He sounds like an "old timer" sucking on Helium!

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A latex balloon bio-degrades about as fast as an oak leaf. A birds' most-likely smart enough not to swallow one whole.
No lady, you are passionately mistaken. It takes less time for the latex to degrade in salt water the temperature being a non-issue. Admittedly though, it's a waste of helium and a balloon for the sake of video game software and it might choke a few seagulls, none of which will be missed, as San Fran has seen such an explosive rise in their numbers since being placed on the over-protected list, that they are encroaching on the habitats of less fortunate and more endangered species.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/31/san-francisco-seagulls_n_3672793.html

Fucking Californians. Heads-shoved-up-one's-own-ass-disorder seems to flourish there like barnacles on a ship's hull.

Well, helium is the product of fusion. However, even if we found some "cheap" or "cold" way to fuse hydrogen into helium, I dont think it would be cheap enough to produce useful amounts. Ie producing enough energy to keep a light bulb on for 300 years will produce 1 balloon full of helium. (http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/teachers/hera/spectroscopy/snr/fusion_calculation.html)

Or a reason to figure out practical fusion reactors. Isn't helium a byproduct?

For this reason I kinda hope we actually burn through our earthly helium supply ASAP. Then we'd finally have an incentive for urgent planetary exploration that the government understands.

I hope noone does this shit ever again.
Helium is a finite resource, and its getting rare.

We need it for things like medical scanning machines, particle colliders, nuclear detectors....my god what a waste.

The recovery diver is using a Heliox (helium plus oxygen) gas mixture. Normal air is mostly nitrogen and oxygen, but both of those gasses can cause problems under the extreme pressures of deep dives. Nitrogen at high pressures makes you drunk ("nitrogen narcosis") and oxygen can be toxic.
In Heliox, the nitrogen has been replaced by helium, avoiding the drunkenness at the cost of a high-pitched voice. Concentrations of oxygen are also usually lower, reducing oxygen toxicity.

You know i see this crap... And I think helium is such a precious resource and we waste like a bunch of animals.

So i'm guessing he didn't use helium? Actually, using Helium to fill up party balloons is incredible stupid use of the precious gas. Our current Helium storages are emptying out and there's no other way to produce it in the future than to extract it from the air.. The cost will make it at par with gold and platinum, our technology can not survive without it and US sells it at a fraction of it's real price... Next generations will mock us because of it...

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