• @[email protected]
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    1371 year ago

    please use hydrogen and not helium if you do this.

    Helium is a precious, essential, non-renewable resource that the world is actually running out of.

    • Roundcat
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      381 year ago

      Now I’m just imagining them coming back down, combusting, and people thinking the war of Armageddon has begun.

      • atocci
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        131 year ago

        Is this why I can’t just go to the party store and buy hydrogen filled balloons?

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Yes, you really don’t want an unplanned indoors Hindenburg reenactment because someone got too close to the birthday cake. Also it’s difficult to store

        • R0cket_M00se
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          51 year ago

          “The fuck made you think Paul was so important?! The dude was one of the false prophets Jesus warned about, you morons!” -St. Peter, probably

      • Bizarroland
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        61 year ago

        Better yet, attach a small explosive to them so once they get enough attention and people think the rapture is coming they suddenly burst into flames and explode.

        That way the Christians really won’t know what to think.

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      That’s something I find funny. The second most abundant element in the universe and we’re running out of our supply.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 year ago

        It’s not a laughing matter. The world used to be He He He He He He He but soon there’ll be no more He He He.

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        Because we don’t have spaceships to go out into the universe to collect it, so all we have is what has been trapped in deposits underground.

        and a lot of it has been wasted on stupid shit like party balloons, and the overwhelming majority of the population does not understand how critically important helium is to manufacturing and medicine.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          I don’t know, but I feel like the party industry pales in comparison to industrial users. Do you have any reliable numbers?

    • stebo
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      101 year ago

      You’re right but the real advice is: just don’t do this at all. These balloons pollute our oceans and forests.

      • Radioactive Radio
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        11 year ago

        Fuck the ocean, everything in there is scary and dangerous, we should nuke the sharks. Mostly /s

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          The height of “edgy” in the Eighties was a “Nuke a Gay Whale for Jesus” bumper sticker.

        • stebo
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          we’ve already done that. mostly. no /s unfortunately

    • @wischi
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      81 year ago

      What could go wrong.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Scarcity smarcity - do it so you can attach tiny timed fireworks to them, at the feet so they float upright and then EXPLODE at like 1000 feet

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        No, its literally lighter than air. it floats out into space, and it is not in a dense enough concentration where its possible to reharvest anyway.