Surprise for Snoopy and Charlie Brown after the Thanksgiving Day Parade! They’re going to 42nd Street where they’ll get a quick poke. After that, Linde is gonna suck the helium out of them, until they are so relaxed, they cannot stand up anymore. Is Linde just doing it for the money? Or for YOUR benefit? Find out here:
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
BillyTheMountain
The deal with that funny gas is no laughing matter.
We’re facing a Helium shortage… the US might run out of Helium in as little as 10 years.
It’s all fun and games now, sure, but when NASA can’t launch their rockets anymore, there are going to be a lot of sad people. Especially those trapped in the ISS.
Wow! We’ll be trapped here on Earth!!
Can you think of anything worse??!
When I run short on helium-3 or helium-4 I just make a batch with the left over deuterium we have laying around. I can make about 10,000 atoms per second. It takes 6 trillion years to make a gram but I’ve got nothing but time.
We had a grad student about ten years ago that I found in the shower washing an unrestrained A size gas cylinder. Those are the ones that are about shoulder high and would turn into a little rocket if they fell over and broke their valve off. They would easily zip through the cinder block walls of the bathroom. This made me a little nervous. I asked him what the hell he was doing that for. He said that his adviser had told him to wash all of the tritium off the surface. This made me a little more nervous. I asked him what made him think that tritium was on the surface of the bottle. He said it was a cylinder of helium-3 from a bomb lab at Los Alamos. Oh, I thought, that’s OK then. I told him he was probably holding a million dollars worth of helium-3 and he seemed startled. Later, when I spoke (harshly) with his adviser about the incident, I found out that it was only half a million dollars worth of helium-3 so there was nothing to worry about. It has probably appreciated substantially by now.
hoooooly sh*t… wow…