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Is it possible to lift someone off the ground using just helium balloons? Richard Ambrose and Jonny Phillips battle gravity and the weather in hopes of executing a balloon lift.
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Please tell me I'm not the only person who typed " how many balloons can lift a person"
@Valediction9
6 жыл бұрын
You are not. One year later
@lolamartine7776
6 жыл бұрын
Not at all
@jaythekidd5927
6 жыл бұрын
Michelle - you are not that is still the last thing on my bucket list
@carlkenyon4599
6 жыл бұрын
I just type it too. lets do it'!
@drakencourtorielle
5 жыл бұрын
You are not... I am 2 years late...
"maybe you'd get a little higher if you stopped eating so many pies" "oh really Janice"
@FonutYT
3 жыл бұрын
Cute line
@alesin1992
3 жыл бұрын
@@julias.95 Maybe you'd be less disgusted if you stopped eating so many pies.
@calamityclash0018
2 жыл бұрын
yes thats what they said
and that my friends , is how you spend 5000$ dollars on helium
@MuzikBike
7 жыл бұрын
coulda made hydrogen out of water. Works even better and I doubt he'd be lighting cigarettes mid-flight
@awfullygenericname6783
6 жыл бұрын
Muzik Bike Yeah. Hydrogen is more abundant and lighter than helium. We really need to switch helium and hydrogen
@johnsnow4961
6 жыл бұрын
+phung tran Way too dangerous. Would you give an explosive baloon to your kid?
@yikess4521
6 жыл бұрын
To be an astronaut
@gekas7251
6 жыл бұрын
+John Snow Yeah i would.
Up was so realistic
@112188Francisco
4 жыл бұрын
Expect the part where they get to south america in a day
@imcarlosjr4898
4 жыл бұрын
Hello
@joonajokiniemi2581
4 жыл бұрын
Samaa mieltä.
@teal_buttercup
3 жыл бұрын
@@112188Francisco the whole joke was that it WASN’T realistic
@112188Francisco
3 жыл бұрын
@@teal_buttercup my comment was a joke too 🥴🥴
I love how the narrator was being so neutral throughout the video until the end where she just ROASTED Richard
They didn't take into account the weight of the balloons themselves. That's why it took 18 instead of 14.
Why not go outside when the weather gets better? And attach the man to the ground with a 3km long rope, time to go see the birds weeee :D
@abub4kar862
8 жыл бұрын
i can also hang a rope to my jet ski
@hellboy911333645
7 жыл бұрын
What if one popped
@user-hw8ez1qk9j
7 жыл бұрын
AgentReticent 2
@plutoid3524
6 жыл бұрын
3km of rope weighs an awful lot.
@toppertruthio
6 жыл бұрын
right next to the power lines too
My balloon 🎈 🏃
@fieldsobrietytest4462
8 жыл бұрын
Fuck you, spiderman 2 was the shit!
@oliviagrace205
7 жыл бұрын
🎈 🙋🏼 I Caught it!!
@muffinmonster2634
7 жыл бұрын
You have your balloon back now cos we caught it
@astbach8558
6 жыл бұрын
🎈 🙋
@normalperson7734
6 жыл бұрын
HADIAK7 ojuhhghf
1 balloon is enough to lift a newborn O_O
@Spacious_Potato
6 жыл бұрын
i think you just came up with the best sport ever
@kwebbyboy1622
6 жыл бұрын
How do you know
@aflickingbadger7489
6 жыл бұрын
Epicface232 Sam *My wife is pregnant........ I need to get me one of them balloons!!*
@horuken
6 жыл бұрын
Not a fat one
@vibes6732
6 жыл бұрын
Epicface232 Sam Pff, Who needs a cradle
I remember going to a high school grad at my dad's school (where he taught) when I was 5-years-old. The students tried to lift me off the ground with all the helium balloons! It was so much fun....something I'll always remember. 🎈What a fun learning adventure!
Mr Beast should've watched this...
Unfortunately, these 8' cloudbuster balloons by Pioneer have been discontinued! Thank you for making this video, and now it will serve as a wonderful memory!
I wanna try till the balloons really lift me up there :)
Hmm, the world is in the helium shortage and this is where all of the worlds helium is going, wait to go...
@carolinamar9166
8 жыл бұрын
*way
@AetherBoye
8 жыл бұрын
K, but soon we will get helium from Mars, sooooooo.... That's a thing
@kylerpittman5106
6 жыл бұрын
Bruh helium is a naturally occurring element
@SundriedSage
6 жыл бұрын
KP STOLENMEMERY a rare element that is starting to disappear because of the amounts we are using it and it literally being blown out of the earth since it’s very light weight
@tallskinnywhiteguy
6 жыл бұрын
IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE
Who's here after Mr.Beasts' video?
@zadjalikiller2137
6 жыл бұрын
mee!!!
@charliesoukup9434
6 жыл бұрын
Uh huh
@perrydecosmo4873
6 жыл бұрын
Mee and I'm sure they did it better!!
@wannielam4489
6 жыл бұрын
Poix me
@skydivey
6 жыл бұрын
meeee
Wasted so much Helium :(
@Vousie
9 жыл бұрын
Maybe they should use Hydrogen... (just don't smoke near it) That'll just about halve the number of balloons they'd need.
@xformgame2814
9 жыл бұрын
Really? Hydrogen is twice the lightness when compared to helium, but when compared to oxygen, it is not much lighter than helium. You will need almost the same amount of balloons as you would need if you used helium. Think, if the atmosphere and the air we are in is helium, hydrogen gas would be half as light as helium, but when compared to the air that surrounds us, hydrogen is not much lighter than helium. I hope this clears the myth that Hydrogen can lift twice as much as helium in the air around us.
@EliteAlphaGaming1
9 жыл бұрын
Xform Nan Google the Hindenburg
@awsomesauce03
9 жыл бұрын
Xform Nan I hope you thought over what you just said because I mean its a provable fact that hydrogen lifts more than helium its the lightest element
@AetherBoye
8 жыл бұрын
Soon we will be getting helium from Mars, so, that won't be a problem.
KZread be getting real comfortable with the non skip adds
This sucks, in less than 100 years from now ,helium balloons with a foot of diameter would be worth like 50 bucks because our planet is losing it.
@AetherBoye
8 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but by that time we can get to Mars and harvest helium from there.
@aidanmsf7596
6 жыл бұрын
Conversion mate, the helium will come around again and I don’t see a problem with the shortage
End of the vid savage
@danielkarl3688
8 жыл бұрын
lmao
@nakumori
7 жыл бұрын
Daniel Karl
@Normbox268
7 жыл бұрын
Theseus he said "i'm really jealous"
@sidonacantaragiu1983
6 жыл бұрын
GameHerbz12 ikr
@dovahking6514
6 жыл бұрын
Lol in the last millisecond she says "JO" it sounds like she's about to yell "JOHN".
RIGHT next to power lines! - Brilliant!
"Previously, terrestrial helium was thought to be a non-renewable resource because once released into the atmosphere, it readily escapes into space. However, recent studies suggest that helium is produced deep in the earth by radioactive decay, and that large untapped reserves may exist under the Rocky Mountains in North America and in natural gas reserves"
@m0ther_bra1ned12
8 жыл бұрын
Libbers wont accept that though because we have to keep up this notion that we're killing the planet by having fun. :-/
@HuyLy94
8 жыл бұрын
Motherbrain Jr The planet will be fine without helium. The infrastructure on which modern civilisation is built upon.. not so much
@m0ther_bra1ned12
8 жыл бұрын
Huy Ly Well yah a lot of medical equipment use helium. And its going to run out, and theirs nothing we can do about it. However they did recently find a HUGE natural cache of helium... I cant remember where. Texas I think. Completely ended the helium shortage at least for now. But listen. I work for Walmart. And every Black Friday we fill hundreds of balloons for the displays. When BF is over, we burst ALL of them. Perfectly good balloons. Why? Because the balloons were custom made for Walmart and because of some copyright agreement, we have to destroy them. THATS waist.
@minharmonia
6 жыл бұрын
Ok
What a waste of helium.
@famousplan2693
4 жыл бұрын
Depends on if they put the helium back!
@Yoshi-xu2lt
4 жыл бұрын
What a waste of a human
@Yoshi-xu2lt
4 жыл бұрын
Shj gaming
@jaydeng.divinigracia5856
3 жыл бұрын
SHJ Gaming what a waste of comment
@SirDella
3 жыл бұрын
@@famousplan2693 2:00
Wonderful video friend 💖✌️Lots of love.
Use hydrogen it's 2x lighter.helium is rare don't waste it.
@erlendruud1083
8 жыл бұрын
+rajesh shahi rajesh shahi yea, and its explosive, so you can have some extra fun!
@ellakitty9289
8 жыл бұрын
He's right it's explosive once the balloons would pop and the atoms collide with air there would be an explosion
@icelemontea9244
8 жыл бұрын
And now I remember that airship disaster.
@HuyLy94
8 жыл бұрын
Unless if they were popped with a flame or there was discharge of static electricity I doubt that would happen. The bond between the hydrogen atoms is too strong to be broken at room temperature and also like all flammable gases it needs to be concentrated enough in a given area to combust. Once the balloon pops the hydrogen would would just disperse in the air. As for the Hindenburg it was basically huge balloon like bladders within a bigger balloon like skin with easily enough hydrogen that a spark could've ignited the whole lot if the inner balloons were leaking
@oibecasho778
8 жыл бұрын
addapubl!ccomment
Honestly i might consider making my dream come true this way.
I always wanted to do that! 😄
That looked SO MUCH FUN
I would make them so they don't lift me up but make them so when I jump I go really high, I would like that much more.
Waste of hellium. You know that in 20 years, we probably wont have any hellium left!
@spencerschexsnayder7272
8 жыл бұрын
stfu
@therealsyd1598
8 жыл бұрын
+Spencer Schexsnayder he has a point... You can't deny the facts
@qhbejabhv9fzlnjsr6by29
8 жыл бұрын
man the helium just goes back into the atmosphere, it's not like it miraculously disappears
@OddBranch
8 жыл бұрын
Helium goes to outer space and leaves the athmosphere every time you release it in the air!
@qhbejabhv9fzlnjsr6by29
8 жыл бұрын
It doesn't, it depends on solar winds. Most likely it'll get diluted in the atmosphere...
that looks so fun
That looks fun! For a person who isn’t afraid of heights. But seriously that looks really fun!
Great video. What Balloons do you use? What size? Thanks.
Richard would get nearly as much higher if he stopped eating so many pies 😂💀
This is what Carl should've used
@jacobacevedo3688
6 жыл бұрын
FloralMyTeapot Carl who
@wango6603
6 жыл бұрын
Jacob Acevedo from the movie Up
@jacobacevedo3688
6 жыл бұрын
karl324plays oh k I was thinking the walking dead
@jacobacevedo3688
6 жыл бұрын
funny doge memes boi smh
@dablue1488
6 жыл бұрын
I actually have that movie playing right now...lmao
Those are the most awesome balloons ever! Where can I purchase some of them please?
This is on my bucketlist
THATS ITS SO FUN!!!
It's tingle from Zelda!
@musicchannel2039
6 жыл бұрын
Charlie Batista ya
They could've just done a simple math equation to see how much helium gallons they needed
“Five balloons!” *one proceeds to ascend into heaven*
I wish i had that much helium , i could be mariah carey
O M G I WANNA DO THAT SO BADLY I WANNA FLYYYYYYYY OMG HOW MANY PEOPLE AGREE although it waisting helium
@toppolthecat
9 жыл бұрын
Why does helium meter that much? And by the time we run out, we'll probably be able to find out new ways to get it.
@stevejobe3273
9 жыл бұрын
AlphaRares AJ NO WASTE....GO FOR IT.
@AetherBoye
8 жыл бұрын
Soon we will be getting helium from Mars, so, an entire new planet, and we will be fine
@Anaperius
6 жыл бұрын
toppolthecat meter???
@greenbamboo2928
5 жыл бұрын
We's are likes bads engriss
Lol at the end he is like it’s a me Mario
This looks amazing
OWH MAH GAWD it looks fun
@shayhouchin6984
9 жыл бұрын
Until they go POP!
they didn't account for the weight of the balloons too..
What a perfect location - right next to a overhead power line!
That roast at the end though
the gravity in the video is strong.
@MattJohno2
6 жыл бұрын
But not the buoyancy :)
@spacix4118
6 жыл бұрын
The Confident Gamer I love how you are trying to sound smart when they aren't even on water lmao
@AnimMouse
6 жыл бұрын
TheLegitGamer9071 Do you really think that buoyancy exist only on liquids not gas?
When you find out that the earth has a limited amount of helium.
That was cool!
That pretty much looks fun too me!
David blaine about to do this for real
Oh my gosh. Someone should make a buisness where you can do that! Hahaha!
This video was uploaded on Jan 1, 2013. New Year’s Day. I remember 2013. 2013 was the craziest year on my life
“Maybe you’d get a little higher if you’ve stopped eating so many pies!” *ROASTED*
Very healthy 96 kg I think that's a little fat
@karlacantu2157
8 жыл бұрын
Ha!
@bloxrocks3254
8 жыл бұрын
whats a kg use pounds makes sense
@eebydeeby.....
8 жыл бұрын
+blox rocks Did you go to 12st grade, you learn kg in 2nd grade.
@bloxrocks3254
8 жыл бұрын
The Caramel Kitten i live in america where mesurments make sense
@eebydeeby.....
8 жыл бұрын
+blox rocks yeah dude, I live in America too, the measurements make no sense.
If it's windy, why didn't you just wait until the next day or something? -.-
@jorifox
9 жыл бұрын
The helium escapes out the balloons because the material is porous. Have you ever gotten a rubber balloon and the next day it was on the ground? that's why
@Nocure92
9 жыл бұрын
Jori F. Well I meant that they could wait for a less windy day to do the whole thing on.
@shotgunplays8466
6 жыл бұрын
It was a sunny day than it went windy while inside.. .Did you even watch the video ? 3 yrs late :)
@rdubby1102
6 жыл бұрын
It’s the uk; it’s always windy
That looks so much fun
awesome!
Imagine if all the balloons popped at the same time
@sambernthal1599
7 жыл бұрын
random kid rip
@wannielam4489
6 жыл бұрын
random kid it will be end of the world
I read that it indeed is an awful waste of a non renewable resource wheras Hydrogen not only is not such a gas but is also 25% MORE buoyant! Forget that it might be dangerous, where can I get hydrogen?
@MythicGuitarCompany
9 жыл бұрын
agreed. there is actually a helium SHORTAGE.. there was a while, where you couldn't buy helium at all. stores wouldn't sell filled party balloons except in small quantities, IF they had a tank. Stores are still on waiting lists for tank refills in some places. With that said, Hydrogen, is still extremely flammable, and could potentially be dangerous, when strapping that much of it to a human. But... that makes for great TV...
@theballoondr
9 жыл бұрын
But they are using helium gas, and this isn't dangerous at all. Hydrogen, really is, because it is so explosive. Nowadays all of balloons are filled with helium. I have no idea where you can get hydrogen.
@MythicGuitarCompany
9 жыл бұрын
yeah hydrogen is definitely more explosive, especially if he is smoking... but you can get it at the same place you get welding gasses and carbon dioxide bottle refills and helium bottles. i.e. there are places that sell all of that stuff. You know though, you have to have a permit to operate a manned helium balloon thing. no pilot's license required, but you need permission and some training so you don't endanger others in airplanes etc
This is my new transportation, NO TRAFFIC..
she hella roasted him at the end😂
30,000 small balloons? well, mr. beast only did 7,000...
What happen to his eyebrowss and why does that guy crinkles his nose when he talks
@mwah1051
6 жыл бұрын
Why are you so judgemental.
Just imagine this sizes of balloons could boost your height of jump
Nostalgia i used to watch this everyday as a child 😂
Even though I'd said it before already on another post, I hope you people know that it's rather easy to make quite an amount of artificial helium in labs (and by extension, factories), since it's the second most simple atomic structure in existence, after hydrogen. In essence, no helium has really been wasted, since it costs only a bit to make anyways.
@HuyLy94
9 жыл бұрын
RedMatter No, it's only easy to make Helium in labs if they can separate it from natural gas from underground reserves. The helium is trapped there from nuclear decay over billions of years. And with the world's natural gas reserves dwindling we're not finding more Helium anytime soon. Also you can't just "make" elements in a lab, the only way to "make" a lot of helium is by fusing Hydrogen, which we haven't been able to do yet on a commercial scale. Because Helium doesn't form compounds since its an inert gas it doesn't react with anything so we can't extract it from anything either. Any Helium that is released in the air float up as you would expect to the top of the atmosphere where the solar wind picks it up and carries it to space. The closest source of Helium is the Moon where Helium flying off the Sun (an actual Helium producing "factory", since it fuses Hydrogen) is captured in the Moon's crust.
@awsomesauce03
9 жыл бұрын
Make artificial helium, what does that even mean. To make HELIUM( in emphasis because I don't want it to be confused with "artificial helium" whatever the fuck that is) you would need fusion and the only way we can do that is nuclear detonation
@ashleybrown1850
9 жыл бұрын
TVs gffgc x,cfttv FCC
@HentaiNat
8 жыл бұрын
these people are fucking dumbasses,saying they're wasting helium,come on people,they'll eventually pop it,why the hell would they let it stay up forever?
@HuyLy94
8 жыл бұрын
hentai nat Thats the whole issue, when it pops the helium is lost forever because it literally floats into space
So, for someone like me (a sixty-and-some pound 5ft tall thirteen year old), the amount of balls they used would be more than enough to lift someone off the ground and remain airborne... Maybe even if just for a couple seconds longer.
OMG THATS A LOT OF FUN :D
It's abit stupid doing this with power lines so close...
who's here from Mrbeast video?
Why not use hydrogen it's atomic mass is four times less than helium and can be generated from water
@shotgunvsheart4751
9 жыл бұрын
google hindenburg..
@camisk8er
9 жыл бұрын
Because it burns remember the Hindenburg?
@brandongardner5450
9 жыл бұрын
Camilo Andrés Because there's definitely something inside of a balloon that can cause a fire or spark.
@AetherBoye
8 жыл бұрын
+Brandon Gardner static energy
@kristellyann6691
6 жыл бұрын
Helium is lighter than hydrogen
good job
"Oh really janice"😂
STOP FUCKING WASTING HELIUM!!!!
@stevejobe3273
9 жыл бұрын
Hate Poachers .....STF-UP....ITS THEIRS TO WASTE, JUST LIKE YOUR LANGUAGE...WASTED.
@andresvillanueva5421
9 жыл бұрын
Steve Jobe That didn't make any sense. Helium is no one's.
@stevejobe3273
9 жыл бұрын
WELL IF ITS NO ONES HOW CAN IT BE WASTED?....LETS HEAR IT
@stevejobe3273
9 жыл бұрын
IT WOULD SEEM THAT IF THEY PAID TO GET IT, AND THEY DID, WHATS IT TO YOU. IM GONNA DO THE SAME THING SOON WITH THE NEIGHBORS CAT. WHATS IT TO YOU HATER?
@stevejobe3273
9 жыл бұрын
......QUITE WASTING MY TIME....DOUCHE BAG.
Use a hydrogen generator that's the answer!
@willie2843
6 жыл бұрын
Rejected Gaming google “the Hindenburg”
That looks so fun
very nice
African children could of eaten all that helium and balloons
@nickdinardo8224
9 жыл бұрын
Are you serious?
@mysteryperson7909
8 жыл бұрын
+Nicholas Bloxxer OOOHOHOHOHOOHOH
@zlaione4396
8 жыл бұрын
+Nicholas Bloxxer Hahahahah
@MechanicsStudents
8 жыл бұрын
Centurion Coles Funny once you think about it though lmao
@MechanicsStudents
8 жыл бұрын
Centurion Coles Lml k
We are running out of helium and they are wasting it on this 😡😡😡
@k9521__
6 жыл бұрын
Lol
@willie2843
6 жыл бұрын
I’ve been breathing helium..... is that wasting it?
@sey_81
6 жыл бұрын
And for what should we use it instead?
@tahneethompson6012
6 жыл бұрын
Nightplayer 81 things that float in venus's atmosphere not for a little party trick
Thank You Friend, great video, that was good fun, sure made me laugh Cheers OXOX
@stevejobe3273
9 жыл бұрын
Thomascow Mc Mullan ME TOO!!!!!!!
@MrThomascow
9 жыл бұрын
Thank You again Friend, great video once again Cheers OXOX
Ah! I want to be part of such experiments!
Does anyone know what building they were in for the final indoor balloon lift? It struck me as more intriguing that the whole balloon nonsense, even if it only turns out to be some weird shopping mall...
lmao that diss at the end tho hahahahah
That roast at the end tho...
OH MY GOD THIS LOOKS SO FUN I WANNA TRY
That would be SOOOO fun
Luigi’s Balloon World in real life
can you imagine inhaling all of that helium
YO THAT WAS SOOO COOL!!!!!!!!!!
Oh Richard! Always eating his pies! What a character!
Right next to high tension power lines. Smart as a box of rocks these boys.
So cool
Wow. Interesting.
Ryan and Eric from victory brought me here 😂
The “oh really Janice “ at the end tho
Miss this show already
This great ideas for Physiotherapy help people steady up try walking again