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[–] [email protected] 65 points 11 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months 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] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

we've already done that. mostly. no /s unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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] 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

@state_electrician @Dubious_Fart, the most abundant element in the universe, not renevable, is human stupidity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Just release them far away from any power lines

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Don't cover the sex dolls in what amounts to thermite and you should be fine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Eh? Can't we just pull it from the air?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months 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.