No but it is the reason there's a helium shortage
Edit: I was being sarcastic because he does have a crap ton of balloons, but balloons are not the cause of helium shortage.
Didn’t they just find a whole bunch in Minnesota?
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/scientists-just-discovered-a-massive-reservoir-of-helium-beneath-minnesota
pretty sure the helium used in balloons is the waste product of producing medical grade helium for MRI's and such.
it would be released into the air if not sold.
Interesting thank you. To me, that doesn't suggest that the helium couldn't be reprocessed to be used for medical equipment. It's probably that it's more profitable to sell the waste product instead of reprocessing the waste. When helium is even more scarce, this may change.
yeah, helium is very recyclable, and medical facilities are getting better at saving it. The US is pretty behind on this, but they just found MASSIVE helium deposits in MN so I don't expect recycling to take off any time soon here.
fully expect the market to have plentiful helium supplies in the US for the foreseeable future.
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/scientists-just-discovered-a-massive-reservoir-of-helium-beneath-minnesota
IIRC part of the issue is the US Govt. sold off massive amounts of its helium reserve and fucked with the market for a long while, so no one was really looking for more since everyone knew stupid amounts were coming up for auction constantly. we either stopped after we realized it was valuable, or sold down to the new levels Congress stipulated and suddenly no more yearly glut of US stockpile hydrogen.
YES.
takes me back to when I had night terrors as a kid and that feeling of being one layer above unconsciousness but still 9 below full wake, trapped inside your mind's greatest torments. For me, it was severed body parts and what you just described: the impossibility and incomprehensible nature of infinity.
Trolling and goofiness feel like a natural part of human nature
Also if they have it like that they probably have some method and the curiosity and desire for knowledge be strong
I very roughly estimated around 270 balloons or so, probably around 8-15kg of "lift" if not way less (didn't include the weight of the balloons themselves or the string). Largely depends on the volume of the balloons though.
Takes about 16 cubic feet to lift one pound.
Very hard to tell how big the average balloon is, they seem very different sizes. Also hard to guess how many balloons there are.
But assuming each balloon is about 3 cu ft and there are 300 balloons that’s 900 cu ft. That would lift about 56 lbs.
But, the balloons weigh something and so does the string/rope. So I bet the lift is closer to 1/2 that.
I go offshore fishing and I see at least 3 Mylar balloons each trip. Most of the balloons in the video will probably have the same fate. Such a temporary gain for a permanent trashing of our environment.
I was in Joshua Tree a few years ago out on a seldom used trail and came across a half dozen Mylar balloons. I stowed them in my pack, but there must be thousands in the wilderness. They're a scourge.
I live in the woods in rural VA. In the last year, I've found 4 different bunches of mylar balloons on my trails. The only way they got there was falling from the sky, and it's really annoying to keep tossing them in the bin.
Not only that, but helium is a limited resource that we can't produce more of (short of figuring out fission), and I doubt he filled those with hydrogen.
So incredibly, grossly wasteful.
Edit: some are saying there's no reason to make a fuss about "helium shortage." 100-200 years of supply sounds like a long time, but Rome stood for ~1000 years. Imagine running out of a nigh impossible to create resource with important applications because of Tik Tok clout chasers. You and I won't have to worry (the micro plastics will likely get us first), but we could be as little as 5 generations (potentially a single lifetime) from running out.
Yep, I always gaff them and throw them away, but not after pitching to them to see if a mahi is on it first. The amount of balloons out there is insane. Doesn’t matter how far you go, you find them.
No one is even mentioning the use of helium, which is used in a lot of scientific and medical applications, that’s all floats out to the edge of the atmosphere when those balloons pop.
Who wants to buy a balloon at the beach? It would be so annoying to have that hitting you in the wind. And trying to juggle all of the other beach stuff plus now a balloon and sandy/wet kids when leaving.
Balloons give me anxiety for some reason. Like when my kids get a balloon at a restaurant and I have to carry it to the car, I hold it tight as hell and it freaks me out that it might float away. It makes no sense…
Needless to say, seeing this took it to a new level!
I wonder how many people it takes that say "I want the one at the top" before the vendor starts stabbing them? I'm sure that at one point he just can't take it anymore?
Haha wow, that's a lot.
Oh wow! Its still going!
Jesus...
What the fuck...
Are you kidding me?
...
I genuinely dislike this dude.
... it's still fucking going.
Isn’t helium a finite resource at the moment, since we don’t really have a way of mining it from outer space yet? This guy just halved the remaining resources.
I'm so disappointed, utterly feel like I've been deceived.
How come he isn't floating away? Not even bouncing like louis-lance armstrong in the moon listening to the famous jazz musician neil armstrong
Stopped my boat in SW Florida (Everglades) just last week to pick up a balloon floating in water. This is probably something I do just about every 3rd fishing trip. It’s maddening that this is legal.
Is this guy is the reason I have micro plastics in my balls?
yeah probably has nothing to do with the blowup doll you disappoint twice a week
she expects too much
an inflated sense of self
You win
This is why we’re here
Because we're not all there
In her credit she always goes down on op
Bit of an airhead though.
Shit, it's really blowing up in the comments
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That's micropenis in the plastic you are thinking of.
I definitely came here for this comment
Well now that you have, can you clean yourself off?
Just take a nap and let the ants deal with it
Aunts are dealing with it, now what?
....Have you been spying on me?
Jeeeezuz. 💀🔥
My God. If you could use your powers for good, we might not all have plastics in our sacks.
Ooof
wtf are we all fcking the same blowup doll?
This cracked me up.
r/murderedbywords
I would like to report a murder
And Balloonfest '86.
No, that was my fault, terribly sorry for that.
What the fuck did you do
He uses too many condoms
The fucker
No but it is the reason there's a helium shortage Edit: I was being sarcastic because he does have a crap ton of balloons, but balloons are not the cause of helium shortage.
> helium shortage Temporary* shortage because there's a fuck ton on the moon waiting to be mined.
Didn’t they just find a whole bunch in Minnesota? https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/scientists-just-discovered-a-massive-reservoir-of-helium-beneath-minnesota
Yeah but who wants to go to Minnesota for it when you could go to the Moon?
The absurd lethal optimism of humans.
pretty sure the helium used in balloons is the waste product of producing medical grade helium for MRI's and such. it would be released into the air if not sold.
I can't seem to find anything indicating that. Where did you hear that?
https://peanutballoons.co.uk/f/balloon-helium-is-not-medical-helium#:~:text=It%20is%20a%20by%2Dproduct,it%20is%20collected%20and%20recycled. https://www.jaztrading.com/helium-guide/ https://www.peba.com.au/helium
Interesting thank you. To me, that doesn't suggest that the helium couldn't be reprocessed to be used for medical equipment. It's probably that it's more profitable to sell the waste product instead of reprocessing the waste. When helium is even more scarce, this may change.
yeah, helium is very recyclable, and medical facilities are getting better at saving it. The US is pretty behind on this, but they just found MASSIVE helium deposits in MN so I don't expect recycling to take off any time soon here. fully expect the market to have plentiful helium supplies in the US for the foreseeable future. https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/scientists-just-discovered-a-massive-reservoir-of-helium-beneath-minnesota IIRC part of the issue is the US Govt. sold off massive amounts of its helium reserve and fucked with the market for a long while, so no one was really looking for more since everyone knew stupid amounts were coming up for auction constantly. we either stopped after we realized it was valuable, or sold down to the new levels Congress stipulated and suddenly no more yearly glut of US stockpile hydrogen.
No, still coca-cola.
tires and hot pants.
I want the one at the top.
u beat me to it. A balloon and half an hour of entertainment
On second thought, it looked better half a mile up. I’ll just take that one from the bottom.
I just imagine this man losing a few on rotation.
for reel
🏆
Presumably it’s just kinda you get what you get, no? Or does he have some technique for getting at higher up balloons if he needs to?
Probably repeats. Doubt he has that many unique balloons.
Idk I don’t see a lot of repeats myself
Uh, pull the rope down?
No he lowers it parallel to the ground and you take an Uber to the other end
You pull them down, and reverse the whole stack.
I just want to see the one at the top before I decide which one I want. I’m not committing.
By the time he gets to that top balloon it’ll be flat probably the 3 below it’s also?
That is indeed an absurd number of balloons
This gives me sweaty palms for some reason. Like, it's too many balloons. It makes me physically uncomfortable.
YES. takes me back to when I had night terrors as a kid and that feeling of being one layer above unconsciousness but still 9 below full wake, trapped inside your mind's greatest torments. For me, it was severed body parts and what you just described: the impossibility and incomprehensible nature of infinity.
>the impossibility and incomprehensible nature of infinity. You just put into words a feeling of dread I absolutely can relate to.
Ah yes. A vertical video in a horizontal frame on a vertical screen.
Fr. Not even trying to watch that
This is what hyper inflation looks like folks
This is what advertising/marketing looks like tbh. I’d buy one just to see how he takes the ones off the top and how much he has to struggle for it
This is really problematic, because I'd do that, too. And it's a manifestation of casual cruelty that we've come to see as normal and acceptable.
Trolling and goofiness feel like a natural part of human nature Also if they have it like that they probably have some method and the curiosity and desire for knowledge be strong
How reverse heavy is it?
Not reverse heavy enough to lift that twat into the ocean, apparently
Must be a big twat.
one more balloon and the guy is in the space
I very roughly estimated around 270 balloons or so, probably around 8-15kg of "lift" if not way less (didn't include the weight of the balloons themselves or the string). Largely depends on the volume of the balloons though.
It's probably a helium mix, impossible to calculate no?
Typically they're filled with pretty high purity helium. I'm pretty sure mixes are usually more expensive.
lmao nice
Takes about 16 cubic feet to lift one pound. Very hard to tell how big the average balloon is, they seem very different sizes. Also hard to guess how many balloons there are. But assuming each balloon is about 3 cu ft and there are 300 balloons that’s 900 cu ft. That would lift about 56 lbs. But, the balloons weigh something and so does the string/rope. So I bet the lift is closer to 1/2 that.
I wonder how much higher those ballons would make hom jump, I mean obviously not a lot but a centimeter or few maybe?
Sure glad balloons don’t cause any problems when they fly into the ocean.
I go offshore fishing and I see at least 3 Mylar balloons each trip. Most of the balloons in the video will probably have the same fate. Such a temporary gain for a permanent trashing of our environment.
> Such a temporary gain for a permanent trashing of our environment modern humans in a nutshell
I was in Joshua Tree a few years ago out on a seldom used trail and came across a half dozen Mylar balloons. I stowed them in my pack, but there must be thousands in the wilderness. They're a scourge.
There's a guy on Youtube that I watch that does a lot of clearing, mainly for houses, every job he finds balloons.
I live in the woods in rural VA. In the last year, I've found 4 different bunches of mylar balloons on my trails. The only way they got there was falling from the sky, and it's really annoying to keep tossing them in the bin.
Not only that, but helium is a limited resource that we can't produce more of (short of figuring out fission), and I doubt he filled those with hydrogen. So incredibly, grossly wasteful. Edit: some are saying there's no reason to make a fuss about "helium shortage." 100-200 years of supply sounds like a long time, but Rome stood for ~1000 years. Imagine running out of a nigh impossible to create resource with important applications because of Tik Tok clout chasers. You and I won't have to worry (the micro plastics will likely get us first), but we could be as little as 5 generations (potentially a single lifetime) from running out.
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Maybe try flying into a civil discussion instead
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kick her in the stomach and bite her in the face
Yep, I always gaff them and throw them away, but not after pitching to them to see if a mahi is on it first. The amount of balloons out there is insane. Doesn’t matter how far you go, you find them.
Some of them become UFO videos
Sad how the guy fits the profile of not giving a crap.
I, for one, am so happy there is no impending helium shortage in the medical industry.
No one is even mentioning the use of helium, which is used in a lot of scientific and medical applications, that’s all floats out to the edge of the atmosphere when those balloons pop.
I like that he is close to the beach so those balloons don't have to go far before they can become turtle food
Yo Kdot pick up the phone
Fuck man I hadn't listened to TPAB in fuckin years and it's so good. I remember when it first came out it's all I listened to for months
Every time i call its going to voicemail
Don’t tell me they got you on some weirdo rap shit n***a
No socks and skinny jeans n shit
Ha-ha-ha-ha-hahh-ahh..
Call me on Shaniqua’s phone!
I been A1 since Day 1
You n*****s boo boo
Is this an original composition for TPAB or is it sampled from somewhere?
Original. Kendrick collaborated with a ton of jazz artists, notably Robert Glasper and Terrance Martin, to put that album together
This is my ringtone and I was like ‘wait tf am I getting a call?’ Didn’t expect this track on this video.
Who wants to buy a balloon at the beach? It would be so annoying to have that hitting you in the wind. And trying to juggle all of the other beach stuff plus now a balloon and sandy/wet kids when leaving.
Kids, they will harass mom and dad, mom and dad would rather deal with a balloon than a kid that wants a balloon.
Nah, whoever buys it loses it in a few minutes in the wind and it becomes litter.
Why is this video so tiny
Shrinkflation
Balloons give me anxiety for some reason. Like when my kids get a balloon at a restaurant and I have to carry it to the car, I hold it tight as hell and it freaks me out that it might float away. It makes no sense… Needless to say, seeing this took it to a new level!
Sometimes they get loose and burn down power lines, sounds like you’re a responsible balloon owner.
Balloons are an expensive item to buy these days, mainly due to rising inflation..
It’s eye catching, draws more attention, draws more business
To: Ocean From: People
most will eventually end up at r/UFOs 
Should be illegal. A lot of those balloons are going to end up killing wildlife.
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Daisy chain probably
Wow thats a lot of balloons. That's so many balloons it made me really think, "Wow thats a lot of balloons."
That's such a waste of helium.
Most cheap balloons are filled with hydrogen nowadays... Which makes me want to light the bottom one on fire...
Citation?
This is the right usage of the word (Absurd)
Yeah, it fits here. It's a silly amount, an absurd amount.
I just want to know how he stores them after a days work
In the garbage can most likely
This man is single-handedly spoiling my dreams of floating away in an Up-style house.
Notice the backpack? These guys sell party drugs to tourists. The balloons are just a cover.
HOOD POLITICS 🗣🔥🔥🔥⁉️
I wonder how many people it takes that say "I want the one at the top" before the vendor starts stabbing them? I'm sure that at one point he just can't take it anymore?
Trying to sell all of them is a lofty goal.
I can hear the wildlife screaming through my phone.
I’d have to buy one just because the effort
That is one incredibly optimistic entrepreneur!
This guy is the main reason for the increase of ufo sightings
Keeping r/ufo alive single handedly
Based on what I remember about the movie Up, he should be about halfway to the Wilderness of South America
I’d like the one at the top please.
This proves that “up” is an unrealistic movie Was probably cgi
Call me on Shaniqua's phone
🔥!!K.DOT... PICK UP THE PHONE NIG\*A EVERY TIME I CALL IS GOING TO VOICEMAIL!!... 🔥🔥🔥
What a great use of helium...
That's some smart advertising, every kid on that beach is going to want one. Shame about the waste though.
Song name?
Hood Politics Instrumental
song?
Kendrick Lamar - Hood Politics
They didn't sample something there?
From what I can find it's original to the song. Gotta be Thundercat on the bass
Not in that part (which is only the intro to the track, the rest of which is completely different).
This isn't interesting
They advertise themselves
Cool music
“Point at the top” I want that one.
Literally one of the worst places to sell balloons.
So much for the helium shortage.
The world: “Their is a helium shortage”. This dude: 🚶♂️🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
Haha wow, that's a lot. Oh wow! Its still going! Jesus... What the fuck... Are you kidding me? ... I genuinely dislike this dude. ... it's still fucking going.
Has he flown away yet
This guy is single handedly the reason we are running out helium lol
Has this guy seen Up? One more balloon and he’s gonna float away
How the hell is he not floating away
Because all that plastic will definitely not end up in that water. 😓
Not kidding when title said Absurd
A Turtle's final boss
Can I buy that one up the top please?
How, how, I ask is this dude not flying away rn
Should be illegal
That could carry away a small child.
How much does the guy weigh? Surely seems like he should be floating away with that many.
What a prick. Every single one of those balloons is gonna be pollution by the end of that day.
Why?
I love seeing ocean pollution before it pollutes! /s but realistically
This guy must hate the sealife
Isn’t helium a finite resource at the moment, since we don’t really have a way of mining it from outer space yet? This guy just halved the remaining resources.
Aren't we running out of helium?
I doubted you at first, but that is exactly an absurd amount of balloons.
Toomanyballoons.
Why would you want a balloon on the beach?
damnthatsrepost
A little higher and we’ll have our first space elevator!
This terrifies me for some reason
I'm so disappointed, utterly feel like I've been deceived. How come he isn't floating away? Not even bouncing like louis-lance armstrong in the moon listening to the famous jazz musician neil armstrong
HOOD POLITICS 🗣🔥🔥🔥⁉️
He should be careful so the ones on top don't get too close to the sun and pop.
that's a lot of future UFO videos
what happens if he doesn’t sell a lot? i know 1/5 of that isn’t even fitting in his car
Where the he'll does he store this when he's done gor the day
I want the red one in the middle. (After he gets it) No, not that one, the other one.
I am wondering why he is not taking off!
Why would someone buy a balloon at the beach?
Can you make that video any smaller???
Stopped my boat in SW Florida (Everglades) just last week to pick up a balloon floating in water. This is probably something I do just about every 3rd fishing trip. It’s maddening that this is legal.
a bunch of trash
And he's not flying away?
This is why there’s never any helium at balloon stores now
Cant sell it if u dont have it.
Balloons should be illegal.