
The World is Losing An Entire Element
#1
Posted October 29, 2012 - 03:47 PM

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Posted October 29, 2012 - 03:52 PM

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Posted October 29, 2012 - 08:24 PM

#4
Posted October 29, 2012 - 08:29 PM

It's a by-product of a natural process. Considering the Earth is like 4.6 billion years old and there's only enough to have lasted us like 100 years, it's created very slowly.Wait, how did we get it in the first place? I know it isn't a man made element, so did we somehow pull it out of the air?
There is no way of manufacturing it artificially, and practically all of the world's reserves have been derived as a by-product from the extraction of natural gas, mostly in the giant oil- and gasfields of the American South-west, which historically have had the highest helium concentrations.
#5
Posted October 29, 2012 - 10:19 PM

Gosh, that's even worse than oil, and we have alternatives to oil!It's a by-product of a natural process. Considering the Earth is like 4.6 billion years old and there's only enough to have lasted us like 100 years, it's created very slowly.
What the heck are we doing wasting all this helium on balloons and making our voice sound funny?
#6
Posted October 29, 2012 - 10:30 PM

That sentence is a lot funnier to me because your avatar is Pee Wee Herman.What the heck are we doing wasting all this helium on balloons and making our voice sound funny?
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