[Enlightened1]

Los Angeles is overdue on the Ring of Fire.

[ShadowAce]

Are the residents of LA now speaking in an octave above their normal voice?

[mothball]

Freepers and their families get out before it goes.

[pepsionice]

Just out of curiosity, and I’m sure there are some science-wiz guys out there...let’s say more helium was released. Impact on climate, weather, cancer-causing agents, or furry felines falling over?

[BigEdLB]

Newport Inglewood fault caused the 1933 Long Beach earthquake.

[GilesB]

“... a report from the U.S. Geological Survey has warned the risk of ‘the big one’ hitting California has increased dramatically.”

Illogical. The risk did not increase because of the discovery, only the perception of risk increased. The risk was exactly the same prior to the discovery as it was after.

[driftdiver]

Does this mean the earth is going to sink?

[left that other site]

Important helium Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNTK3RPCRGs

[Buttons12]

So, our most grievous fault is in California. Who is surprised?

[BitWielder1]

Someone call EPA before we all die of helium poisoning!
Yea I know helium is harmless, unless there is so much it replaces the oxygen you need, but to EPA, nothing is harmless.
They even tried to outlaw Argon, which is also a harmless inert gas which is s present in air almost by a full percent. 0.93% to be exact.
To the EPA, everything is bad, if nothing else it must cause Climate Change or something.

[teeman8r]

who’d a thunk ben jen splitting would be the second biggest rift to hit hollywood.

hmm

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[GreyFriar]

What we have to really fear is that the loss of helium will make the earth weight more and that the increased heaviness will cause it to leave its orbit and crash into the sun. Why? We all know that helium is lighter than air, thus it is used to keep blimps, baloons and dirigibles in the air, therefore it keeps the earth up in its orbit. Whe a blimp loses its helium, it crashes to the ground, therefore when the earth loses its inner helium it will crash into the sun.

[JennysCool]

News Flash! Caitlyn Jenner has just requested it be called “Shelium.” Thank you!

[Red Badger]

Do we know which isotope of Helium it is?
Most helium in the universe is helium-4, been around since the Big Bang.

Helium -4, is produced on Earth by alpha decay of heavier radioactive elements................

[Cold Heat]

Way overdue....

I would imagine that the tectonic stresses have been building for decades.

[longfellow]

Escape from la comes to mind.

[anymouse]

Those pointy-headed Californians should find a way to recover the leaking Helium. Most of the recoverable Helium is in North Texas (Amarillo) part of the Federal Helium Program.

"Helium 'Shortage' shows Big Government Solutions are full of Hot Air"

[Lazamataz]

Helium is in short supply. The person or company who figures out how to harness and collect this venting will be an eleventy-skadillionaire.