“A dream. It’s perfect”: Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America::For a century, the U.S. Government-owned the largest helium reserve in the country, but the biggest exporters now are in Russia, Qatar and Tanzania. With this new discovery, Minnesota could be joining that list.

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    11 months ago

    Ah yes, we’re wasting helium, so finding more isn’t a good thing. Of course. 🙄

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      11 months ago

      Yeah it’ll hopefully see us through to when we’re collecting it in space - there’s plenty up there and they’ve already come up with some good ways of collecting it

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      11 months ago

      Imagine we found out climate change predictions were a decade early, so we kept pace and didn’t use the extra time to try and fix it…

      It’s not bad news that we got another decade, but it doesn’t matter that much in the long run if we still don’t fix the underlying issue

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        11 months ago

        I don’t disagree with your general point. But finding a new source of Helium, regardless of the rate of use, is a good thing.

        That aside – are you saying Helium is related to climate change? Curious to know how, if so.