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pxib
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Doom and gloom:Professor Richardson warned the gas is not cheap because the supply is inexhaustible, but because of the Helium Privatisation Act passed in 1996 by the US Congress. The Act required the helium stores held underground near Amarillo in Texas to be sold off at a fixed rate by 2015 regardless of the market value, to pay off the original cost of the reserve. The Amarillo storage facility holds around half the Earth's stocks of helium: around a billion cubic meters of the gas. The US currently supplies around 80 percent of the world's helium supplies.
Richardson said it has taken 4.7 billion years for the Earth to accumulate our helium reserves, which we will have exhausted within about a hundred years of the US's National Helium Reserve having been established in 1925. The reserve is a collection of disused underground mines, pipes and vats extending over 300 km from north of Amarillo into Kansas. He warned that when helium is released to the atmosphere, in helium balloons for example, it is lost forever.
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Xuri
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몇살이세욬ㅋ 몇살이 몇살 몇살이세욬ㅋ!!!!!1!
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Soooo... we should start stockpiling? I've never needed helium before today, but now I'm suddenly starting to crave it. Where can I buy some?
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Abagadro
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Get in on the ground floor of the helium bubble now.
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It's definitely great for parties.
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Teleku
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Get in on the ground floor of the helium bubble now.
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Merusk
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No Helium means no orenge-red Neon signs or arc welding. This is not very uplifting.
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Yegolev
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Helium will only go up I tell you. Up!
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Chimpy
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No Helium means no orenge-red Neon signs or arc welding. This is not very uplifting.
The welding part is not really true. Helium is used for a few TIG processes that require higher heat input and higher welding speeds than with Argon on some metals. Some stainless steel and aluminum processes will be affected, but almost all carbon steel welding will continue to be just fine with Argon or Argon+CO2 mixes. |
'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Ard
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You take your SCIENCE and your FACTS and go find some other thread, mister. There is only room for panic and puns here.
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Chimpy
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You take your SCIENCE and your FACTS and go find some other thread, mister. There is only room for panic and puns here.
O sorry. I will say, I am reading this thread imagining everyone talking with a mouthful of helium. YOU ALL SOUND LIKE MEESES. |
'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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IainC
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Why can't we just go to the sun and get more?
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Pagz
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I AM GOING TO WRESTLE THIS BEAR WITH MY BARE HANDS!
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Why can't we just go to the sun and get more?
It shouldn't be too hard to go there and just scoop some up yeah? |
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Tebonas
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Mosesandstick
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I'm not the only one who imagined Pxib saying the thread topic in a really high pitched voice right?
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IainC
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Why can't we just go to the sun and get more?
It shouldn't be too hard to go there and just scoop some up yeah? As long as you go at night so you don't get burnt up. |
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull? Now you have your answer, Doc. |
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Lantyssa
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All of your jokes about this serious matter go over like a lead balloon.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Xuri
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몇살이세욬ㅋ 몇살이 몇살 몇살이세욬ㅋ!!!!!1!
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Oh noes. A thought just struck me: If all the helium on our planet is exhausted, then there will be nothing left holding it up!!!!11one  |
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IainC
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All of your jokes about this serious matter go over like a lead balloon.
H e started it.... |
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tgr
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All of your jokes about this serious matter go over like a lead balloon.
H e started it.... Stop arguing or I'm going to have to turn this gas around! |
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Engels
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ya'll are a gas. really.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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I find this thread very uplifting.
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Lakov_Sanite
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All these jokes are making it hard to breathe.
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Lantyssa
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ya'll are a gas. really.
Y'all. Y ou all. Try not to type like y'all are high. |
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Bzalthek
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"Use the Soy Sauce, Luke!" WHOM, ZASH, CLISH CLASH! "Umeboshi Kenobi!! NOOO!!!"
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Sometimes I worry about you people.
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Lantyssa
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How noble of you to be concerned about us.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Engels
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How noble of you to be concerned about us.
You made my inert child cry. |
I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Ard
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I... I love you guys  Please don't ever float away on me. |
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Segoris
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I think you're full of hot air and just say that to all the forums.
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taolurker
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You know it's ballooning out of control when things are repeated.
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I used to write for extinct gaming sites
details available here (unused blog about page)
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RhyssaFireheart
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Sometimes I worry about you people.
Only sometimes? (sorry, no gas jokes to be had here). |
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Lantyssa
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Did you run out?
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Rasix
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I am the harbinger of your doom!
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Stop making light of the situation.
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