• Kiwi_fella@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I have it on good authority there is a 5th element. I saw it in a documentary. It’s … perfect.

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      Remembered this film this morning while listening to Tricky, and weird it is that Tricky is in it (and Lee Evans!). It’s like Eurotrash: The Movie with Bruno The Singing Bartender there as a thin veneer of Hollywood respectability.

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    3 days ago

    We also know elements can’t change to a different element through any kind of reaction or anything that would be absurd. I’m tired of these woke scientists.

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    Oh yes, the statistical mindset. Similarly, one could argue that for large integers, statistically there is no prime numbers.

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    It is UNUSUAL for an element to not be either hydrogen or helium. There is nothing wrong with it. It is simultaneously totally OK, an ABSOLUTE MINORITY position, and notably UNUSUAL considering statistical evaluation.

    You can ascribe whatever meaning to that you want, but it is not a statistically typical position to be an element that is not hydrogen, not helium, and… Well… It’s also pretty unusual to have extra neutrons or something and be BETWEEN hydrogen and helium.

    Again, this is TOTALLY FINE. And it is accurate in other hypothetical contexts which are in no way being referenced here. These group sizes are still, of course, in no way the same.

    It’s not super uncommon to change from hydrogen to helium, but in other contexts… Yes it is. Still totally fine.

    Everybody is just getting along the best he/she/they can, but PEOPLE have rights, we don’t need to argue for rights by common-washing. It ain’t common.

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        I read that if it wasn’t for the US dumping it’s strategic helium supply, the price of a party balloon would be $50. Yes, Helium 3 gets attention for Fusion research but regular Helium is used heavily in imaging equipment like MRI’s. The Large Hadron Collider needs 130 metric tons of the stuff.

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          Helium is one of those things I don’t really care about. I could tell you I never liked balloons because of their impact on the environment, and that would be true, especially with ones getting released into the air. However I also have a really selfish reason, and that was cleaning them up. I never really liked water balloons for the same reasons, and I’m so happy I haven’t been around much confetti.

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        helium3 is getting low, right? I had heard we’re looking at mining operations on the moon, but I think that would be a very bad idea…

        nothing like unchecked capitalism in space.

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          There’s virtually no helium 3 on Earth, but that’s not because we’re using it up, it’s because there was essentially never any really to begin with.

          The moon has helium 3 on its surface so naturally that leads to the idea of mining the moon for the material. But there are no actual serious plans to do so, for one thing nobody knows how you would actually go about doing that. Besides there’s practically no market for it, it’s used in some fusion research but only a tiny quantity is required and that can be supplied with domestic supplies more or less forever, since it’s possible to manufacture it from normal helium.

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          I think there was a this movie 🤔 about helium 3 🤔 and other stuff on the moon 🤔🤔

          Ohhh, yea

          It was Nazis 😂

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          Honestly we’re probably way too late to stop that from happening. That’s been part of Elon’s plans for a long time. Battery power, robot tech, space technology. And Elon isn’t the only player eyeing what’s out there.

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          By the time we figure out something better than capitalism will have a few more solar systems to screw up on the new thing too.

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    Science is for the birds

    And birds aren’t real

    Since birds aren’t real they are government spying devices

    Since birds are government spying devices the government is spying on all of us

    Since the government likes watching us they are voyeurs

    Some trans people are also voyeurs

    Voyeurism is diagnosed using science

    Therefore trans people are birds

    Shove that in and out of your logic hole until some kind of fluid sprays out

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        If you follow the very perfect logic even further you’ll realize that trans people are actually government spying devices. Top and bottom surgery is actually just to replace things with cameras.

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      I couldn’t really follow along with your logic maze, but I agree with you’re final point… which I think is,

      Public transit is faster than birds.

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        A well reasoned and thoroughly salient, and logical, addition to my argument.

        This person logics.