space.

[@willmungas8964]

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]

And all the other gasses in the atmosphere will leave too over time

[@alexpotts6520]

@@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).

[@wizzotizzo]

Yeah.

[@LukeMM95]

Space is fake

[@jaquishas]

helium: rare element humans: “lets breath it in and sound like mice”

[@madcat789]

If Michael Jackson didn't go "He-He-He" all the time then we'd have more.

[@bionic_yt9911]

Underrated comment

[@madcat789]

@Lejindary I like your PFP nerd.

[@phantasmalegionariiketchupsvm]

._.

[@madcat789]

@Brandon H I hate tea. Make it soda.

[@Angel.Diez.Ovelar]

😁😁. Good one

[@xBris]

2:45 "Balloons are the best known use" - goes on to show hot-air balloons with zero Helium in them. Well well ;)

[@hugoyu2001]

Yeah blimps would be more appropriate

[@stealth4510]

I guess their stock footage subscription only had hot air balloons

[@lordquastheonly]

Smiling friends brought me here

[@realanimegirl777]

saaaame dude

[@spaghettimon3851]

That's was from OneyPlays. lol

[@jeremiahhowell6147]

"Helium is lighter than air and is used in balloons" *Shows hot AIR balloons* Uhhh, guys? Who's going to tell him?

[@kyufuyuvbvbllymjnncuhuhbuh7538]

They should be called hot helium balloons

[@yungboomer6467]

@@kyufuyuvbvbllymjnncuhuhbuh7538 bro... they’re called hot AIR balloons for a reason

[@venusplatoon2839]

@@kyufuyuvbvbllymjnncuhuhbuh7538 so helium aint air then?

[@kyufuyuvbvbllymjnncuhuhbuh7538]

It wasn't meant to be serious

[@badhrihari1705]

Party Balloon Ads in the future: Now you can have part of Jupiter with you during your occasions

[@Empy_C.]

😂👌

[@sumreensultana1860]

Jupiter is mostly Hydrogen

[@Empy_C.]

@@sumreensultana1860 It's still 25% Helium

[@actin9294]

If humanity actually managed to efficiently farm both hellium and hydrogen from Jupiter we'd be living in golden age lol.

[@wamsang7818]

People: "screw Helium, we don't need it" RLL: "but there would be less party balloons" People: *PANIK*

[@icarus_2625]

Lol

[@dansimpson6844]

I like the idea of Hydrogen party balloons. Much more fun potential than just a squeaky voice!

[@m_._m906]

@@dansimpson6844 bruhhhh 😳

[@genghiskhan5701]

@@dansimpson6844 Theere would be a lot of explosive parties

[@user-oq9cb9wf7q]

@@icarus_2625 me an intellectual: *_a i r_*

[@dathiccestpotato9426]

Helium is also used to backfill rocket fuel tanks during flight, that way the fuel tanks don’t implode.

[@HonorinTreason]

Imagine we will run out of just about everything eventually.

[@GorgeGeorg]

except humans

[@bikinisforever4163]

Water shortages in the southwest, coming soon! The 2020's are off to a great start, and will only get greater!

[@manuelroger1035]

Except the human ignorance 😁 we'll never have to worry about running out of that ✌🏻

[@machupikachu1085]

@@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.

[@whoeveriam0iam14222]

hot air balloons? RLL: no they're helium balloons

[@fabio5286]

have you seen helium and hot air in the same place?

[@eczplaysgamesyt2885]

@@fabio5286 yea my crush was there so yea, I saw hot air

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

We can use hot air ;-;

[@dinoxman8584]

@@eczplaysgamesyt2885 Well you know how tornadoes work so maybe not her.

[@mcerruti77]

I was looking for this comment.

[@jeffelkins426]

Why were hot air balloons being shown several times when talking about helium?

[@doodleblockwell2610]

That was really annoying me too.

[@CorrieSloot]

That angered my blood.

[@Gmackematix]

Here's a job for you, teaboy. Just stick in some pictures of balloons at that point in the video...

[@xxpbfoolxx]

I went to the comments for this lol

[@psyclone500tv8]

Because it fits with what the entire first half of this video was about, which was the history of helium

[@joey86bu1]

This reminds me of the peak oil scare we had back in the 80's.

[@stn985]

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.

[@ety1221]

They don't use propane per se, they use HOT AIR, the HOT AIR is generated by burning propane.

[@robert_1998]

RLL: Talks about helium balloons Also RLL: Shows hor air balloons

[@icarus_2625]

Hor air balloons lol

[@realcanadian96]

Welcome to hor air All our flight attendants are hors.

[@Reynning]

Yay hor balloons

[@AdeleAdkinsfan7]

Should've narrated this video after inhaling Helium xD

[@passico9227]

xD.... Welcome back 2012

[@afinoxi]

But do you know what he should've done even more ? Help the poor settlements. If he didn't , you should. Here , I'll mark them on our map.

[@Nothing-1w3]

@@afinoxi not again.....

[@eczplaysgamesyt2885]

@@afinoxi nobody cares this is America

[@Shaman42069]

Maybe you should have helped that settlement I just marked on your map

[@anm10wolvorinenotapanther32]

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?!

[@diacriticsrue260]

I can’t stand anime girls’ voices.

[@tobydickinson2709]

Nothing is smoother than this guys ability to transition into a sponsor

[@pleasedontdothis.9878]

I saw it coming from a mile away.

[@aatmanpatel5608]

25 year old in 2100: So why did we run out of helium? We in 2100: We blew too many party balloons with helium. 😂😂😂

[@markusisaksson6023]

🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🤣

[@tedkaczynski3126]

We in 2100

[@anthonyitaliano7316]

@@tedkaczynski3126 found the impostor

[@afinoxi]

Everybody will ask "Where is helium ?" never "How is helium ?"

[@6z0]

Wow that was funny

[@pulkitmohta8964]

Why is everybody copy pasting the same joke but changing one word in it?

[@siennaq5553]

@@6z0 no it was not. Helium (a gas) does not have felling's. How do you even...

[@6z0]

@@siennaq5553 No fuckin shit. I was being sarcastic

[@afinoxi]

@@siennaq5553 I don't like doing this partner but uh... Wooosh.

[@afiqsaf1]

The way he pronounced Qatar as ‘cutter’ made me laugh

[@j.s.7335]

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.

[@forcyland]

i thought it's "quey-der"

[@hanibachi3719]

@@forcyland the right pronunciation is cutter

[@OliverSG1]

@@j.s.7335 It's pronounced Ka Tar.

[@OliverSG1]

@@hanibachi3719 no, it's Ka Tar.

[@rogersledz6793]

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me to get through the pandemic!

[@afinoxi]

I dunno about that but I read that title as "World's Heroin Problem" Now I kinda want that video

[@0V3RDR1VE]

For your comment I remembered about Heroine BiBi

[@TJ-nz8oc]

Yeah we don't have enough heroin we need more.

[@Kixtii]

Lmao

[@WoaHusko]

It’s all fun and games until our voices are high forever.

[@AxxLAfriku]

One thing! Just one thing! Please tell IT to me: WHY tf do I have so many fans even though no KZbinr is unprettier than I am? WORLDWIDE!!!! WHY??? Tell me, dear fej

[@eczplaysgamesyt2885]

@@AxxLAfriku f. U

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

@@AxxLAfriku Yesn’t

[@dinoxman8584]

@@AxxLAfriku I- actually that’s a really good question. *Why?*

[@lamowkachow4597]

@@AxxLAfriku bots. like you, bots aren't real

[@boeman6702]

Qatar: exists RealLifeLore: *Cutter*

[@disclaimer.imjokin]

😂😂

[@thenickstrikebetter]

I think its funnier that im pretty sure "cutter" is closer to the offical pronunciation than something like "ca-tar"

[@taylorindebt]

@@thenickstrikebetter true pronunciation of Qatar is “kuh-taar”

[@thenickstrikebetter]

@@taylorindebt i heard that "cutter" was actually more accurate, but "ca-tar" is accepted since everyone gets it wrong.

[@reinl7]

This video was an especially good one! Thank you!!!

[@jacks5kids]

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.

[@nuzayerov]

2:15 America: Where we use Olympic Sized Swimming Pools to measure things.

[@eczplaysgamesyt2885]

Gasses*

[@cahinton.]

Would people in other countries be able to immediately visualize 30 quadrillion liters or whatever 400,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools equates to?

[@jbird4478]

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.

[@nuzayerov]

@@cahinton., of course I was joking though. I myself find these comparisons to be better for visualisation than using any form of units.

[@ilgaplaukismetalhead]

@@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

[@TheJustina102085]

I’m truly shocked at the storage method used for the national reserve.. great video!

[@AkisHajittofi]

Interesting! Other than balloons, I was completely unaware of the other uses of helium. This video just is just reminding me how much I've forgotten from science at school and college 😅

[@bobbyrobs]

Honestly filling up our balloons is the cutest excuse for space exploration

[@spacedog127]

RLL: Helium Problem Me, in an insanely high voice: Sorry what?

[@peterthepanda]

We need to stop laughing using "hehehe" to save on Helium.

[@sllk2914]

I love how you find creative ways to connect Skillshare to whatever the video is about 😁

[@DanCooper404]

Do a shot every time he says "critical."

[@jurrehuizinga7136]

No thanks, i like living to much.

[@Azurath100]

now do it with Everclear

[@ax8621]

how 'bout everytime he said Skillshare?

[@storytellerstudiostm9409]

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!?"*

[@kylerluo4544]

rip :(

[@randomguywithagun]

imagine seeing a grammar/spelling nerd, i can definitely see it already

[@Gmackematix]

I guess you could say the price of helium...*takes off glasses*...has ballooned.

[@storytellerstudiostm9409]

@@Gmackematix lol

[@kylerluo4544]

@@Gmackematix haha good one!

[@iplayeddsharpminor]

Balloons really are pointless when you think about it - wastes a rare gas which can be used for space travel and coolant and then ends up in some landfill before choking a turtle somewhere

[@RIPPaulWalker33]

I was literally thinking about this topic like 2 days ago and then this shows up in my recommended and I was shook

[@sleek4255]

this appeared on my recommended as soon as it got released wtf

[@void_skyy]

same

[@DusekaOfficial]

*ALGORITHM*

[@sm8tal229]

same

[@antonipolski9569]

Same

[@u5vl_]

same

[@-ANDY.]

0:28 why did he show a hot air balloon? 😅 Am i missing something??

[@Mr21December2012]

No, I would guess he is just cheap and could not find free/cheap stock footage of tethered balloons 😅

[@sangokudbz79]

Just clicked this video to see if you got a new mic, not having watched vid in a while. Glad you did!

[@nthkeoaeosntuhaeosnu]

i been hearing about this so called shortage for decades. There was a huge gasoline shortage in 1974 when i was a teenager. Then the prices shot way up and its been fine for 47 years now

[@MenacingPerson]

we are still running out, thats why we are using electric cars now or atleast trying to.

[@machupikachu1085]

2022: Well, that comment aged badly

[@lazy3321]

Hey RealLifeLore, I Really enjoy ur videos it helps my learning!😄

[@julianlieb929]

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.

[@mmshasan]

Another nice installment. Already watched it on *Nebula*

[@jackbenimblejack1]

everytime i see helium ballon at the grocery store like the ones i saw yesterday... superbowl and valentines day ballons.. i cry like the italian guy in the littering commercials from the 70s and 80s

[@vigneshgopinath1945]

So nobody gonna talk about the nostalgic, peaceful music playing in the background?

[@dinoxman8584]

no

[@fallendown8828]

Nah party baloons are better topic

[@nahomabreham]

What is the name of the song

[@Gmackematix]

For a video about helium I would expect very light music.

[@blizzxeno2125]

Could you do a geography rating video on every country, or at least Europe, like you did on France and some other countries ? It doesn't have to be one video for every country, maybe one (longer) on every continent? I think that would be pretty nice!

[@fernandocarrazzoni]

The music you used could not have possibly been more beautiful.

[@mal2ksc]

I would have said "when Hell freezes over", but... (/me points at Amarillo, TX right now)

[@512TheWolf512]

Time to go mine Jupiter, boys!

[@meneither3834]

It costs like... 100 minerals.

[@zethicalyt2406]

“Mine Jupiter” Me and the boys mining a giant cloud of material

[@th3oryO]

@@zethicalyt2406 less mining and more giant vacuum

[@ymj4256]

You know Uranus and Neptune are easier to mind right? And we'll likely mine them for fusion fuel. Which produces helium.

[@zjean3417]

Jupiter has no solid surface.

[@reesespieces8173]

No one: Absolutely not a single person: RealLifeLore: "Cutter"

[@jerrywu615]

Fun fact: SpaceX's Starship, the vehicle that will (most likely) allow interplanetary transportation, will actually not be using helium for pressurization. It will instead use its normal propellants (autogenous pressurization), methane and oxygen, which are much more attainable (methane can be produced using hydrogen and CO2).

[@xygomorphic44]

The Chernobyl workers reported that in the most radioactive zones, people's voices would get higher. I think it's likely that was caused by helium being generated constantly from the intense alpha radiation. Alpha particles are 2 protons and 2 newtons thrown off a radioactive atom, and they'll react with pretty much any nearby thing to become ordinary helium.

[@SPROUTING-SENSES]

Helium will run out soon if we don't stop using it on birthdays and parties

[@TheOwenMajor]

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.

[@shivrajio]

@@TheOwenMajor Supply and demand. The Holy words of our civilisation.

[@kylerluo4544]

@@TheOwenMajor Exactly what I was thinking.

[@JastwatchingYT]

@@TheOwenMajor And healthcare must be extremely scarce in the USA since it costs so much without insurance!

[@JastwatchingYT]

@@TheOwenMajor I am also sure if supply and demand was met then people would love to buy helium balloons for $20 each and business would be booming!

[@shamsudeenma1928]

Humanity: Not doing anything to advance space travel. Helium reserves: Fine, I'll do it myself.

[@Notmyname1593]

Some scientist: Hey, I made He in my nuclear fusion reactor.

[@shamsudeenma1928]

@@Notmyname1593 You can do that but it's very inefficient rn

[@cloudkitt]

If we ever figure out sustainable fusion reactors we'd be making our own, yeah? Or would the amounts be too small to be useful?

[@kutay6590]

the only reason we’re running out of He is that we keep wasting it while solving ideal gas equations

[@realdylanoof]

I've never been this early to a RealLifeLore video, feels like an achievement.

[@Ryan-xi4tm]

Disliked

[@TJfromEarth]

its not

[@MrBigjoecincy]

You're funny with the hot air balloon in the beginning. I'm assuming that was a joke haha

[@jameswest4819]

It exists in large quantities in the Helium Belt near the international Space Station. Also, it freezes at a lower temperature than hydrogen. The Rocky Mountains have some newly discovered sources deep in their structure. We may not be running out of helium after all (newatlas.com)

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Very interesting and worthwhile video.

[@ichkuessdich]

Hello! This is your daily reminder to drink water! Stay hydrated guys :)

[@ANTSMR_Dango]

My body reminds me everytime. Noone needs random reminder.

[@ichkuessdich]

@@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 :)

[@AlejandroIrujo]

@@ichkuessdich thanks man I appreciate you

[@ichkuessdich]

@@AlejandroIrujo YOU are appreciated!

[@EricMBlog]

I like that you kept showing hot air balloons in there 😂

[@rodericktodd1647]

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.

[@xanderjames8682]

We'll still have sulfur hexaflouride😁

[@michaelkimnguyen]

Dude I just looked up the helium thing he was talking about. That's true. That's like 100% e-everything he said was true. It's all gonna be gone.

[@echovd7824]

This was so well timed after corridor digitals video lmao

[@zlodevil426]

1 view, 199 likes. This is the most I’ve ever seen

[@helloitssasha5129]

i have 1 view/352 likes /3 dislikes

[@kostaskoulis4463]

1 view 353 likes i beat you

[@ahmedhz2279]

1view 600 likes

[@theveganricemonk]

1 view so beautiful

[@aidancahill9924]

Yeah for me 1 view but only 34 likes

[@patrickstarkey3399]

Congrats on 4mil!!!!!

[@hunterlewis3087]

One Biproduct of Fusion reactions is Helium. So if we can get Helium-3 from the moon and perfect a Fusion reactor then we can essentially have tons of power and a new source of Helium

[@jdvlogs1820]

Congratulations on 4 million subscribers 🎉

[@isaacmartinez442]

We thought we would be mining asteroids for gold, diamonds and other valuable metals but turns out we will probably be getting helium instead lol

[@AA-fn9xz]

This is strangely coincidental! I was Googling this for a while the other day, because I was wondering why Helium is allowed to be wasted in balloons.

[@jedclarke2001]

I like how the graph at 5:20 is data that hasn't even been collected yet because it is in the future.

[@wanderlustwarrior]

Archer: "JESUS, Lana, the Helium!"

[@wanderlustwarrior]

"CAPTAIN LAMMERS??!!" "Nice read, Velma."

[@gm9413]

"lana... Lana... LANA.... LANAAAAAA"

[@faheemrehman5919]

Please make a video on "what if japanese empire reunited in one country"

[@harrybarodawala3588]

In interesting thing about Helium being so rare is it is mostly a chemistry issue. We have plenty of sodium (Na) and plenty of chlorine (Cl) and so as an example if we mix those together, we get salt (NaCl). But since Helium is a stable gas, there are no two elements that can make Helium, so we are pretty much just stuck with the Helium that exists on Earth.

[@brownboidev]

Can we appreciate that RLL makes learning interesting?

[@gabemaycock6496]

3D Squelton loves balloons

[@ericgulseth74]

1980: "We will run out of oil by 2020." 2020: "We will run out of helium by 2060."

[@alexpotts6520]

As far as I'm aware pretty, helium is recyclable in pretty much all of its applications. So in theory, you could extend the supplies pretty much indefinitely, if you recycled it well enough. But... it's so difficult to keep helium contained, because it's so determined to float up into the atmosphere and disappear into space. Helium recapture systems are going to be a huge thing.

[@robertlunsford1350]

Love how it shows hot air balloons and uses a CT video when talking about MRI.

[@bobbythekidd4712]

Me: wants to watch this video late at night without my parents noticing *turns on captions KZbin: vitemise is all we got... Why

[@pvtklomps3855]

You forgot about welding with helium gas, while other industries can get a good use out of helium welding you’re literally pissing helium out of the bottle to weld when they’re are alternative gases

[@IAMSTULITTLE]

Pretty sure they found a massive Helium reserve in the Rift Valley, Tanzania in 2016 that dwarfs the US reserve?

[@toyotahilux5862]

Great video but I have to point out that using feet for depth and meters for volume is really confusing. Could the animators please put both imperial and metric in the same animation

[@daltonmullins7045]

Is anyone going the most mention the fact that he pronounced Qatar like “Cuter”?

[@patrickmoody9367]

Lmao I read this comment literally the second I heard him say that heretical pronounciation

[@uapnz0698]

OK Dulton.

[@Think_Inc]

That’s how Indians pronounce it.

[@netkosent1620]

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.

[@shanmolla2748]

Disclaimer:No Toyota Corolla was harmed during making of this video.

[@ezoid5431]

Lol

[@Rash7]

Lol

[@greibert1447]

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't helium the "nuclear waste" of fusion reactors, so once it works (estimates for the ITER reactor in France are positive) it shouldn't be a problem anymore?

[@Pete856]

Half the helium balloons used could safely use hydrogen instead. I'm not suggesting filling party balloons with hydrogen and placing them in your house...bad things might happen. But all those large weather balloons etc. could safely be filled with hydrogen, fill them outside away from an ignition source...just like you should with the liquid fuels we use. Hydrogen has many advantages, it's much cheaper, there's no shortage of it and it's a much lighter gas so you either get more lifting capacity or you use a smaller balloon.