What If Helium Replaced Oxygen for 1 Minute?

ah great birthday party the same five songs on repeat you stroll off on your own check out the gifts table and stuff some of those chocolate cookies into your pocket for later you stumble on some nice balloons floating around and because you have no self-control you grab one and start inhaling that helium everyone else is outside playing games pinning the tail on the donkey and it's awesome the first thing you notice is your voice changing we've all done it at least once in our lifetime your voice gets super high pitched and squeaky for a couple of seconds you gotta keep inhaling through the balloon though it doesn't last very long it's a fun party trick and it's all thanks to helium which is much lighter than oxygen because of that helium travels quicker through your vocal cords making them vibrate faster the faster they vibrate the more you sound like alvin and the chipmunks you lie back in a comfy chair ah suddenly you notice that everyone has that high pitched voice too everyone's freaking out you breathe in something's up with the air it feels different it feels like the inside of the balloon you were just playing with a little bit of helium isn't harmful not when you're inhaling it through a balloon with almost no pressure but a whole atmosphere of helium your ears start to feel a bit funny and it sounds like someone's revving a motorbike inside your head you need oxygen to balance out the air pressure inside your ear and since the atmosphere is now filled with helium for some reason your body can't maintain that balance without that constant level it feels like you're springing from sea level up to the summit of everest and back everyone starts running around shouting in high squeaky voices it's pretty entertaining but also kind of terrifying you look up in the sky and see a drastic change you check your watch and it's still noon but the sky is as dark as the night you can still hear people squeaking but now you can't see them when the sun's rays travel to earth they get reflected and bounce off different particles in the air especially oxygen with helium instead of oxygen you see much less blue and a whole lot more black the sun it suddenly just looks like a small dot in the sky and as soon as the sun disappears it gets hotter wasn't expecting that you feel like you just stepped in a sauna you're sweating all over just out of instinct you dive under a tree the sun feels really strong now oxygen in the ozone layer usually blocks and deflects a lot of ultraviolet rays those are the ones that give you a sweet summer tan with the oxygen gone those rays are bearing down on earth it's like you're a pizza about to get cooked you try your best to calm down but things are getting a bit out of control and it's a good thing you went outside just now because that house you were just in it's starting to look kind of flimsy concrete needs oxygen to stay bound together without it you're just looking at a pile of cement sand and water helium just doesn't cut it you stand up and look over at the abandoned water tower it's crumbling you run off in the darkness trying to make sense of everything but everyone on the street is as confused as you are the whole block looks like a total mess a lot of people abandon their cars to seek shelter and there are turned over bikes and random bags everywhere people just left everything and ran you find a car that doesn't seem too damaged and switch on the ignition nothing no sound or anything you try another car the same thing happens and another what you need oxygen to start a fire which is basically what happens when you start your car and since helium isn't combustible the cars just won't start same goes for starting a plane engine or a motorbike the whole world's transportation system is suddenly useless but there's always muscle power what about that bike now you can escape this nightmare you find a good one and pick it up as you pedal along in the dark you can almost hear the ground sizzling you need to find help you take your eyes off the road for just a moment lose your balance and bump into a mailbox you're fine you just brush yourself off and get back to pedaling but your bike and the mailbox are now sort of glued together this is way too sci-fi get this solid metals can't stick to each other because of the oxygen in the air they need to be melted down and then mixed together but no oxygen no problem medals are sticking together all over the place you put your watch near the mailbox that was a mistake you've got no choice unbuckle it and leave it behind all that helium is making you kind of dizzy just then you feel the ground shake things are going to get worse come on you ignore it and continue running but it happens again stronger this time you look behind you and see the ground opening up that's definitely your cue to run you dodge everything in your path you're usain bolt you're a cheetah all this is definitely your fault somehow you just know it why did you have to inhale that helium balloon so basically the earth's crust needs oxygen to maintain its form yeah as if things couldn't get any worse but facts are facts and the fact is the earth's crust is made of almost fifty percent oxygen we're walking on air people literally the ground's collapsing in front of you the sky's gone black and how are you even breathing right now there's no oxygen zoing out of nowhere appears a flying electric plastic spaceship uh just go with me on this one remember when i said that everything that runs on fuel needs oxygen well owning electric vehicles looking pretty good right about now plus it's plastic so it won't go around sticking to mailboxes and stuff you hop in and your ears immediately feel more relaxed than before there's something in the air here oxygen wow did you hold your breath that whole time the spaceship takes off and flies straight up past the clouds you're high as an airplane then the spaceship slows and the engine turns off there's a brief moment when you feel like time just stops then you start falling back to earth uh-oh you start gaining speed faster and faster roller coaster speed race car speed sonic jet speed your body shakes as you wake up from your nap you open your eyes and look around everyone staring at you apparently you just inhaled half the balloons at the party they say you were yelling something about a mailbox so helium makes you sound wacky when you inhale it but what about liquid helium you can't use it to make ice cream or anything but it does have a real purpose helium is used for cooling large machines that get hot when they're turned on liquid helium is the coldest liquid in the world colder than liquid nitrogen now you're probably going to think twice about going at those helium balloons again but that's actually not the only gas that'll make your voice funny sulfur hexafluoride helium is way lighter than air but sulfur hexafluoride is way heavier which means that if you breathe in a little your voice will go down real low and you'll have a loud deep voice for a few seconds you can also use it to make a sweet tick tock magic video step one grab a container and fill it halfway with sulfur hexafluoride it's heavier than air so you can leave the top off step two try putting a paper boat into the container it'll be like it's floating on thin air no smoke no mirrors you can float anything on it as long as it's light enough one of those folded paper birds a flower petal

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Length: 8min 13sec (493 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 01 2021