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[–] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 81 points 1 year ago (7 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.

[–] Roundcat@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] atocci@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] peto@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

But easy to make.

[–] johnthedoe@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

St Peter checked them at the gates and all got sent back

[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"God works in mysterious, explosive ways."

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year 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.

[–] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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

[–] siewyuk@monyet.cc 7 points 1 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.

[–] Catweazle@social.vivaldi.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] wischi@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year 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.

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] Ducks@ducks.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Just release them far away from any power lines

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 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.

[–] MechanicalJester@lemm.ee 1 points 1 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

[–] neptune@dmv.social 5 points 1 year ago

Ahhh, the ole Six Feet Under cold opening.

[–] Lazerbeams2@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You need to weigh the feet down, but I'm willing to help. Cheap shoes and duct tape should do the trick

[–] NoStressyJessie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Save the money and waste, just tape some coins to the bottoms of the feet. The bottom doesn’t have to be that much heavier.

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You think coins are cheaper than stones?

[–] NoStressyJessie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

“Shoes” is a really funny spelling of “Stones”

Edit: Got curious, and in my area there aren’t many rocks or stones, so you would have to buy them. They come in bulk between 2 and 3 inches in size at about a dollar a pound. For thirty pounds. Pennies take between 145 and 181 to make a pound depending on the materials of the penny. The pro to coins would be that you didn’t need to buy extra to maintain a precise weight per inflated sex doll, and they could be balanced easily on both feet for weight, where as with stones you would need to make sure you are well balanced for every doll and for every foot. Assuming you could instantly sort them all into evenly weighed piles you would still likely have stones left over, either as excess, or as outliers in our balancing that would be difficult for you to sell or get any other utility from.

In that case, yes, it’s cheaper to use coins because of the time sink and wastage that bulk stones would create, assuming an endless field of stones, the time spent sorting them into sizes and balancing them would cost more in labor than the pennies lost is worth.

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I didn't consider the balancing part, but gravel parking lots negate your other points in my opinion. But, then again, my confusion of shoes and stones negates everything anyway.

[–] NoStressyJessie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The majority of the population in the states resides in metropolitan areas. I am one of them. There are no gravel parking lots. The closest we could come is breaking up the sidewalk antifa style 😉

[–] janNatan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

There's gotta be little stones somewhere. Also, I live in a metro area and there's plenty of gravel around here! It's also in Tennessee, though.

[–] Ferris@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

do you live in space?

[–] z500@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

And go out in the middle of the night before and leave piles of clothes all over town