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A Ton of Helium!
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I can't find the link I read originally (it was around Valentine's Day), but here's one from about 6 months ago. The shortage apparently comes and goes.Uh...do you have a link to that or something? I can't believe it without a link.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/11/america/NA_GEN_US_Helium_Shortage.php
...Yes, mpw, I would like to be your girlfriend based solely on your awesome boots!
PM me a couple of pics and we'll see what I can do
Surely there's just as much helium around as there ever has been? Hard to see how we can have a shortage of something so unreactive (even if it is not exactly abundant on Earth)
edit: duh, just saw your link... a supply shortage. well okay then, I suppose...
Surely there's just as much helium around as there ever has been? Hard to see how we can have a shortage of something so unreactive (even if it is not exactly abundant on Earth)
edit: duh, just saw your link... a supply shortage. well okay then, I suppose...
There's all kinds of oxygen around too, and fresh water. It's just corralling the little beggars and putting a useable amount of them into a bottle in purified form that's the tough bit.
Edit: Actually, I would disagree; you're assuming that the Earth is a closed system, which is workable for many hypotheses, but when you release Helium from terrestrial deposits, it, well, rises... To the top of the stratosphere where my guess it that the light gasses are lost into space disproportionately more than heavier gasses. Is there anyone here has some definitive info on this?
Ok then - how about a ton of fun?? I have had that before, but I don't remember it weighing that much.
A tun of wine is equal to a ton of fun
tun (tŭn)
n.
A large cask for liquids, especially wine.
A measure of liquid capacity, especially one equivalent to approximately 252 gallons (954 liters).
hey, that IS 2,000 pounds
here it got defined at 500 grams/ half a kilogram in the 19th century to finally get rid of all the confusion since everybody was using a different pound which simply crippled trade
berlin ? 467 grams
nürnberg ? 510 grams
pharmacy pound? 357 grams
etc.
thank god the pound and inch will never return
The Americans are still using all of these stupid units.
Hell they still use the BTU which i would've thought that America the country that invented everything would not want to use the BRITISH thermal unit, which incidentally we gave up long ago.
Nothing wrong with feet and inches. We still use a complete mixture over here, anyway.
There's nothing wrong with feet or inches if you don't measure things.
It only becomes an issue when you start measuring things.
It only becomes an issue when you start measuring things.
I'm measuring things all the time. Our tape measures are metric on one edge, imperial on the other: I use whichever side has a unit closest to the mark.
untill you have to do calculations between volumes,lengths or to top it of weights or liquids
but hey you are british i don't expect you to do adhere to international standards and such ... you are kinda like switzerland who simply _have to_ do everything different ...
but i have to agree that it's funny how the americans still use the "imperial system"
Being a scientist, I have learned to bounce between units, espically for weights, volumes, and short lengths. I have a great deal of difficulty using metric measurements for large distances and areas.
It is amazing how entrenched imperial measurements are in our culture, espically in agriculture and land surveying. Our rural roads, property lines, and bounderies are all based on acres, miles, rods, and other imperial measurements.
As an engineer, let me tell you that the imperial system is horrid. It is so bad that even in the United States the engineering schools teach using metric with only enough imperial so that we can do the conversions if we have to.
The whole lb-force lb-mass thing and how it is never specified which you are using is enough for me to consider any calculations done in imperial unreliable.
The whole lb-force lb-mass thing and how it is never specified which you are using is enough for me to consider any calculations done in imperial unreliable.