They better tie the place down or we’ll lose it all.
Isn’t helium a greenhouse gas? ;-P
Good news for Tanzania. Red China investing there?
I hear the drillers sound real funny.
Scientist 1(to scientist 2 in high piched voice): I think we found it, mate!”
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How many balloons can if fill?
Tanzania will make sure it gets squandered.
Congressman Hank Johnson will be very pleased!
“One clue as to the extent of the helium reserve was when researchers found the people living in the area all had high pitched voices.”
I’m sure the Clintons and their cronies will have some way to make money off of this.
54 billion cubic feet...that fills 1.2 million mri scanners?
How much helium does one scanner take?
if they tap it, will we stop floating in space? :)
But, Wait! Thirty five years ago MOTHER EARTH NEWS groups were claiming that all natural helium would be exhausted in ten years!
IT WAS SETTLED SCIENCE!
Thank you so much for challenging me the other day. I don’t recall every hearing about “abiotic oil” specifically and certainly don’t recall reading about it. I do remember reading about the Russian Deep Bore project in Norway, IIRC some 20 years ago but what I read was just as they were beginning. So I am sure I didn’t just dream it up independently but it did resonate with me. I recall the Fischer Trop process from Organic Chem 40 years ago.
I did look up abiotic oil just now on Wikipedia and was shocked to find an article. Even more shocked to see Fischer Trop referenced. Interesting. I honestly had never seen any of that.
The reason I pinged you is I recall hearing or reading that Helium is always associated with petroleum but as I recall there is no theory to explain why. Thoughts?
Now, if they could just find a massive balloon deposit.
What? Rosie O’DoNuts and Micheal Moore both there ?
This would explain the spotted long neck horses seen here.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Giraffes_Arusha_Tanzania.jpg
Plus have you ever heard a Tanzanian speak? They sound so funny!
I got some helium in my mouth once but didn’t talk funny.
Like Slick Willy, I didn’t inhale.
