'Fucking stop using fucking helium you fucking cunts'.
Important festive message from Dr Peter Wothers, a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a University of Cambridge chemist.
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But what about girls cosplaying as the house from Up?
thingsthatmakeyouhappy.com/2011/05/04/myeongbeom-kim/
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$$$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE $$$$$$$$, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 10:10,
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Scientist have been saying this for years
But its clearly more important for young Chuck and Brad to get their fat chubby paws on a f*cking balloon than to safeguard the future of the species.
Edit: I'm not a green hippie, I just don't like seeing fat kids with balloons.
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DinivanX Too old for my own good, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 10:11,
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I bloody LOVE the christmas lectures.
*starts to feel everso-slightly less bah-humbug*
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Tab Hunter You used to call me sadness...., Tue 11 Dec 2012, 10:20,
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...apart from X factor OF COURSE
I love [insert name here]- her mum died of cancer, so sang a sad song.
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Tab Hunter You used to call me sadness...., Tue 11 Dec 2012, 10:30,
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She's so strong.
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$$$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE $$$$$$$$, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 10:31,
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On at the cinema near here soon, you being serious?
I may go and watch it.
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$$$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE $$$$$$$$, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 10:45,
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I do genuinely enjoy it although I think I enjoy it because I always watch it with family or mates.
You don't need to shell out on a cinema ticket though. It's usually repeated ad infinitum by Channel4/E4/More4/Film4. Just cycle through the channels and you'll hit it before you've gone through twice.
It's good, silly fun.
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Pig Bodine., Tue 11 Dec 2012, 10:51,
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Hmmmm....could be tempted by that.
No TV so cinema it is, It's A Wonderful Life is on soon too, classic.
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Dawn Of The Bread $$$$$$$$ E-THUG 4 LIFE $$$$$$$$, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 11:01,
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Ah, but it stars that american cunt who I find (genuinely) unwatchable.
/cannot be arsed to google his name
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Tab Hunter You used to call me sadness...., Tue 11 Dec 2012, 10:50,
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James Caan has been in a lot of good stuff.
Check out The Godfather and Dogville.
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Pig Bodine., Tue 11 Dec 2012, 10:54,
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Keep buying it
I work in the helium business and I'm making cold hard cash.
(, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 10:41, Reply)
The problem is not that we use too much of it
It's that the USA is the only country that can produce it cheaply and since that means they don't make any money off it they've committed to selling off their stockpiles at rock-bottom prices to drive up the price of any remaining helium. Essentially, the market value of a balloon of helium should be around $150, given how much we need it, but the Shermans' economic policies mean that we're wasting it all doing silly voices and all that
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emvee is the best thing about being British, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 10:49,
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And miss out on singing 'Annie's Song' in the style of Pinky and Perky?
That's a tough decision, and one I can't make lightly.
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Captain Howdy voodoo bullshit, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 10:51,
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they should start using hydrogen in kids balloons instead
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mutated monty, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 10:52,
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Or fill the party rooms with florine,
so normal balloons float.
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Tab Hunter You used to call me sadness...., Tue 11 Dec 2012, 10:55,
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children should be content
to drag a limp balloon around behind them, all this hanging in the air bullshit gives them a ridiculous sense of ambition.
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He says we let it float off into space
That isn't correct is it? It is lighter than air, but heavier than a vacuum. Doesn't it stick around in the upper atmosphere? We can get it later, when we need it, and have longer ladders than we do now.
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TheSundaeLunch, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 11:27,
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"Heavier"?
Sadly not on a planet with Earth's mass.
Hydrogen & Helium are able to escape the atmosphere...
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Tab Hunter You used to call me sadness...., Tue 11 Dec 2012, 11:36,
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Kepp them in your sex dungeon
they'll never escape then.
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Fadgebadger /links pedantic bellend, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 11:40,
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I did not
know that. I presumed anything with a mass is heavier than anything without one, and would therefore be trapped.
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TheSundaeLunch, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 11:41,
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??? I don't understand... what hasn't got mass?
I think planets the size of Jupiter are massive enough to prevent hydrogen & helium escaping.
Also, *checks wikipedia* how close you are to a star affects it too: so the gas molecules will be more energetic.
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Tab Hunter You used to call me sadness...., Tue 11 Dec 2012, 12:00,
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I'm not arguing!
I thought a molecule of helium was, by it's very existance, heavier than the vacuum of space and would therefore be trapped by gravity at some height. I'm no expert and if you say I'm wrong, I'm wrong.
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TheSundaeLunch, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 12:06,
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I'm not arguing either!
:)
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Tab Hunter You used to call me sadness...., Tue 11 Dec 2012, 12:08,
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I think it gets enough escape velocity to get away
Perhaps at the height at which it stops rising up through the stuffmospheres the gravity is insufficient to keep it in...
...maybe. But as you say, bigger ladders!
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Extinct Jesus Dossier BRB...gotta penis..., Tue 11 Dec 2012, 12:12,
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If gravity worked like that we'd be permanently stuck to anything more massive than ourselves.
Gravity is very, very weak.
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Mu Dinofiddler, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 12:44,
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My sofa
Has a huge gravitational pull. Explain that.
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TheSundaeLunch, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 12:56,
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It is actually,
and so is my arse, so I guess me sitting around all day is down to SCIENCE.
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TheSundaeLunch, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 13:41,
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