turns out we’re doomed to run out of helium in about 100 years. who’s going to tell the kids on their birthday?
according to Robert Richardson, Nobel laureate professor of physics at Cornell university, “the basic problem is that helium is too cheap. The Earth is 4.7 billion years old and it has taken that long to accumulate our helium reserves, which we will dissipate in about 100 years. One generation does not have the right to determine availability for ever.”
Look, i think you all know that first and foremost i am a businesswoman and my instincts are telling me, go to Party City and buy up as many balloons as the biggest safety deposit box can hold, bequeath them all to posterity, then in a 100 years they can sell them for a thousand times what i paid so that they can then go and buy me a kickass tombstone that lights up and goes bleep bleep bloop every time somebody gets too close to my grave.
AMIRITE, donald trump???
also, apparently there is a helium reserve in amarillo, texas where half of the world’s helium is kept. doesn’t that sounds like the most magical and whimsical cave ever? is there also a ball pit and animatronic musical bears there and if they ran out of money would they consider renting it out for parties, BYOBalloons?
read about how our world is losing whimsy little by little every day here. invest wisely in your future here.
according to a New Scientist 
