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Originally posted by blownaway
if im correct helium is lethal lol. yeas i know about funny balloon voice u do it non stop ur brain will fry. my aunts cousin died from hellium on a dare she died seizuring. but mixed with oxygen i dunno?
Originally posted by signalfire
It seems like if it 'can't be synthesized' and it's 'non-renewable' that substitutes may be looked for and found when the need arises.
For something so potentially valuable, it's still awful cheap.
And am I the only one who ever wonders if helium balloons have ever caused an airplane accident?
Has one ever been reported to have been sucked into the air intake of a jet engine?
Birds are bad enough...
Originally posted by cartesia
I know they dont float, but I'm all for replacing helium balloons with nitrous oxide balloons
Originally posted by blownaway
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
what about pure helium can it really kill? i know freeon if it leaks and you smoke a cigaret it well set off a chemical reaction the tip glows green the smoke taste sweet u fall over dead. its bad news. from what i can remember its freeon that does it. only with fire like a cigaret and drawing off it. are is that halon?
Originally posted by roughycannon
I heard about this years ago, there's tons of it throughout the universe but not here on earth so in the future we might be able to mine it, Jupiter has lots I think...
It seems like if it 'can't be synthesized' and it's 'non-renewable' that substitutes may be looked for and found when the need arises.
if im correct helium is lethal
I'll take the possible crisis in 3 decades for the smiles it puts on little kids faces today.
And am I the only one who ever wonders if helium balloons have ever caused an airplane accident?