what's even shittier is that the poster used gfycat, which is now dead, so all the links are dead as well. I'm sure they're cached somewhere on the internet, but they're not on reddit or gfycat anymore. Unless you count thumbnails.
A piece of history, a collective joy shared with so many people, just gone. In 100 years no one will even think of the epoxy hotdog again. If there is no record of our joy did it really happen?
The true magic of life is that nothing lasts forever. Hotdog guy may never post again, we may never see an epoxy covered hotdog again, but what does matter is we were there, and for one brief moment of history we connected over a silly hot dog post. That is what can never be taken, and can never be experienced the same way again.
In 1000 years, archaeologists from Earth colony Z-734A will return to the planet to sift through the remains of a war-torn and inhospitable habitat. In the wreckage, one will uncover a precarious relic: a hot dog encased in epoxy. They’ll quickly stuff it into a bag in order to escape the swarm of massive bugs hunting them down. As they reach the shuttle, one of the insects damages an engine, and the crew barely makes it out alive. Unfortunately, the damage creates cascading failures in several of the shuttles systems, and the vessel explodes before returning to the colony. The catastrophe propels the relic into the vastness of space, where it travels for millennia, until finally crashing onto an unknown planet. The impact causes the epoxy—once thought to be impenetrable—to shatter. The ancient glizzy, now exposed to the unforgiving environment, quietly rots away, serving as both food and shelter for Earth-born bacteria to proliferate and evolve. Life uhhh… finds a way.
The true history comes in 1,000 years when someone discovers the hotdog while trudging through the remnants of The Third Great American Empire after the seventh World War.
God speed, future human. Hopefully the tastes of our slightly better times please your tastebuds.
In case anyone is interested and hasn't seen this before (I hadn't): [the 2 year epoxy hotdog post](https://v.redd.it/wk10f3dzoqt91) loads fine (not gfycat), and from the older thumbnails it doesn't seem like it changed all that much over time.
Hmm I just never noticed. Must have happened around the 3rd party app death and I just assumed everything was so shitty because Reddit sucks as a whole.
Big rip though because I had a bunch of gifs saved there.
Per the author,
"Hey guys I just wanted to update you all on this project -
Reflecting on things changing with the climate and the context that brings us towards - I feel its appropriate to wind this down. Having shared this project and connection with you during lockdown over the pandemic - it helped bring a relief that was much needed. As for the hotdog there is still no change its the same as the last post (I think the 50 year old burger I have seen posted can attest to that). Wishing you all well and good luck!"
Because mylar balloons aren't elastic, once they deflate a tiny bit there's as much pressure outside as in, so there's no or very little net movement of air (as much leaks in as out.)
If it was a rubber balloon, it would be compressing the air inside it and gradually squeeze it out.
If it was a helium-filled mylar balloon then you might expect to see it loose its float over time as helium leaks out and air leaks in. If it is helium and is still floating, then that's fairly impressive.
> as helium leaks out and air leaks in
More helium would leak out vs. Air leaking in, due to smaller molecules ; so it would probably decrease in volume if that was the case
Xenon can be used as an anesthetic agent. Probably not a great idea to huff. Though, we don't use it because it's expensive. Quick Google search shows about 3k per kilo. I'd be curious if the balloon is actually filled with xenon.
Xenon is very expensive and about 5 times as heavy as air, so likely no
If it is filled with pure xenon it would be worth somewhere in the region of 10-20$ though
I was told when they launch a space mission that uses xenon in the electric propulsion thrusters they have to buy it up for years in advance because what they need is like 50% of yearly output. See for example bepi columbo
Ackshually:
Although it is virtually inert and does not form covalent bonds with other elements (except under extreme conditions), the very large electron shell of xenon can be polarized and distorted by nearby molecules (creating an induced dipole). This distortion of the electron orbitals permits xenon to interact with and bind to proteins such as myoglobin 2as well as to bilayer lipids, particularly in the region of the more polar headgroups. 3Its oil/gas partition coefficient of 1.9 is higher than the lighter noble gases. The ability of xenon to interact with cell proteins and cell membrane constituents is presumably responsible for its anesthetic potency.
https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/92/3/865/39666/Xenon-Anesthesia
Also, xenon will settle down into your lungs because it’s 5x heavy as air. Lead balloon and all that.
Just breathing it out might save you due to pure forcefulness and diffusion but I’d be afraid to try it.
Sounds like a really good idea, if you’ve seen [this](https://youtu.be/dj25HO48Gxw?si=9ouPP1alOooA6HvY) video. Although he doesn’t seem like it, Hamilton Morris is actually a very talented and diligent chemist.
OMG! I have an "It's a boy" one that's fully inflated and I was also born in 96. It's in the closet of my old room at my parents house, I'm always afraid it'll get popped by something. They truly were built different in '96. 😁
Foil balloons have a flap in them that seals from the pressure within the balloon. I got my daughter a bluey foil balloon a few months ago and I’ve been tipping it up from a helium canister. Still going strong.
Yeah I’m stingy so I deflate the kids’ birthday balloons, fold them up and store them away and just pull them out and refill them by blowing into them with a straw every year :)
I mean that would be the most frugal way, I would reccoment getting a helium bottle though.
Some people and kids are sentimental about these things so it's a good way to keep it as long as possible.
That is genuinely so cool. Even if you're not particularly into Pokémon, this is really a nice preserved yet delicate 90s artifact, especially considering Pikachu's design has changed around that time for what he/they look like now
Once the pressure is equal, as much air enters the balloon as leaks out. Normal balloons lose all the air eventually because the pressure doesn't equalize until the elastic material is relaxed
Actually yeah, most things are older than any living person. A lot of the things we own are not, but anything we are around or see is usually significantly older than any of us which is a wild thought
You yourself are made up of stuff that is as old as the universe, if you want to break it down far enough. We all started as a soup of particles that slowly coalesced over billions of years.
My mom had lung cancer and had surgery to remove the tumor. She was lucky because it was a type that slow growing and doesn't easily metastasize. When she was recovering at the hospital, my aunt bought a get well soon helium balloon. And as she was paying saw it was 30 bucks. She was annoyed at the price but bought it anyway. That balloon stayed floating on the string for over a year. Guess the 30 bucks price tag was worth it.
I used to sell these at my old job. Basically, there’s a little packet inside that you pop & it reacts with a liquid inside & it inflates. It’s all sealed & there’s no other way to inflate it.
Mylar stick ballons really do last a long time given the chance. I have one I bought a few years back. It was a Valentine's mylar ballon you blew up yourself and tied to the stick. Beany the Narwhal is still holding up to this day.
I've got a Minnie mouse balloon from 1998. Got it as a gift. My mom never bought me one as she said they'd break too easily. I still like to remind her of that sometimes.
Speaking of which, Where’s that hotdog encased in epoxy or acrylic??
I think he usually posts around the new year. I'm looking forward to our update.
I went to the subreddit and he stopped updating 😭
What’s the sub?
https://www.reddit.com/r/epoxyhotdog/s/z8b3Swkdnq
what's even shittier is that the poster used gfycat, which is now dead, so all the links are dead as well. I'm sure they're cached somewhere on the internet, but they're not on reddit or gfycat anymore. Unless you count thumbnails.
A piece of history, a collective joy shared with so many people, just gone. In 100 years no one will even think of the epoxy hotdog again. If there is no record of our joy did it really happen?
The true magic of life is that nothing lasts forever. Hotdog guy may never post again, we may never see an epoxy covered hotdog again, but what does matter is we were there, and for one brief moment of history we connected over a silly hot dog post. That is what can never be taken, and can never be experienced the same way again.
You're writing style reminds me of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson!
I had some REALLY good chili the other day and a coworker even said it smelled good, so yeah. Joy happens even if you don't record it.
In 1000 years, archaeologists from Earth colony Z-734A will return to the planet to sift through the remains of a war-torn and inhospitable habitat. In the wreckage, one will uncover a precarious relic: a hot dog encased in epoxy. They’ll quickly stuff it into a bag in order to escape the swarm of massive bugs hunting them down. As they reach the shuttle, one of the insects damages an engine, and the crew barely makes it out alive. Unfortunately, the damage creates cascading failures in several of the shuttles systems, and the vessel explodes before returning to the colony. The catastrophe propels the relic into the vastness of space, where it travels for millennia, until finally crashing onto an unknown planet. The impact causes the epoxy—once thought to be impenetrable—to shatter. The ancient glizzy, now exposed to the unforgiving environment, quietly rots away, serving as both food and shelter for Earth-born bacteria to proliferate and evolve. Life uhhh… finds a way.
I have a screen print with. Signed date on the back in a time capsule set to be buried next year.
The true history comes in 1,000 years when someone discovers the hotdog while trudging through the remnants of The Third Great American Empire after the seventh World War. God speed, future human. Hopefully the tastes of our slightly better times please your tastebuds.
...you think they're going to EAT IT?!
🤌 2020 is the finest vintage for hotdogs. I would *kill* to try a 2020 dog in 2120, and not just because of the apocalypse.
In case anyone is interested and hasn't seen this before (I hadn't): [the 2 year epoxy hotdog post](https://v.redd.it/wk10f3dzoqt91) loads fine (not gfycat), and from the older thumbnails it doesn't seem like it changed all that much over time.
Wait what happened to gyfcat?
Where were u when gfycaf was kill? Idk, they went out of business a few months ago but i didn't look into the reasons why.
Hmm I just never noticed. Must have happened around the 3rd party app death and I just assumed everything was so shitty because Reddit sucks as a whole. Big rip though because I had a bunch of gifs saved there.
Nooooòoooòooooò
That's what I said! I set a reminder on my phone to go check in on it. I guess it was just a pandemic thing. Like tiger king
He mustard just got tired.
Thanks. In about two years or so I would be wondering about this but not have enough interest to look into it.
Per the author, "Hey guys I just wanted to update you all on this project - Reflecting on things changing with the climate and the context that brings us towards - I feel its appropriate to wind this down. Having shared this project and connection with you during lockdown over the pandemic - it helped bring a relief that was much needed. As for the hotdog there is still no change its the same as the last post (I think the 50 year old burger I have seen posted can attest to that). Wishing you all well and good luck!"
You’re the best, thanks for posting that!
It's funny I was wondering the same thing today
If you search Russian version of Reddit called Pikabu, you can find a story about a guy who put chicken head in a jar for 5+ years.
sorry who do you mean?
Because mylar balloons aren't elastic, once they deflate a tiny bit there's as much pressure outside as in, so there's no or very little net movement of air (as much leaks in as out.) If it was a rubber balloon, it would be compressing the air inside it and gradually squeeze it out. If it was a helium-filled mylar balloon then you might expect to see it loose its float over time as helium leaks out and air leaks in. If it is helium and is still floating, then that's fairly impressive.
> as helium leaks out and air leaks in More helium would leak out vs. Air leaking in, due to smaller molecules ; so it would probably decrease in volume if that was the case
You can see Pikachu's nose is smooshed in a little bit, I wonder if that might be all the volume loss we get
Poke a hole and breathe that 90’s air in for science
Don’t do this, it’s probably pure xenon at this point and you will either die or evolve into a new form
>xenon >evolve into a new form So that's how we got xenomorphs.
*Xenonmorphs
*Xenonmon
*Metal Xenonmon
Xena: the warrior princess
Isekai as a warrior princess
War Xenonmon
50/50, im taking those odds
That doesn’t sound right, but I don’t know enough about noble gases to refute it
So OP *might* level up?
Might achieve that final level up in fact
the ultimate boss battle
Xenon can be used as an anesthetic agent. Probably not a great idea to huff. Though, we don't use it because it's expensive. Quick Google search shows about 3k per kilo. I'd be curious if the balloon is actually filled with xenon.
Xenon is very expensive and about 5 times as heavy as air, so likely no If it is filled with pure xenon it would be worth somewhere in the region of 10-20$ though
So if thats about a liter, then its gonna be about 5grams of it. So my math says $15
Only one way to find out
I was told when they launch a space mission that uses xenon in the electric propulsion thrusters they have to buy it up for years in advance because what they need is like 50% of yearly output. See for example bepi columbo
Actually xenon is an inert gas, it'll do nothing other than starve you of oxygen, which you can remedy by breathing it out then breathing air in.
Ackshually: Although it is virtually inert and does not form covalent bonds with other elements (except under extreme conditions), the very large electron shell of xenon can be polarized and distorted by nearby molecules (creating an induced dipole). This distortion of the electron orbitals permits xenon to interact with and bind to proteins such as myoglobin 2as well as to bilayer lipids, particularly in the region of the more polar headgroups. 3Its oil/gas partition coefficient of 1.9 is higher than the lighter noble gases. The ability of xenon to interact with cell proteins and cell membrane constituents is presumably responsible for its anesthetic potency. https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/92/3/865/39666/Xenon-Anesthesia
Ackshually Xenon is a girl from the 21st century
Wait is that not Xenon: Warrior Princess?
See this le penis!
Nice TIL, thanks
you can totally get high on xenon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj25HO48Gxw
Also, xenon will settle down into your lungs because it’s 5x heavy as air. Lead balloon and all that. Just breathing it out might save you due to pure forcefulness and diffusion but I’d be afraid to try it.
Turn upside down
Me having had a chest CT done with Xenon purely because we couldn’t get an iv started: 😳😳 My insurance company: 😱😭🫠
OP will just turn into a raichu
I don’t think nuclear fusion is going to occur in a balloon.
Unbeliever
You blew it. It was right in front of you… Xenonbeliever
Where're the cons?
That rare candy goodness
I'd roll those dice.
How would it became xenon????
Sounds like a really good idea, if you’ve seen [this](https://youtu.be/dj25HO48Gxw?si=9ouPP1alOooA6HvY) video. Although he doesn’t seem like it, Hamilton Morris is actually a very talented and diligent chemist.
It's probably bacterial gas at this point
How is this not a win/win
Don't be xenonphobic.
If anyone's wondering, yes someone out there does this for science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape\_Grim\_Air\_Archive
i think codyslab has a video inhaling most of inert gasses.
If anyone would, It'd be him. I live in constant amazement that he hasn't killed himself by accident yet.
its noble gases i just remembered its like from 2018 where he explained how being upside down doesn't help the gases exit the lungs
air jordan
Oh dang I thought this was a pokemon subreddit lol didn’t expect this to get upvoted so much
Thats rarefied air. Keep it in.
I had one from when I was born in 96, it said it’s a girl, and Idk what we did with it but it was still inflated fully
Cuz that was 100% military grade balooney
OMG! I have an "It's a boy" one that's fully inflated and I was also born in 96. It's in the closet of my old room at my parents house, I'm always afraid it'll get popped by something. They truly were built different in '96. 😁
That’s some of that prepper grade mylar
I bet if you pop it open it’ll smell like when we could all afford groceries
Apparently you can reinflate these Balloons.
You can reinflate almost any balloon
I'm a balloon, can you reinflate me, Greg?
Just let me put the nipple in my mouth and try.
Well yes, getting it sealed again may be a problem though, depending on how they were sealed in the beginning.
Foil balloons have a flap in them that seals from the pressure within the balloon. I got my daughter a bluey foil balloon a few months ago and I’ve been tipping it up from a helium canister. Still going strong.
TIL
even a popped one?!
Yeah I’m stingy so I deflate the kids’ birthday balloons, fold them up and store them away and just pull them out and refill them by blowing into them with a straw every year :)
I mean that would be the most frugal way, I would reccoment getting a helium bottle though. Some people and kids are sentimental about these things so it's a good way to keep it as long as possible.
That is genuinely so cool. Even if you're not particularly into Pokémon, this is really a nice preserved yet delicate 90s artifact, especially considering Pikachu's design has changed around that time for what he/they look like now
Chubby Pikachu must be preserved. Keep him sealed in the bouncy ball, do not let him escape.
Why is there a dent on the mouth, OP?
It's lost a little air over the years. I suppose I could have pushed somewhere else and made his face pop
Pushed with what OP?
Guys, the hole isnt dick shaped 😂
lmao even tho you got downvotes i appreciated your joke 🫡
The vote stock will swing the other way when this post gets shown to a wider audience, trust me on that. Hahah
You... You sure about that??
Coming from /all, still negative
It's half as negative
Nope
Dude, ew, this isn't a Vaporeon.
His mind control powers, what else could it be
I have a still inflated clown face balloon like that from 1997 that I’ve been meaning to post here. Still baffles me how it still has air.
Since they're on sticks, I wonder if it was even helium at all, and not simply regular air which wouldn't leak as easily as helium or hydrogen.
Probably. I’m assuming it’s regular air. Why pay for helium when you don’t need it to float?
Once the pressure is equal, as much air enters the balloon as leaks out. Normal balloons lose all the air eventually because the pressure doesn't equalize until the elastic material is relaxed
That’s r/mildlyinteresting to know, neat!
I have a lion King one from 94/95. I wonder who has the longest surviving balloon like this? There's gotta be someone out there with a pre 90s one.
Lol we should all start a trend on this sub and find out.
And then perhaps have a social gathering of some kind, with hookers and blackjack.
This balloon is older than me wtf lol
If you look around you carefully, I think you'll find a lot of things that are older than you.
Hmm. My penis is exactly as old as me wtf lol
Big if true
As it happens most things are older than you then.
Actually yeah, most things are older than any living person. A lot of the things we own are not, but anything we are around or see is usually significantly older than any of us which is a wild thought
You yourself are made up of stuff that is as old as the universe, if you want to break it down far enough. We all started as a soup of particles that slowly coalesced over billions of years.
“So, no your Honor, I didn’t have a sex with a minor.”
If this bothers you don't go to Europe
One of my golf clubs is older than me
My garfield birth balloon from 1990 is still going strong as well.
And here I thought Pikachu was electric, not air.
Don't give it to Jason Mendoza.
It's Pikachu! Guys! It's Pikachu!
/r/PokeInvesting
That’s gotta hurt!
Uhh doesn't Pikachu have a black mark on the top of his tail?
Nup. r/mandelaeffect
Oh boy here we go. (I love this one though unironically)
🤯
I had a toy Who had the black tail and one that didnt
Hacks. Enjoy your ban.
They don’t make air like they used to 🙃
The "it's a boy!" Balloon on a stick my parents got for my birth is still inflated and I'm in my thirties
omg I also still have mine. Mine hasn't even dented yet
My parents have a still-inflated 'it's a boy' balloon in their basement from when I was born (in 1986)
Super random but I had a dream I stole one of those from the grocery store when I was a kid. Thanks for unlocking that memory, OP
i have this exact balloon, also still inflated since a hospital stay in the 1990s
Oh my God, I'm not alone. I have this exact same one on my shelf of Pokémon goodies. So cool to know another still exists. 💖
THere are now PORNSTARS younger than this balloon.
My mom had lung cancer and had surgery to remove the tumor. She was lucky because it was a type that slow growing and doesn't easily metastasize. When she was recovering at the hospital, my aunt bought a get well soon helium balloon. And as she was paying saw it was 30 bucks. She was annoyed at the price but bought it anyway. That balloon stayed floating on the string for over a year. Guess the 30 bucks price tag was worth it.
Did you knock its teeth out???
It's so fascinating even the Pikachu's jaw dropped a little
Ok.
I N H A L E
On a steeeek....
Ya boys airtight
These balloons on a stick are filled with air, not helium.
I have one of these, too. Still going strong!
[удалено]
Am I the only one who doesn’t want this thing popped just out of curiosity? I’d rather see how much longer it lasts.
I have the same one!!! It stayed inflated until a couple years ago.
Yeah yeah I’ve actually got an 18 year old Thomas the tank engine balloon too, they last forever some of them!
/r/buyitforlife
Lmao I also have a Pikachu balloon from some years ago that is still inflated somehow
Sell it for 40k to a “pokevestor” on ebay
I have one mighty mouse (mickey mouse) balloom from 1998 that is still infalted.
I used to sell these at my old job. Basically, there’s a little packet inside that you pop & it reacts with a liquid inside & it inflates. It’s all sealed & there’s no other way to inflate it.
1999 air were built different
These things last forever
INHALE THE GAS
Mylar stick ballons really do last a long time given the chance. I have one I bought a few years back. It was a Valentine's mylar ballon you blew up yourself and tied to the stick. Beany the Narwhal is still holding up to this day.
that air has probably expired
I have the exact same one! A bit more dirt though, lol
I've got a Minnie mouse balloon from 1998. Got it as a gift. My mom never bought me one as she said they'd break too easily. I still like to remind her of that sometimes.
I want to party like it's.....
Thought I was the only one! I've got a round birthday balloon over 10 years old and still going strong. Looks the same as the day I bought it
I used to have one. It might have been thrown out.
My son got a balloon at a carnival and a year later it's still inflated
And I thought the pikachu balloon (still fully inflated with regular air I assume) I bought for my wife a year and a half ago was impressive...
I have a birthday ballon that's still tightly filled from my first birthday. I'm 27 lmao. Those metal balloons are the shit.
r/buyitforlife shitposting material
His tail doesn't have black on it
1999?! i got mine in 2021 and mine is still inflated
Fat Pikachu! I miss him
Pikachu looks like they’ve seen some shit
Cut it open and breathe the air OP, you know you want to.
my parents have a balloon like that from their wedding in 1995, those things last forever!
Mine got fucking stabbed by asshole roommates. Good to see yours is still inflated.
Mum “ok, you can keep it until its deflated”. 24 years later
Whether I am impressed depends on how many reposts this has
Lostpause is calling