Sorry Astronauts-Helium Falls in Space

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  • @toaolisi761
    @toaolisi761 Год назад +3385

    This man just killed the hopes and dreams of so many astronauts that wanted to take balloons in space.

    • @UltimateEntity
      @UltimateEntity Год назад

      Indeed man, astronauts r retards

    • @imanuelc143
      @imanuelc143 Год назад +29

      I got triggered when you say that 3 word

    • @cpaterson4691
      @cpaterson4691 Год назад +66

      This man killed the dreams of kids who wanted to use baloons to go to space...

    • @RiderBlitz1.0
      @RiderBlitz1.0 Год назад +5

      But the actual space doesn't have gravity, whats going on?

    • @RiderBlitz1.0
      @RiderBlitz1.0 Год назад +4

      @Mr. Think then which direction will the balloons go? Since in the video it goes downward cause we're one earth, i get that the balloon will not float away on its own in space, it should stay stationary, no?

  • @GeigerCheck
    @GeigerCheck Год назад +1698

    I remember asking my 6th grade teacher "where does helium go in space?" She didn't comprehend my question.

    • @ms9001
      @ms9001 Год назад +262

      it goes everywhere. your question did not mention balloon.

    • @yeasstt
      @yeasstt Год назад +99

      @KSG this isn't true. The rate at which helium is escapes is extremely slow. Helium shortages happen when helium plants shut down.
      What we are running out of is the federal helium reserve. Helium is so easy to obtain nowadays that the US government has decided to let private companies produce it and is trying to get rid of its stockpile
      Edit: Forgot to mention that we can also make helium through any radioactive decay, as He-4 is identical to an alpha particle. As long as there is any radioactive substance on earth, there will be helium. Worst case scenario we can try to do nuclear fusion with hydrogen obtained from the electrolysis of water to artificially make helium too

    • @MsZsc
      @MsZsc Год назад +4

      @@yeasstt what about the tom scott video

    • @drunkenhobo8020
      @drunkenhobo8020 Год назад +20

      @@yeasstt This is so incomprehensibly wrong I don't even know where to begin.

    • @mangalegends
      @mangalegends Год назад +60

      @@drunkenhobo8020 Enlighten us bro. Don't leave us hanging!

  • @TotallyTaRz
    @TotallyTaRz Год назад +592

    I like how the one balloon was confused after reintroduces to air

    • @FawnTheCreator
      @FawnTheCreator Год назад +15

      **Phrueruirueorrororoorororoeoeoeoeororoeioeorororrirrruururururuururururruururuuuuuuuuuuuuu intensifies**

    • @fakestory1753
      @fakestory1753 Год назад +4

      it is drowning

  • @mikeruchington4882
    @mikeruchington4882 Год назад +281

    No birthdays in space confirmed. Top tier science

    • @YourCapyBruv_do_u_rmbr_3Dpipes
      @YourCapyBruv_do_u_rmbr_3Dpipes Год назад +4

      😂 I guess if they fill the balloons up with regular air, not helium, they'll float? I mean since everything else does?

    • @WanderingMerchantPG3D
      @WanderingMerchantPG3D Год назад +2

      @@YourCapyBruv_do_u_rmbr_3Dpipes yea maybe hydrogen

    • @Monkey_Luffy01
      @Monkey_Luffy01 Год назад

      @@WanderingMerchantPG3D it's still less dense

    • @mucia55
      @mucia55 Год назад

      @@Monkey_Luffy01 wym?
      Less dense than what?..

    • @Monkey_Luffy01
      @Monkey_Luffy01 Год назад +1

      @@mucia55 less than oxygen
      Hydrogen is 16 times less dense than oxygen!

  • @Zephyriates
    @Zephyriates Год назад +40

    Helium: a legitimate substance used in industrial technology
    People: hehe, floaty go brrr

  • @parkerellis746
    @parkerellis746 Год назад +495

    Man where is a balloon gonna *fall* in outer space

    • @nollie_ollie8358
      @nollie_ollie8358 Год назад +73

      falling is when something gets pulled by the gravity of something, so it still applies in space.

    • @chewinggum5550
      @chewinggum5550 Год назад +27

      on the moon where there is no air it will fall to surface

    • @Totally_Bonkers
      @Totally_Bonkers Год назад +8

      In space, it'll fall unless it's orbiting somethings

    • @syiridium703
      @syiridium703 Год назад +22

      Most importantly, in space, nobody is going to hear it pop 🔪

    • @FrailOmen
      @FrailOmen Год назад +1

      Ikr💀

  • @Kweequ
    @Kweequ Год назад +23

    That one kid who accidentally made his helium balloon fly away: So there still is a chance.

    • @i3rimstonefox
      @i3rimstonefox Год назад

      Homie, he gonna take away our atmosphere killing all the human race just for the chance to get a balloon back, justified

  • @YourfriendlyneighborhoodChevy
    @YourfriendlyneighborhoodChevy Год назад +11

    >vacuum chamber.
    >air around the balloon... l
    *confused screaming*

  • @YoungGandalf2325
    @YoungGandalf2325 Год назад +198

    Helium wouldn't fall in space if there is no gravity. The title of the video should be Helium falls in a vacuum.

    • @Zveebo
      @Zveebo Год назад +50

      There is always some gravity. Everything in space is falling towards something else.

    • @MarkHobbes
      @MarkHobbes Год назад +18

      @@Zveebo If you are in the middle distance between two galaxies or in the middle of the Boötes void, the effect would be almost not noticiable.

    • @nielsdaemen
      @nielsdaemen Год назад +24

      No, since he used the example on the moon he should put that in the title!

    • @UnChannelDuVulpineX
      @UnChannelDuVulpineX Год назад +4

      @@nielsdaemen YES!

    • @justynpryce
      @justynpryce Год назад +2

      Your correction has the same issue b/c helium wouldn't fall in a vacuum if there was no gravity. . . it's almost like it doesn't really matter and the point came across anyway

  • @chaseb.4811
    @chaseb.4811 Год назад +10

    They wouldn’t fall in space, they fall in the vacuum chamber because of the gravitational pull of earth. In space it would stay where it is.

  • @andewfusthe3rd
    @andewfusthe3rd Год назад +4

    *confused astronaut noises* “when did we say helium floats in space?”

  • @Greg_Rock
    @Greg_Rock Год назад +65

    now add a tiny bit of nitrogen back in to make them neutrally buoyant

    • @nielsdaemen
      @nielsdaemen Год назад +2

      Impossible to get it exactly neutral. And why did you say nitrogen and not air?

    • @chitorunya
      @chitorunya Год назад +6

      @@nielsdaemen air is majority nitrogen

    • @chewinggum5550
      @chewinggum5550 Год назад +1

      @@chitorunya *claps*

    • @suppertma4603
      @suppertma4603 Год назад +1

      @@chewinggum5550 cheeks

    • @robertt9342
      @robertt9342 Год назад +1

      @@chitorunya what was your point again? It will be more than ONLY nitrogen when adding air into the chamber.

  • @ataahmadi
    @ataahmadi Год назад +210

    Oh that's why I can't float good to know

    • @alex.g7317
      @alex.g7317 Год назад +1

      I don’t get the joke

    • @thebattlebarley2308
      @thebattlebarley2308 Год назад +1

      @@alex.g7317 same

    • @duncanchillake8024
      @duncanchillake8024 Год назад +11

      @@alex.g7317 he is denser than the environment around him, so he can't walk on it, which is why he can't float

    • @alex.g7317
      @alex.g7317 Год назад +1

      @@duncanchillake8024 cant walk on what?

    • @frostonium
      @frostonium Год назад +1

      @@alex.g7317 air

  • @Teh_Clown
    @Teh_Clown Год назад +2

    The way the ballon shakes like a Floridian drug addict I cant💀

  • @dingojo
    @dingojo Год назад +2

    I find this so interesting, it's the same reason as to why a hammer and a feather drop at the same speed on the moon.

  • @c.Orange
    @c.Orange Год назад +1

    For those 3 people that are still struggling after seeing this short:
    The reason why helium goes up is because it wants to floats on air like wood on water, making air less dense makes the helium fall because the less dense air is lighter than the helium.

  • @jimsmith7212
    @jimsmith7212 Год назад +3

    On the Moon a helium balloon a hammer and a feather would all fall at the same rate; 1.62 m/s².

    • @ikilledaman
      @ikilledaman Год назад +1

      yea cuz no air resistance

    • @DANGJOS
      @DANGJOS Год назад

      ​@@ikilledaman and no buoyancy

  • @Snowfireblues
    @Snowfireblues Год назад +1

    BTW, vacuum is the most buoyant in air. the problem is, it's a bit hard to find a material light enough to allow the vacuum to float without caving into itself under the negative pressure.

  • @shawnalexander868
    @shawnalexander868 Год назад

    When I asked myself this question. Action lab came to mind for the answer, but I googled it didnt understand the wording. Only to eventually search on youtube and boom! he actually did it and showed the process. Thank you very much. I am your number 1 supporter here in Trinidad and Tobago.

  • @jafengaming
    @jafengaming Год назад

    Idk why, but the balloon spazzing out after the air was reintroduced was hilarious to me.

  • @DragonProtector174
    @DragonProtector174 2 месяца назад +1

    I lost it at the sad astronaut image

  • @dylanlamarre3768
    @dylanlamarre3768 Год назад

    If this was in a physics quiz I would have 100% gotten the outcome wrong

  • @luisrosado7050
    @luisrosado7050 Год назад +1

    Astronauts in the International Space Station: no we know..

  • @lantempo
    @lantempo Год назад +1

    Remeber space has no gravity so it won’t go up or down it will just stay in the same place

  • @TheEvanDude112
    @TheEvanDude112 Год назад +1

    Sorry, Action Lab - Helium balloons can’t fall in space without gravity

  • @johyo.2297
    @johyo.2297 Год назад +2

    A litle bit of static "Baloon violently vibrating*

  • @macblastoff7700
    @macblastoff7700 Год назад +2

    This was a good short--right up to the "Sorry, astronauts." line.

  • @YoungGandalf2325
    @YoungGandalf2325 Год назад +4

    If a helium balloon pops in a vacuum, does it make a sound?

    • @josephmurphy417
      @josephmurphy417 Год назад +6

      I get this is a joke but in case anyone doesn't know this and is wondering no because vacuums don't have particles or atoms for the vibrations to travel through so everything in a vacuum is completely silent

    • @demonfreeman3018
      @demonfreeman3018 Год назад +3

      @@josephmurphy417 actually, the balloon popping could create sound as the particles from the balloon travel in a wave to your ear.

    • @josephmurphy417
      @josephmurphy417 Год назад +2

      @@demonfreeman3018 no sorry but there aren't enough particles to support sound vibration plus it needs to be a solid line of particles from the balloon to your eardrum which is why even if a whole rocket exploded it'd be completely silent since as soon as it begins breaking the particles are all sucked out and scattered across the vacuum making incomplete chains that can't reach your ears to make sound because the constant separation of the particles due to the vacuum instantly stops the vibrations at the source

    • @YoungGandalf2325
      @YoungGandalf2325 Год назад +1

      @@josephmurphy417 I know it's said that there's no sound in space. But if you put a microphone inside the vacuum chamber, would it pick up anything from the expanding helium?
      Edit: Now I'm thinking there should be sound if it pops inside a vacuum chamber, as a balloon will probably pop before there is a complete vacuum. But what would happen if you put a microphone right next to a balloon or exploding object in space?

    • @cpaterson4691
      @cpaterson4691 Год назад +2

      Good chat

  • @iname1964
    @iname1964 Год назад +1

    think of air as water, it’s easier to think of it that way

  • @CATel_
    @CATel_ Год назад +1

    Makes sense, helium still has a weight, it's just buoyant

  • @ZiperJet
    @ZiperJet Год назад

    Meanwhile astronaut: Yeah.. ok ( flips himself upside down)

  • @movax20h
    @movax20h Год назад

    The funny thing is, the helium balloons move up, not because they are lighter than air, but because a pressure of air at the bottom of the balloon is slightly higher than pressure of air at the top of the balloon. This is true, even if fluid is fully in-compressible, as in-compressible fluids in gravitational field (constant or slowly changing) still do have pressure gradient.

  • @mechanicalmonk2020
    @mechanicalmonk2020 Год назад +1

    Helium falls on Earth too. It just lifts faster than it falls 😜

  • @Darkninjasham
    @Darkninjasham Год назад +1

    Helium is less dense than air
    But with no air helium is heavy

  • @I_Am_AI_007
    @I_Am_AI_007 Год назад +1

    You thought the astronauts didn't know that??

  • @Dumbrarere
    @Dumbrarere Год назад +8

    This is basically the physics of weather balloons as they reach the thinnest parts of the atmosphere.

  • @Johnnaan
    @Johnnaan Год назад +2

    No wonder no one has birthdays on the moon

  • @delicious_delusions9973
    @delicious_delusions9973 Год назад +1

    What do you mean sorry? That sounds like budget space tennis to me

  • @christmassnow3465
    @christmassnow3465 Год назад +1

    "... Sorry astronauts". What? Didn't they know that?

  • @nmcgunagle
    @nmcgunagle Год назад +2

    I was starting to wonder if your vacuum chamber was okay. Glad to see it again.

  • @Melechtna
    @Melechtna 5 дней назад

    It's actually why helium doesn't like to stick around on earth once it starts leaking out. Basically as soon as the atmosphere ejects it, while it stops floating, whatever momentum it's gained, it'll basically never lose and just zip off into space unless it just happens to hit something.

  • @centauria9122
    @centauria9122 Год назад +1

    So helium can't just drift off to space, but would stay at a point. That is if the balloon doesn't pop like they usually do.

  • @alexthegordonhighlander1159
    @alexthegordonhighlander1159 Год назад +1

    Funny how NASA & space tech is the worlds biggest users of Helium.

  • @thirshprodab4127
    @thirshprodab4127 Год назад

    When you just started learning density...

  • @videogamescoverftw
    @videogamescoverftw Год назад

    The balloon doesn't even need to be filled with helium to see the effects of this, the less dense an object is the more air it will displace meaning that if you truly have a kilogram (in mass) of steel and a kilogram of feathers the steel will ACTUALLY be a measurable amount heavier than the feathers due to the displaced air creating more buoyant force on the feathers

  • @ivangood1871
    @ivangood1871 Год назад +1

    Well, if it's in space, there should be zero gravity, where everything floats......

  • @TheAdvertisement
    @TheAdvertisement Год назад +1

    I think this is one of the few things I actually knew already for once.

  • @Destroyer40k0
    @Destroyer40k0 Год назад

    Well, it also doesn’t go up because there isn’t really an up to go, in the vacuum of space it’ll pop, on a space station it’ll go away from any sort of gravity so it’d prob just slowly float away from the earth

  • @Kemptation5142
    @Kemptation5142 Год назад

    Not the best wording so a bit of clarification; balloons will fall nowhere in pure space. Both falling and the associated downward direction are are dependent on the presence of gravity (or some other acceleration constant). On a celestial body with a low atmosphere however, this will hold true. This is because for something to float the density of the surrounding fluid (or air) times the volume displaced or occupied by the balloon must be greater than the mass of the ballon itself. However the actual acceleration of a body is multiplied by gravity. No gravity no acceleration.

  • @whatworks3006
    @whatworks3006 Год назад +3

    Wait a minute finally something that makes sense

  • @karatekid7640
    @karatekid7640 Год назад +1

    Ruined all my plans , Is there even a point to have birthday party in space now ...

  • @YourCapyBruv_do_u_rmbr_3Dpipes

    People on the space station are going to be very disappointed

  • @nShobhit
    @nShobhit Год назад +1

    This one was just common sense

  • @yeonbibi191
    @yeonbibi191 Год назад +1

    I was so ready in case a ballon pops

  • @_random_info
    @_random_info Год назад

    Gravity doing tricks as usual

  • @mindycarnahan8237
    @mindycarnahan8237 Год назад +1

    They would be able to play soccer on the moon! 😂

  • @LLO227
    @LLO227 Год назад +1

    Looks like gravity is stronger than the " air " around the balloon.

    • @thefourshowflip
      @thefourshowflip Год назад

      Since the chamber isn’t a “true” vacuum, then yes, this is an accurate way to describe the system; the buoyant forces are not sufficient to overcome the gravitational attraction in this environment.

  • @dest3005
    @dest3005 Год назад

    I love how the balloon was breakdancing when the air got back in

  • @platy8915
    @platy8915 Год назад +2

    well technically it wouldn't fall either it would just kind of sit there like everything else.

    • @castleanthrax1833
      @castleanthrax1833 Год назад +1

      Technically, no it wouldn't. It would move towards whatever has the biggest gravitational "pull".

  • @cenchloraadums3143
    @cenchloraadums3143 Год назад +1

    Video caption is kind of misleading. In space there's nowhere to fall. Falling occurs under gravity.

  • @midwestsirens
    @midwestsirens Год назад

    Not only do they require air but they also require gravity.

  • @boipeloboikhutso106
    @boipeloboikhutso106 Год назад

    "Sorry Astronauts",saying it as if he knows even one Astronaut or the power of their innovation.

  • @Pyxis10
    @Pyxis10 Год назад

    It also wouldn't float well in the jovoan atmospheres, till it got below a certain height.

  • @robotboytrbmobile4945
    @robotboytrbmobile4945 2 месяца назад +1

    How to prove to a flat earther that gravity exists and that gravity isn't buoyancy

  • @anengineer152
    @anengineer152 Год назад

    This man outsmart the intelligent astronauts within minutes 😂

  • @cjames9320
    @cjames9320 Год назад

    They won't fall in space unless they're subject to gravity.

  • @joelmulder
    @joelmulder Год назад

    And on the ISS it would just over in place, since there is no atmospheric pressure gradient.
    (Although it would get pulled around by the airflow of the air recyclers)

  • @darrianweathington1923
    @darrianweathington1923 Год назад +2

    So if it doesn't pop... Does that mean that a balloon would be trapped between space and earth forever?

    • @bunnykiller
      @bunnykiller Год назад

      not forever, but for quite a while tho...

  • @scottdeller
    @scottdeller Год назад

    I always tjought Thor: L & T was fiction... I just learned mass does float in space!... Space Boats are REAL!!! Thank you Science Dude!!!

  • @blacklight683
    @blacklight683 Год назад +1

    I thought the vacuum will just pop the balloon

  • @samiminer9338
    @samiminer9338 Год назад +1

    Well than just fill it with air so that way it's always the same density...

  • @gabedarrett1301
    @gabedarrett1301 Год назад

    Fun fact: the minimum volume needed for you to float in water is ~1 cubic foot. Since air is 1000x less dense, you'd need a balloon with at least ~1000 cubic feet to float in the air (think of a cube 10x10x10 feet)

  • @BFTAC0
    @BFTAC0 Год назад

    I was confused for a second and remembering all the running out of helium business. Wouldn't that rule dictate that helium wouldn't leak from the atmosphere but instead work the opposite way? The balloon has gravity, oh yeah and the helium no longer has enough buoyancy to lift it. Helium still floats around normally in space without the gravitational pull from the balloon.

  • @SniperOnSunday
    @SniperOnSunday Год назад

    That's where you're wrong: Outer space doesn't have enough gravity for it to fall!

  • @theelder4797
    @theelder4797 Год назад

    Yeah, that's how all things work: not the mythical gravity.

  • @IoanTheMan
    @IoanTheMan Год назад

    So basically if you send a hellium balloon in the space it will stay between the Earth and the space...

  • @Human.Inteligence.
    @Human.Inteligence. 7 месяцев назад

    Could you help to understand a query?
    They say Space is Vacuum
    Could the Inflate a baloon in space which has no vacuum?
    In lay term, Can a balloon get air blown in space?
    Awaiting reply.
    .

  • @JETZcorp
    @JETZcorp Год назад

    Space is pretty diverse. On the moon, yeah it'll sink. In orbit, or free floating in open space, it will be as weightless as anything else. Even in air onboard a spaceship, a helium and a water balloon are both equally weightless and without bouyancy.

  • @ryanpruneau4937
    @ryanpruneau4937 23 дня назад

    How would a helium balloon behave on a space station?

  • @AmtrakBoy42
    @AmtrakBoy42 Год назад

    Sorry Action Labs, it doesn’t matter what’s in the balloon, it’s not going anywhere without gravity.

  • @randomviewer8857
    @randomviewer8857 Год назад

    Really appreciate your videos. Very helpful. Learning new things every day

  • @samuelprice538
    @samuelprice538 Год назад

    if you could make the structure strong enough and light enough you can make a lighter than air "balloon" that it's"filled" with a vacuum. it would work better than the same structure filled with helium.

  • @myetoob23
    @myetoob23 Год назад

    The real question is, if inhaled in space, would it still give you a high pitched voice?

  • @Unionthewizard
    @Unionthewizard Год назад

    So that's why the ships in star wars all ways fall

  • @rareshogas8683
    @rareshogas8683 Год назад

    Makes sense. Nothingness has 0 mass 0 density so anything would sink. Maybe even an electron if you give it time

  • @thegreatlordcthulhu9852
    @thegreatlordcthulhu9852 Месяц назад

    That balloon is so dramatic

  • @Finchyboi14470
    @Finchyboi14470 2 месяца назад

    Technically nothing falls in space

  • @hackking911
    @hackking911 Год назад

    Astronauts hate him and his one sneaky trick

  • @I_am_your_father3
    @I_am_your_father3 Год назад +1

    But if it was in space, which direction would it fall in???? Questions to be answered

  • @salmonthefirst
    @salmonthefirst Год назад

    If you turn upside down, it should start to go up

  • @themysticman5378
    @themysticman5378 Год назад +13

    GRAVITY?💀

  • @thomasfholland
    @thomasfholland Год назад +3

    I gotta admit that I love your shorts! They’re my favorites

  • @okwatever3582
    @okwatever3582 Год назад

    The balloon would just stop at a certain point when air density is equal to helium balloon density or else the balloon just pop as it expands

  • @vovanikotin
    @vovanikotin Год назад

    Now pump balloon by vacuum and check if it fly in air

  • @why_n
    @why_n Год назад

    Unless, theres only micro gravity

  • @TheItchyDani3l
    @TheItchyDani3l Год назад

    The helium doesn't push it's way up. The heavier air is pushing it's way down past the balloon

  • @Theguywithspectacles
    @Theguywithspectacles Год назад

    Astronauts disliked the video

  • @danielbickford3458
    @danielbickford3458 Год назад

    Well helium balloon won't float on the moon, you can still have an oxygen helium mix and have the astronaut sound really funny

  • @wiks50
    @wiks50 Год назад

    It makes sense. Helium is lighter than air but it cannot be lighter than literal nothing

  • @D-train69
    @D-train69 Год назад

    So gravity is still a constant even in a vacuum chamber