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"A dream. It's perfect": Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America
"A dream. It's perfect": Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America
What does any of that have to do with you correcting me without doing even a modicum of research or having any familiarity with the topic?
The fuck is wrong with people here...
"A dream. It's perfect": Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America
No, no it could not.
The stuff used in balloons isn't pure enough to be used for cryogenic purposes, which is what people really want it for.
And before you ask purifying it is really difficult.
"A dream. It's perfect": Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America
... No, but I'd sure trust them to describe oil drilling to me.
Christ, Lemmy sucks ass
"A dream. It's perfect": Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America
You're incorrect, but at least you're incorrect confidently, I guess.
Here's a link where a helium extractor explains the process:
https://rockymountainair.com/blog/how-is-helium-extracted/
It's a lot more complicated than "let it sit in a tank, bro. Trust me, bro".
"A dream. It's perfect": Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America
The highest grade helium is grade 6, grade 4.7 gets used for cryogenic purposes. Balloon helium is grade 4.
Tommy's dad didn't steal grade 6 helium from a research lab for kid's birthday party.
Here's a link to a gas supplier's website with a chart: https://www.westairgases.com/blog/exploring-the-most-essential-and-underappreciated-uses-for-helium
"A dream. It's perfect": Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America
The helium used for balloons is of low purity.
The shortages you hear about are of pure or near pure helium. The stuff going into the balloons at Tommy's birthday party isn't the same thing used to cool superconductors.
EDIT: And I used to think Reddit was full of ignorant jackasses ...
For real. I've started to replace "AI" with "program" or "software" in my head every time I read a headline.
Ok, trolling for sure.
There's no way a person could be literate and have access to the Internet and be that ignorant.
It really, really isn't common.
Here's an NBC report from two years ago: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/breaking-point-sf-suffers-highest-rate-of-car-break-ins-compared-to-atlanta-dc-dallas-la/2731757/
The TL;DR is that the top cities in terms of car break-ins (per 1,000 people) are:
San Francisco - 19.8 Seattle - 19.7 Atlanta - 12.9 D.C. - 10.4 Dallas - 7.8 Houston - 7.5 L.A. - 6.0
That shit ain't normal. Outside of San Francisco and apparently Seattle. The whole rest of the country doesn't have this problem.
What the actual fuck are you talking about? There is no other city in this nation where people leave their cars open. Not a single one.
You're either trolling or so disconnected from reality it's terrifying.
On the off chance you're just ignorant this is your official notice: the way you live is not normal.
Amen. Some of the shit I see here...