David Posted October 29, 2012 Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 Helium, or HE, is actually lost to the atmosphere whenever you use it. Yes, that means whenever you have balloons at a party you're squandering one of the most precious non-renewable resources on the planet; an entire element that has completely unique properties. It might be gone in 25-30 years at the current rate, meaning only one generation of humans could ruin it for the entire planet for all time because they lol when things float away. Think about all of the possible future technology you're eliminating by taking an entire element out of the equation. Shame on you, random citizens.http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-the-world-is-running-out-of-helium-2059357.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted October 29, 2012 Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 Guys, calm the fuck down.We can just make some more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 Wait, how did we get it in the first place? I know it isn't a man made element, so did we somehow pull it out of the air? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted October 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 Wait, how did we get it in the first place? I know it isn't a man made element, so did we somehow pull it out of the air?It's a by-product of a natural process. Considering the Earth is like 4.6 billion years old and there's only enough to have lasted us like 100 years, it's created very slowly.There is no way of manufacturing it artificially, and practically all of the world's reserves have been derived as a by-product from the extraction of natural gas, mostly in the giant oil- and gasfields of the American South-west, which historically have had the highest helium concentrations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 It's a by-product of a natural process. Considering the Earth is like 4.6 billion years old and there's only enough to have lasted us like 100 years, it's created very slowly.Gosh, that's even worse than oil, and we have alternatives to oil!What the heck are we doing wasting all this helium on balloons and making our voice sound funny? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 What the heck are we doing wasting all this helium on balloons and making our voice sound funny?That sentence is a lot funnier to me because your avatar is Pee Wee Herman. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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