Filling an Air Mattress With Helium to See if I Can Float!

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    In this video I see what happens when you fill an air mattress with helium! Can you actually ride it like a magic carpet? Does it float. Then I try filling a bike tire with helium to see if it makes the bike tire any lighter. Then I talk about helium and why we are running out of helium. How is it produced and where is it going? Will we run out of helium on earth?
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Комментарии • 9 тыс.

  • @henrywilsonwinter
    @henrywilsonwinter 2 года назад +4774

    Now that’s an air mattress. Everything else is a ground mattress.

  • @DanielSambar
    @DanielSambar 5 лет назад +29942

    _Aladdin would like to know your location._

  • @PietraVidal97
    @PietraVidal97 Год назад +131

    My brain: REPLACE IT WITH HYDROGEN
    Me: NO!

    • @christophluger793
      @christophluger793 Год назад +13

      What could go wrong? Oh..

    • @kaglekoa
      @kaglekoa Год назад +3

      ​@@christophluger793 Me having visions of the hindenburg crashing ,,,lol

    • @FigureFarter
      @FigureFarter Год назад +5

      @@kaglekoa Oh the humanity

    • @ishot2pac69
      @ishot2pac69 Год назад +3

      My brain: Just remove oxygen to risk mitigate
      me: would have rather died by explosion

    • @h8GW
      @h8GW 2 месяца назад

      A pure hydrogen balloon won't explode if you light it on fire.
      It'll burn as a rising fireball as the hydrogen escapes and you might ignite the latex

  • @NeillBreathesAir
    @NeillBreathesAir Год назад +47

    Now if I was sleeping in a small room with that mattress and it deflated, I'd be breathing in some really funny air.

    • @sayori3939
      @sayori3939 3 месяца назад +1

      Noo i nearly peed myself with that "funny air" 😂

  • @rockboy1234
    @rockboy1234 4 года назад +3765

    For those who just wants to see what the results are:
    9:50

  • @saraaa0729
    @saraaa0729 5 лет назад +2316

    2:51 I literally thought it was floating for a second 😂😂😂

  • @rscaht
    @rscaht Год назад +50

    You are the best !
    Please go on with your experiments , very well done and explained .

    • @zarif4000
      @zarif4000 Год назад

      he shud do this again with 100% helium

  • @Fvkturbos
    @Fvkturbos 4 года назад +8178

    80 percent helium 20 percent air?
    It’s just like chips!
    20 percent chips 80 percent air!

    • @Vision_Voyagers
      @Vision_Voyagers 4 года назад +113

      That's nitrogen

    • @anandshete9170
      @anandshete9170 4 года назад +17

      Lol

    • @ryze_amaterasu___280
      @ryze_amaterasu___280 4 года назад +21

      You are right

    • @RoxNoAnne
      @RoxNoAnne 4 года назад +50

      The 80-20 rule? Nice

    • @CBKCUSTOM
      @CBKCUSTOM 4 года назад +20

      did you waste time testing that you would have thought that the helium tank should be flying or floating or that the helium tank would not be heavy because it would raise the helium

  • @Kolstee152
    @Kolstee152 2 года назад +1087

    2:44
    "He had us in the first half, not gonna lie!"

    • @xmlstudios
      @xmlstudios 2 года назад +34

      You can see its not laying flat, but it was quite funny tho

    • @believetrust9894
      @believetrust9894 2 года назад +12

      You stole this comment not going to lie!!

    • @xmlstudios
      @xmlstudios 2 года назад +6

      @@believetrust9894 ??

    • @believetrust9894
      @believetrust9894 2 года назад +2

      @@xmlstudios yea??

    • @zippymiester6429
      @zippymiester6429 2 года назад +19

      @@believetrust9894 Nobody asked. Stop being a buzzkill, man.

  • @xcoder1122
    @xcoder1122 Год назад +3

    We could also build vacuum balloons. If you find a material that is super lightweight and strong enough to withstand atmospheric pressure, you could make a balloon out of it, suck out (almost) all the air from inside and it will raise because it also displaces air and unlike helium or hydrogen, it has no density whatsoever, so it will raise even stronger.

    • @paulmichaelfreedman8334
      @paulmichaelfreedman8334 Год назад

      You can float a medium size metal sphere with a thin wall (and filled with plain air) in Xenon gas. Rule of thumb (Archimedes law): the buoyancy force is equal the weight of the displaced medium (in your case air, in my case Xenon)

  • @Snowsea-gs4wu
    @Snowsea-gs4wu 8 месяцев назад +2

    “There is a national shortage of helium”. * proceeds to use helium to fill a mattress and a wheel from a bike just for fun. Awesome, LOL!

  • @isramint
    @isramint 5 лет назад +4226

    I actually thought the mattress was floating for a moment

  • @mohitjuneja6826
    @mohitjuneja6826 2 года назад +4440

    He got me when the matress started flying

    • @lenthercalamaya9488
      @lenthercalamaya9488 2 года назад +34

      Damn yeah

    • @thelord6898
      @thelord6898 2 года назад +67

      Imagine if the mattress smothered him and action scab suffocated! Goodbye deary Ahahahhahahahhahaha!!!!

    • @mohitjuneja6826
      @mohitjuneja6826 2 года назад +16

      @@thelord6898 🤣you evil😂

    • @saadkhatri1129
      @saadkhatri1129 2 года назад +7

      That's his style

    • @thelord6898
      @thelord6898 2 года назад +10

      @@saadkhatri1129 Action Scab is a disgrace to this website. Trump 2020 Jesus is king august 13th will be BIG AURPIRSE!!!

  • @lorinrobbins7911
    @lorinrobbins7911 Год назад +2

    We used to use helium in air suspension for hopping. As he said the speed of helium. It charges to the air spring faster than air giving more energy at inflation.
    Another thing we noticed was the molecules were smaller and able the permeate the air spring. So if you had one full of C02, 02, and helium, the helium one would deflate as the molecules passed through the rubber.

    • @krumuvecis
      @krumuvecis Год назад

      it's even worse for hydrogen - it slowly escapes from aluminium tanks through the crystal itself

  • @JackSilver1410
    @JackSilver1410 Год назад +2

    Those of us who are old enough to remember when Mythbusters was around knew that this was doomed from the beginning.

  • @mikeekim4702
    @mikeekim4702 3 года назад +5869

    I. Am. SO. Pissed that I was gullible enough that you got me with thinking that it was rising up on its own when you were under it lmao 😂

    • @soupricemf1260
      @soupricemf1260 3 года назад +77

      Fr tho

    • @GMoney-B
      @GMoney-B 3 года назад +48

      Me too. Uhhhhg. 🤣

    • @Krustykomrade
      @Krustykomrade 3 года назад +174

      My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

    • @jeremy4750
      @jeremy4750 3 года назад +35

      I swear I cussed my phone out i got mad

    • @austincde
      @austincde 3 года назад +19

      That was too funny 😅

  • @yashindersingh5148
    @yashindersingh5148 3 года назад +459

    2:49
    They had us the first half not gonna lie

    • @davidwaynemain
      @davidwaynemain 3 года назад +24

      I was thinkin "why she in the shot?" And "he must be behind the cam.....oh....there he is"

    • @alansmithee419
      @alansmithee419 3 года назад +2

      Having already worked out the outcome, my immediate thought was "what the f*** have you done?" My confusion meant I didn't even have time to decide whether I believed it had actually worked or not before it was revealed that it hadn't.

    • @dhruvmittal2689
      @dhruvmittal2689 3 года назад +1

      Lol bro I literally just commented the same exact works

  • @mrMirzam
    @mrMirzam Год назад +7

    Simple and very nice educational video. Thank you!

  • @101jir
    @101jir 2 года назад +10

    The question I wonder about though: is it more comfortable with helium? I know it is a subjective thing, I knew it wouldn't float, but what does it feel like?

  • @tiureiji
    @tiureiji 3 года назад +5302

    Ok, but the real question is: at what point does it stop being an air mattress and becomes a helium mattress?

    • @autisticpi
      @autisticpi 3 года назад +258

      When the first helium atom entered the mattress.

    • @Havron
      @Havron 3 года назад +76

      50%

    • @thebestauthor8212
      @thebestauthor8212 3 года назад +137

      @@Havron 50.00000000000000000000001%

    • @alansmithee419
      @alansmithee419 3 года назад +42

      @@Havron by mass, volume, number of atoms, or number of molecules?

    • @Greg042869
      @Greg042869 3 года назад +33

      50.1% concentration, but at the very beginning of the fill, not at half full.

  • @veiniisand
    @veiniisand 5 лет назад +8360

    They probably have a shortage of helium because of Mr Beast

  • @WhistlebirdInfinity
    @WhistlebirdInfinity Год назад +1

    Man, now you got me picture a very light frame bicycle with helium or hot air in ginormous tires with like water-wheelish type ridges on them to make you get some propulsion going on...thanks

  • @claude_in_Cincinnati
    @claude_in_Cincinnati Год назад +11

    Love this guy. He got me good! I felt like a child watching him lift that mattress. I was giddy. I'd like to think part of me knew it wasn't real, but this guy's just got the ability to make me want to believe in Awesomeness.
    I always feel better than before after watching his videos. Pretty sure he took off about 4 years of aging from this video alone. 😄

  • @akonimanggwp9060
    @akonimanggwp9060 Год назад +1

    Got my hopes up... Hahaha but i love how he, "Ohhhh~~~~" 😂

  • @michaelwyman8513
    @michaelwyman8513 5 лет назад +3519

    This is why we have a helium shortage

    • @Nilguiri
      @Nilguiri 5 лет назад +158

      It made me cringe seeing all of that helium wasted!

    • @Speeder84XL
      @Speeder84XL 5 лет назад +112

      He should have used hydrogen instead of wasting such a precious gas. That actually gives slightly more lift than helium and is not that dangerous if you make shure to have no flames or hot objects nearby (also - since it's contained in the mattress, it will not ignite just because of a small spark or static electricity)

    • @greyhead3626
      @greyhead3626 5 лет назад +36

      I know this is a joke or at least I think it is, but the sun has a shit ton of helium, more than we could ever use.

    • @weefslider
      @weefslider 5 лет назад +121

      @@greyhead3626 and how do you propose we get it?

    • @Nilguiri
      @Nilguiri 5 лет назад +121

      @@greyhead3626 Yes, it should be a simple matter of sending a few tankers to the sun to collect it and bring it back. No problem.

  • @rustyscrapper
    @rustyscrapper 3 года назад +279

    I knew a guy in high school that charged his racing bike tires with hydrogen to make the bike lighter. His front tire blew up in the race.

    • @memerboi69.0
      @memerboi69.0 3 года назад +5

      did he set his bike on fire

    • @pepesylvia848
      @pepesylvia848 3 года назад +12

      @@memerboi69.0 a bike isn't likely to catch fire.
      It's usually made from fire-resistant materials, and doesn't have very high surface area.

    • @andredeketeleastutecomplex
      @andredeketeleastutecomplex 3 года назад +6

      Luckily it wasn't a magnesium bike then.

    • @peterfirside295
      @peterfirside295 3 года назад +12

      my bike caught fire when it was parked at SeaWorld.........I don't want to talk about it

    • @EHZD
      @EHZD 3 года назад +2

      Oof

  • @joshmcdonald9508
    @joshmcdonald9508 Год назад +1

    There's a lot of channels I could be watching RN...but I love this one so much!

  • @catakuri6678
    @catakuri6678 8 месяцев назад +1

    i was 99% sure it won't float, but when i saw it floating i started believing it for a second

  • @pokemagicraft3246
    @pokemagicraft3246 4 года назад +236

    2:52 really got me thinking for a sec

  • @Zendail
    @Zendail 5 лет назад +518

    Helium is starting to become a precious resource. You should have used hydrogen....safely

    • @AssistantCoreAQI
      @AssistantCoreAQI 5 лет назад +56

      HindenBed.

    • @curiousgamer9343
      @curiousgamer9343 5 лет назад +14

      Damn! That almost flew over my head. I thought you just misspelled Hindenburg. Then i realized the "bed" part.

    • @MrCuddles194
      @MrCuddles194 5 лет назад +3

      ZombieHeadShotGaming lol 😂

    • @andymanson3836
      @andymanson3836 5 лет назад +4

      Radiólogo Millonario That’s why he said safely...pay attention.

    • @JackieBright
      @JackieBright 5 лет назад +4

      @@curiousgamer9343 it flew over your head, and then you heard it explode

  • @dannymosquito
    @dannymosquito 2 года назад +2

    Thanks heaps for the great explanation. So would the helium when it's first released from the balloon and is still together, initially start to rise up and stop after it spreads too far? Or does it just disperse as soon as it hits the air? Then would the helium particles just randomly move around in the air? Is there any attraction for the helium atoms to be drawn to each other like we see with liquids? Or for example how smoke accumulates at the top of a room. I'm assuming the density is sufficient for it to displace the air however doesn't that still require the smoke atoms to stay together. For example would one of those smoke atoms if taken and placed in air float to the top? If not what keeps the smoke atoms together so that it can displace enough air to float. Wouldn't they just disperse into the air as well?

    • @canadianchemist5052
      @canadianchemist5052 2 года назад +2

      i found this really interesting so i wanna try and answer. i think a good way to think about helium in air is to compare it to something like pouring really salty/sugary water into plain water, but upside down. the denser liquid stays together and sinks for a little bit, but in a tall enough glass would eventually spread out and mix with the plain water until the densities were the same. similarly the helium would rise for a bit before spreading out. also, there isn’t any attraction between helium atoms, they are completely non-polar. the molecules sticking together is actually what determines if a substance is solid/liquid/gas at a certain temp, so water needs to be pretty sticky to not just turn into vapour. helium is so not attracted to itself that you need to get it extremely cold temps before it can stay as a liquid. for the smoke, i looked into it a bit and i think it’s because smoke only rises when it’s hot, and it can only cool down by bumping into cooler molecules. that means that when the smoke is all together, it doesn’t lose much heat and once it hits the ceiling there isn’t anywhere to spread out so it stays as a pocket of warm air. smoke that’s cool would i think be denser than air, especially the particles that you can see which i believe are just tiny bits of carbon. hope this makes sense :)

    • @rossbrumby1957
      @rossbrumby1957 Год назад

      What he said about the helium stopping after a while is bullshit. It's lighter than air, than any atmosphere- it keeps rising and leaves the atmosphere and into space where it disperses as any gas does in space. It's the only element that passes through the atmosphere and escapes into space naturally. No helium resides in the atmosphere- it's all just passing through. And as for salty water and fresh, there are undersea places where layers of brine do not mix with normal seawater, and places where fresh and salt stay seperate in layers.

  • @JSSTyger
    @JSSTyger 8 месяцев назад

    In order to float, the total density would need to be less than that of air. The density of air is approximately 1.225 kg/m³. If the weight of the man, clothing, mattress, and the gas is, 100kg, you would need the composite volume of 81.633 m³ to float. If your bedroom is 4m x 4m x 4m, your bedroom is smaller than this.

  • @molycow
    @molycow 3 года назад +1379

    "I found my own source for helium."
    Well, well, well, how interesting

    • @cjgreen4331
      @cjgreen4331 3 года назад +58

      Raid his home! Take all the helium you find! (and his poptarts)

    • @KnightIA
      @KnightIA 3 года назад +7

      Lololololol

    • @pabloortiz8128
      @pabloortiz8128 3 года назад +5

      Me living in the helium capital of the world 😏

    • @jasonrhodes9683
      @jasonrhodes9683 3 года назад +9

      The US government has been hoarding helium since the 1870s. The Hindenburg disaster was caused by the US not selling Germany helium, and it wasn't be cause if Hitler, we wouldn't have even considered parting with that much to anyone for any price at that time. The US has also been fracking for natural gas so should have too much, but oddly, we have too little.
      Where is it? Its with the strategic oil reserves, down in old oil wells that have "dried up." I wanna know what they are going to do with it, probably something really cool.

    • @jasonrhodes9683
      @jasonrhodes9683 3 года назад +2

      @@alexisstewart42 that is only on The Big Bang Theory.

  • @captainvoluntaryistthestat3207
    @captainvoluntaryistthestat3207 3 года назад +492

    "There is a shortage of helium!"
    The sun: send me your hydrogen and I'll convert it to helium.

  • @Incountry
    @Incountry Год назад +1

    Hindenburg caught alight due to the paint used on the canvas when it made contact with its holding stand, it caused a spark that ignited its paint thus the way it started from the top of the ship and went across it in seconds whereas if the hydrogen was at fault it would’ve caused an explosion then self extinguish as the gas would’ve burned off.
    This is why airships of today (50 years) are made of a rubber compound developed by Goodyear.

  • @Fallen012332
    @Fallen012332 Месяц назад +1

    You should try to do this again, but with one of the thicker air mattresses so that it can hold more helium or use multiple air mattresses

  • @explosify5035
    @explosify5035 5 лет назад +903

    Scientists:
    Were running out of helium
    The Action lab:

    • @nicolepapole
      @nicolepapole 4 года назад +21

      Right. Irresponsible.

    • @questionable3821
      @questionable3821 4 года назад +10

      Explosify we will never run out of helium, it is the third most abundant resource in the universe

    • @nicolepapole
      @nicolepapole 4 года назад +28

      @@questionable3821 You should do some research. Abundance doesn't mean accessible and the universe? We are talking about what's here on Earth and available to us.

    • @lorithompson7236
      @lorithompson7236 4 года назад +6

      nicolepapole is right

    • @questionable3821
      @questionable3821 4 года назад +3

      nicolepapole yes you are right, but there is still an abundance of it in the atmosphere. Like on Jupiter, the atmosphere consists of HE6 HE3 HE1 CO2 H O2 N1

  • @rugilekat2840
    @rugilekat2840 5 лет назад +1306

    2:52
    The funniest thing I have ever seen on the Action Lab😂 love your videos!

  • @carriethompson7919
    @carriethompson7919 Год назад +1

    I’m crying laughing when I was like “wow it’s working!” 🤦🏽‍♀️😩🤣this was great🥰🤣

  • @koogalz
    @koogalz 10 месяцев назад +1

    Can someone explain to me why the helium doesnt rise to the top of the canister but instead mixes with the air but the reason that theres a shortage is because helium rises up and leaves the atmosphere.
    I know it was explained but i still dont quite understand. Thanks

  • @S0FTW4RE
    @S0FTW4RE 2 года назад +2648

    this man gets the weirdest ideas in the shower, his brain is next level

    • @kouavang2396
      @kouavang2396 2 года назад +132

      And he actually remembers the ideas after walking out the shower

    • @depressoespresso5904
      @depressoespresso5904 2 года назад +32

      @@kouavang2396 das big brain

    • @dirt32278
      @dirt32278 2 года назад +11

      @@kouavang2396 that or the ideas you have before falling asleep 🤣

    • @darkparker7500
      @darkparker7500 2 года назад +1

      @@kouavang2396 He is a brainbox, too.

    • @rithwikadwik4143
      @rithwikadwik4143 2 года назад +5

      mark rober: ur nothing agianst my accomplishments

  • @user72720
    @user72720 3 года назад +789

    When it didn't float: * my disappointment is immeasurable *

    • @kambel
      @kambel 3 года назад +19

      you just had to go to the comments and spoil it

    • @user72720
      @user72720 3 года назад +37

      @@kambel I saved you 10 minutes

    • @halcyon_exb
      @halcyon_exb 2 года назад +30

      @@kambel why were u in the comments before watching the video its honestly ur own fault at that point

    • @theperfectbotsteve4916
      @theperfectbotsteve4916 2 года назад +13

      And my day is ruined

    • @theperfectbotsteve4916
      @theperfectbotsteve4916 2 года назад +6

      @@halcyon_exb no psycho gos to the comment section after they watch the vid

  • @isaacmadhavan
    @isaacmadhavan 2 года назад

    I, too, had this question! Thank you for answering it.

  • @calebS.Buddy_drum_Rich
    @calebS.Buddy_drum_Rich Год назад +2

    So there's a spot in the atmosphere where there's a whole bunch of balloons just floating there ... Nice 👍🏻

  • @akyer8085
    @akyer8085 4 года назад +724

    Girls: "Pillow fights! Hehehhehehe"
    Boys: *"MATTRESS WAR, DEPLOY THE ZEPPELINS"*

  • @rfrmva
    @rfrmva 4 года назад +1451

    Day 1 of quarintine: bored watching a movie
    Day 60: helium matress

  • @Migoiscool
    @Migoiscool Год назад +2

    This man is smarter then my science book..

  • @theintegratedguy9528
    @theintegratedguy9528 2 года назад

    Action Lab is the only channel I’ve found till now that I genuinely want to support

  • @aspiegirl_tay
    @aspiegirl_tay 5 лет назад +523

    Next you should fill a mattress with sulfur hexafluoride to see how heavy it becomes!

    • @axiomer47
      @axiomer47 5 лет назад +30

      Man I saw a video on both the inhale helium and speak like cartoons and when they inhale sulfurhexafluoride they talk like Darth Vader

    • @xavierramirez2397
      @xavierramirez2397 5 лет назад +4

      I would love to see this I hope he does this!

    • @aspiegirl_tay
      @aspiegirl_tay 5 лет назад +3

      Lalith Adithya I saw that too and I thought if a heavier than air gas could make voices deeper and cause a regular balloon to float; I wonder how much heavier the mattress could become if it was filled with sulfur hexafluoride?

    • @polarpl247
      @polarpl247 5 лет назад +5

      Sulfur hexafluoride is a lot more expensive than helium.

    • @DamianReloaded
      @DamianReloaded 5 лет назад +2

      Cody'sLab filled a couple of balloons with it. They are pretty heavy actually. ^_^

  • @Ghost-yw4yw
    @Ghost-yw4yw 5 лет назад +414

    Damn it he got me!
    For a second I thought it was floating. 😑

    • @Kayla-gl9fk
      @Kayla-gl9fk 5 лет назад +2

      Venom same 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @johnrios4474
      @johnrios4474 5 лет назад +2

      So did i
      Lol

    • @snaz27
      @snaz27 5 лет назад +1

      Wow, stay in school guys... XD

    • @4rslan737
      @4rslan737 5 лет назад

      @@johnrios4474 same

    • @dougtye9445
      @dougtye9445 5 лет назад

      I am checking the comments before wasting my time watching the video.
      I'd much rather waste it writing stupid comments.
      Gotta admit though. I was hoping.

  • @davidsnyder2000
    @davidsnyder2000 Год назад

    That was SO funny when he lifted the air mattress up with his hands and legs. I don’t know why, but I found that to be hilarious 😄👍

  • @Steph737
    @Steph737 Год назад +2

    2:44 - "I'm gonna take away these" *then a girl pulls them instead* Ooohh 😂

  • @eaaeeeea
    @eaaeeeea 2 года назад +536

    When I was a kid I was actually interested to fill up an air mattress with helium with a premise it would float like a balloon even with me on it. Turns out my "calculations" were way off :D

    • @AK-jt7kh
      @AK-jt7kh 2 года назад +11

      Still a clever thing to think of as a kid

    • @kanib.7928
      @kanib.7928 2 года назад +2

      Me too. Glad to see him tackling all these ideas we had😊

    • @insertusernamehere8125
      @insertusernamehere8125 2 года назад +1

      Yes kid thoughts were fun :D

    • @99xara99
      @99xara99 Год назад +1

      Honestly this sounds like the most fun thing ever and I'm gutted it doesn't work! 😂

    • @ihavemyshield
      @ihavemyshield Год назад

      If only lol

  • @Chicorodrigo781
    @Chicorodrigo781 3 года назад +2467

    This guy looks pained all of the time. Like smiling hurts.

    • @vedantshah5240
      @vedantshah5240 3 года назад +81

      no one gives a toss about it

    • @BottomGear2
      @BottomGear2 3 года назад +40

      Fax

    • @Chicorodrigo781
      @Chicorodrigo781 3 года назад +55

      @@BottomGear2 Machine.

    • @Chicorodrigo781
      @Chicorodrigo781 3 года назад +28

      @@vedantshah5240 Have a banger instead of taking the piss.

    • @sandimaree
      @sandimaree 3 года назад +84

      1/2 Zach braff 1/2 hide the pain Harold

  • @AshishXMC
    @AshishXMC Год назад +1

    2:53 Ahh, you got me there. I actually thought it would float, Lmao.

  • @MusicFandom
    @MusicFandom 7 месяцев назад +2

    of course the dead giveaway would be that the tanks were not floating when you bought them 😎😎

  • @ambrotose
    @ambrotose 4 года назад +27

    2:55 actually got me... I was so convinced it wouldn't rise and when it did but wasn't real I died inside

  • @ultrapurple111
    @ultrapurple111 2 года назад +221

    2:51 I have to admit, that 'moment of truth' made me laugh.

  • @ThePeterDislikeShow
    @ThePeterDislikeShow Год назад +8

    I'd love to be belted onto a mattress light enough and float into space. I bet I could finally fall sound asleep.

  • @waxore1142
    @waxore1142 Год назад +1

    I haven't watched the whole video yet but in my mind I'm thinking I hope to God he recovered that helium because that's so valuable right now

  • @Lightyear_Aviation
    @Lightyear_Aviation 5 лет назад +338

    Hey Action lab you should put a gyroscope in a vacuum chamber and after an hour of spinning see if it’s axis has changed due to the earth spinning

    • @alexbarbat8408
      @alexbarbat8408 5 лет назад +8

      RealBananas it wouldn’t work, because he wouldn’t spin it perfectly straight making it fall over due to gravity.

    • @nathan07
      @nathan07 5 лет назад +22

      Too bad it wouldn’t work cuz Earth don’t spin... it a donut.. and donuts don’t spin lol 😂

    • @a.yashwanth
      @a.yashwanth 5 лет назад +13

      Friction would still be there in vaccum.

    • @HidekiShinichi
      @HidekiShinichi 5 лет назад +5

      @@alexbarbat8408 it would not fall thats the point of gyroscopes, they resist any force trying to change their slope. The problem would be imperfect vaccum that would create some friction and friction on a pivot point.

    • @alexbarbat8408
      @alexbarbat8408 5 лет назад +1

      Hideki Shinichi watch vsauce’s video called spinning

  • @12345away
    @12345away 5 лет назад +312

    Vsauce did pillowcases, Action Lab did mattress..... Still waiting for collab... close... BUT NOT CLOSE ENOUGH

  • @xx7secondsxx
    @xx7secondsxx Год назад +1

    Mann!!!!
    I sooooo got BAMBOOZLED when it started floating!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤘🎸🤘🍻🍻

  • @L1VE3V1L
    @L1VE3V1L 10 месяцев назад

    When it started floating up and then we see you were underneath it….well….. that was neat.
    I lol’d

  • @Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access
    @Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access 5 лет назад +508

    What if you filled helium with an air mattress.

  • @filiyy_3855
    @filiyy_3855 5 лет назад +252

    Bouncy castle full of helium.
    3:03 is mind blowing

    • @killer-iw5fu
      @killer-iw5fu 4 года назад +5

      Noooooo I was gonna comment that

    • @filiyy_3855
      @filiyy_3855 4 года назад +2

      @@killer-iw5fu lol

  • @hagu1005
    @hagu1005 2 года назад

    The floating trick got me. That was funny. Thank you 😂😂

  • @byronmiller8218
    @byronmiller8218 Год назад

    I love how he just sticks the giant mattress on the tiny scale

  • @Rowdy106
    @Rowdy106 5 лет назад +650

    Action Lab: Let’s fill a air mattress with helium
    National Helium Shortage: Am I a joke to you?

    • @muhammadhelmihibatullah8113
      @muhammadhelmihibatullah8113 5 лет назад +3

      @Teoman Ozbakir ew shut up you smart kid

    • @Rowdy106
      @Rowdy106 5 лет назад +3

      Teoman Ozbakir that made me laugh lol

    • @driftsune
      @driftsune 5 лет назад +2

      Wooosh

    • @masonevans6059
      @masonevans6059 5 лет назад +2

      Such an underrated comment hahaha 😂

    • @drchopstick9539
      @drchopstick9539 5 лет назад +1

      Rowdy106 It’s AN air mattress r u like in gr 2 or something like Jesus’s

  • @allison3724
    @allison3724 4 года назад +305

    I was so exited when it started to “float” THEN YOU RUINED IT

  • @vanceblosser2155
    @vanceblosser2155 Год назад

    Something else that reduces the lifting power is the pressure that the object is inflated to, as it compresses the helium making it more dense. This method of varying lift has been used by Goodyear for a long time, there is a ballonet inside the main bag along with the helium. To reduce the lift more air is pumped into the ballonet which compresses the helium bag and allows the airship to descend. The pressure is released to climb. And no helium is released so the only wastage is due to seepage.

  • @calvinroberson4655
    @calvinroberson4655 Год назад

    HOW HAVE I NEVER THOUGHT OF THIS

  • @DRT1983
    @DRT1983 4 года назад +166

    Everybody: ITS FLOATS
    Him: it didint float

  • @javieregarcia1
    @javieregarcia1 2 года назад +143

    The way he weighed the whole
    Mattress on that tiny scale lmaoo

    • @ishot2pac69
      @ishot2pac69 Год назад +3

      Americans current state when measuring body mass

  • @johnostambaugh8638
    @johnostambaugh8638 8 месяцев назад

    I read somewhere that helium comes out of the ground (?) and actually leaves the astrosphere. Huge bags of helium used to lift heavy items out of our astrosphere??

  • @cskilalillabich9059
    @cskilalillabich9059 Год назад

    as for bike tires the benefit there is if a tire calls for say 95-100 psi with air. you can go 190-200 helium which makes the tire harder and less friction when pushing it. makes for an interesting blowout if you should have one .

    • @rossbrumby1957
      @rossbrumby1957 Год назад

      95 psi is 95 psi- doesn't matter which gas it is, the tyre still bursts if you go over max recommended pressure.

  • @classiccj2569
    @classiccj2569 3 года назад +1159

    The 11k dislikes are the people that couldn't buy helium to float.

    • @vedanlkektokekto6872
      @vedanlkektokekto6872 3 года назад +1

      Newnewnewnewnewnewnew

    • @lordtaz201
      @lordtaz201 3 года назад +80

      Or people who don’t like fake thumbnails

    • @amihartz
      @amihartz 3 года назад +2

      just use hydrogen

    • @quackerman234
      @quackerman234 3 года назад +2

      @@amihartz hydrogen is hella expensive and hard to find

    • @amihartz
      @amihartz 3 года назад +7

      @@quackerman234 hydrogen is not hard to find... It can be expensive tho.

  • @mr.doctor5117
    @mr.doctor5117 3 года назад +672

    This dudes like, "Oh, there's a worldwide helium shortage?" *Wastes multiple tanks of helium* Ballin'!

    • @pak3ton
      @pak3ton 3 года назад +3

      8% helium.

    • @CardZed
      @CardZed 3 года назад +47

      @@pak3ton 80%*

    • @pak3ton
      @pak3ton 3 года назад +10

      @@CardZed oh... sorry my english is bad lol i thought i heard 8 :v....

    • @tobistein6639
      @tobistein6639 2 года назад +24

      Commercially available balloon helium is not as pure as the stuff that’s needed for industrial and chemical processes. I’d recommend looking up the helium episode of the Periodic Table of Videos on RUclips.

    • @thelord6898
      @thelord6898 2 года назад +16

      Disgusting! Action Drab is uncaring for the global helium shortage! Terrible man and a disgrace to RUclips. Tromp 2020 Jesus is king 💪🇺🇸🦅💪🇺🇸💪💪

  • @visualonestudio
    @visualonestudio Год назад +1

    When it started floating, i admit you had me.

  • @pythoncoder0072
    @pythoncoder0072 6 месяцев назад +1

    2:45 really got me there

  • @LAF_YT
    @LAF_YT 2 года назад +247

    The difference in the up and down force is 0.069 pounds. Therefore each cubic foot of helium could lift 0.069 pounds. In order to lift 100 pounds (which would include the weight of your load, the balloon, and the helium) you would need 1449 cubic feet of helium.
    Your mattress holds maybe 30 cubic feet, and you weight more than 100lbs, so you would need about 100 mattresses to float 200lbs.

    • @dazukapewpew9070
      @dazukapewpew9070 2 года назад +7

      equations or doesn’t count. 😹👏

    • @JustinShaedo
      @JustinShaedo 2 года назад +66

      Weight of air: 1.225 kg/m^3
      Weight of helium: 0.1785 kg/m^3 kilogram per cubic meter
      So, for every cubic meter of air, displaced by helium, you get a lift of 1.225 - 0.1785 = 1.0465 kg (roughly 1kg).
      The air mattress weighed 3.753 kg 1:18
      Dimensions of a queen mattress are 152.4cm x 213.36cm x Depth (lets assume a depth of 30.5cm) = volume 1m^3 (super convenient!)
      So total lift is 1 kg total weight of mattress is 3.753kg .... totally predictable total failure is totally achieved

    • @mroguretxs9651
      @mroguretxs9651 2 года назад +34

      @@JustinShaedo this chad actually did calculations holy shit

    • @everydayarcher7764
      @everydayarcher7764 2 года назад +4

      See someone actually understands that this guy is a fraud

    • @hecker5812
      @hecker5812 2 года назад +7

      @@JustinShaedo you must be a 19 year old

  • @chrisawesome3091
    @chrisawesome3091 5 лет назад +784

    Where is all the helium going?
    We don’t know
    TheActionLab:
    Filling a mattress with helium to see if I can float
    Edit: Thank you all for all the likes, I’ve never had a comment get this many likes so quickly!

    • @MaxSandberg
      @MaxSandberg 5 лет назад +1

      Pretty interesting I have to say

    • @yesyes1299
      @yesyes1299 5 лет назад

      Siht desuac tfarceniM

    • @jamespoon8799
      @jamespoon8799 5 лет назад +5

      I don’t know why but am enjoying this channel less as time goes by

    • @yesyes1299
      @yesyes1299 5 лет назад +2

      @@jamespoon8799 u get tired of stuff as u go on

    • @chrisawesome3091
      @chrisawesome3091 5 лет назад +4

      James Poon I actually feel the same way, I just don’t know why tho, maybe its just his content is growing less intriguing and also less thought provoking?

  • @stuartfisher447
    @stuartfisher447 Год назад +1

    A cubic metre of air weighs around 1kg. Even if the air mattress had weighed just 1kg, it would need to have a volume of 1 cubic metre to have neutral buoyancy even with a vacuum inside. Add the weight of the helium (about 0.17kg at standard atmospheric pressure and temperature) and you'd need around 1.2 cubic metres. This mattress weighed over three times that and a tape measure would tell you it's barely a cubic metre in volume.

  • @amerfilmstudios9292
    @amerfilmstudios9292 Год назад +1

    Use a light weight matress made of balloon type rubber material..than only it will float ( without heavy object ) ☑️

  • @daltonsimmerman3054
    @daltonsimmerman3054 5 лет назад +479

    Helium: "I'm almost gone."
    The Action Lab: "Today I'm going to fill an air mattress with this rare gas I managed to find."

    • @yuno9121
      @yuno9121 5 лет назад +15

      So rare that McDonalds fills up balloons with them

    • @hesperhurt
      @hesperhurt 5 лет назад +7

      @@yuno9121 and that makes it OK? 🤔 So McDonald's is now the benchmark for logic and sustainability?
      .
      .
      .
      .
      Yep. We're fkt! 😂🤯

    • @blueraspberrylemonade32
      @blueraspberrylemonade32 5 лет назад +4

      Twilight Sparkle I read it was okay in a tabloid magazine, it must be true! Chocolate helps people who are on a diet lose weight too!

    • @dustbitten
      @dustbitten 5 лет назад +3

      What other important uses do we have for helium though? I admit ignorance on this topic.🖐😐🤚

    • @akemiasahina4555
      @akemiasahina4555 5 лет назад +2

      JD for making chipmunk voices of course

  • @insertusername_1718
    @insertusername_1718 5 лет назад +335

    *1900's* : In 2019 We Will Have A Floating matress
    *2019:*

  • @01-the-binarian
    @01-the-binarian Год назад

    could you turn it up on its side and let some of the air out the bottom and refill more helium? like filling a soda cup upsidedown?

  • @matydrum
    @matydrum Год назад +2

    I'm at the start at the video but I think there is absolutely no way you could float on that. I'm not even sure the mattress will entirely lift.

  • @jasperjonkers2414
    @jasperjonkers2414 5 лет назад +169

    when fusion reactors are perfected and used around the world they'll convert a lot of hydrogen into helium and thus we won't have a helium shortage.

    • @lollol-ws4lo
      @lollol-ws4lo 5 лет назад +3

      nice thinking

    • @illuminate4622
      @illuminate4622 5 лет назад +5

      Except it's so energy dense that it won't produce much helium. But how much we actually use helium and for what purposes?

    • @minecraftermad
      @minecraftermad 5 лет назад +9

      @@illuminate4622 mri machines for cooling, particle colliders and fusion generator cooling and some have suggested using it as a fuel for fusion

    • @illuminate4622
      @illuminate4622 5 лет назад +2

      @jklw10 i know those things, but would anything be enough for *balloons?*

    • @corpsiecorpsie_the_original
      @corpsiecorpsie_the_original 5 лет назад +1

      @@illuminate4622 - cryogenic cooling

  • @Unknown-Lux
    @Unknown-Lux 4 года назад +741

    We’re having a shortage of helium and this is what the remaining of helium is being used for?

    • @that1nerdyblackgirl736
      @that1nerdyblackgirl736 4 года назад +35

      Luxury Inc that and blowing up balloons

    • @Deathnotefan97
      @Deathnotefan97 4 года назад +60

      Fun fact: NASCAR pit teams found that the tool (forget it's name) that puts in the bolts that hold wheels in the car are about a tenth of a second faster when using compressed helium instead of compressed air
      Once this discovery was made it ruled that they cannot use helium for these tools, specifically because of the shortage

    • @among-us-99999
      @among-us-99999 4 года назад +23

      @Luxury Inc as a refrigerant, for example in superconducting magnets for MRI scanners. It’s literally saving people’s lives.
      Superconductors that would already work with liquid nitrogen like YBCO would be way too expensive/fragile to build a huge electromagnet out of them. There are cheaper and easier to work with superconductors like Niobium, but that requires liquid helium cooling.

    • @HallieEva
      @HallieEva 4 года назад +2

      lol

    • @cuentafake140
      @cuentafake140 4 года назад +42

      Kids in Africa could have eaten that helium, smh.

  • @worldpeace7219
    @worldpeace7219 Год назад

    How would you shrink the volume to get better results?

  • @EvilSSP
    @EvilSSP Год назад

    Growing up every kid in the neighborhood got the idea of filling their bike tires with helium. I remember one kid who even swore that he knew someone who did it and could bunny hop super high.

  • @chancechase8558
    @chancechase8558 3 года назад +308

    OKAY EVERYONE...INVEST IN HELIUM COMPANIES STOCK NOW... IT'S GUARANTEED TO GO UP...HAHA !!!

    • @ryanlandry8214
      @ryanlandry8214 3 года назад +26

      Be careful. It's a bubble like the housing market before 2008. They're already selling sub-prime helium at AAA ratings. You thought you bought pure helium shares, but it was diluted with air. You already lost 20% of your investment. Short it! - The Big Short 2, coming to a streaming service near you! 😂

    • @hilmidwiputranto6944
      @hilmidwiputranto6944 3 года назад +5

      pun intended?

    • @gronkus4443
      @gronkus4443 2 года назад +2

      @@hilmidwiputranto6944 you don't say...

    • @Shockxv
      @Shockxv 2 года назад

      @@hilmidwiputranto6944 pun intended.

    • @ryanschwartz8226
      @ryanschwartz8226 2 года назад

      Dudes got jokes..... 😂 lol

  • @msy6864
    @msy6864 5 лет назад +408

    Magic carpet:
    The action lab: *I'm gonna end this man's whole career*

    • @DeadlyVenomKing
      @DeadlyVenomKing 5 лет назад +2

      Mr. Po Po has magic carpets for sale

    • @kiflisferi
      @kiflisferi 5 лет назад

      Stop with eminem memes pls thx

    • @ploperdung
      @ploperdung 5 лет назад +1

      Except he failed

  • @maxmouse713
    @maxmouse713 Год назад

    That's honestly one of the best sponsors I've seen in a while. Wireless fall detection that actually works? If I had heard it from some ad, I would have doubted it, but I trust you so now I can see that that's some really amazing technology being applied to a very compassionate cause. But I'm still sad that you can't use helium like in a cartoon.

  • @UNDIEGOBLE
    @UNDIEGOBLE Год назад +2

    0:00 never knew i could use helium for a bomb

  • @7deepbreaths.sounds
    @7deepbreaths.sounds 2 года назад +199

    I absolutely LOVE this guy!! If only I could've had a science teacher like him when I was in elementary/high school...I imagine my early education experience would have been so much more rewarding!! GREAT POSTS!

  • @83daaj
    @83daaj 4 года назад +224

    science you tubers: mY hElIuM dEaLeR

  • @scottcummings8074
    @scottcummings8074 2 года назад +2

    I believe the mattress would have been even lighter if you had measured it flat. The helium needs more surface area to push up against. Holding the mattress up and down decreases surface area to push up against.

    • @incargeek
      @incargeek Год назад

      Nonsense!

    • @rossbrumby1957
      @rossbrumby1957 Год назад

      So you think if I get on the bathroom scales horizontally, they'll read heavier? Must be why ships are too heavy to fly without wings but rockets can get into space......

    • @scottcummings8074
      @scottcummings8074 Год назад

      @Ross Brumby no but you will displace less pounds per square inch. Just like a helium tank will not float away unless you fill a large balloon with the helium in the tank to lift it.

  • @kcb73mgb1
    @kcb73mgb1 Год назад

    would a helium bubble raise faster than an air bubble underwater eg take a bottle filled with each scuba diving and open them down a few hundred feet and open them?