The world keeps running out of helium. There is now a race to prepare for the next shortage
And yet there is always enough for party balloons! 
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250331-why-helium-shortages-are-worrying-the-world
@amiserabilist you have motivated me to learn more. When you stop learning, you stop living
Three weeks ago, the scientific journal Nature @nature reported the discovery of the most energetic #neutrino ever observed. Its energy is 16,000 times greater than the strongest particle collisions created by the Large Hadron Collider and corresponds to 30 times the energy needed to press a computer key.
The neutrino was discovered in an underwater observatory in the Mediterranean, one of three neutrino detectors in water - two in the Mediterranean and one at Lake Baikal. At the geographic South Pole, there is the #IceCube neutrino detector under the ice. Other detectors exist underground in China, Italy, and Japan.
All these #detectors are not located on the Earth's surface because the Earth itself acts like a #telescope for neutrinos. Neutrinos are extremely light, electrically neutral particles that interact very weakly with matter and pass through the Earth. When they collide with atomic nuclei, charged particles are produced that move faster than light in water or ice, emitting blue light that is captured.
Water and ice are ideal media for detecting neutrinos because they provide large volumes to detect these particles while shielding against cosmic radiation and other disturbances. IceCube even utilizes 1 cubic kilometer of ice.
Neutrinos are the second most abundant particles in the universe, after photons, but are difficult to study because they interact so little with matter. Interestingly, dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95% of the universe, also interact very weakly with normal matter, while the remaining 5% consists of elements like #hydrogen and #helium, of which only 0.5% is visible matter (such as #stars).
Vor drei Wochen berichtete die Fachzeitschrift Nature @nature über die Entdeckung des energiereichsten jemals beobachteten #Neutrinos. Seine Energie ist 16.000 Mal größer als die stärksten #Teilchenkollisionen des Large Hadron Colliders und entspricht dem 30-fachen der Energie, die zum Drücken einer Computertaste nötig ist.
Das Neutrino wurde in einem #Unterwasserobservatorium im Mittelmeer entdeckt, eines von insgesamt drei Neutrino-Detektoren im Wasser – zwei im Mittelmeer und einer am Baikalsee. Am geografischen Südpol gibt es den Neutrino-Detektor #IceCube unter dem Eis. Weitere Detektoren existieren unterirdisch in China, Italien und Japan.
Alle diese Detektoren befinden sich nicht auf der Erdoberfläche, da die Erde selbst wie ein #Teleskop für Neutrinos wirkt. Neutrinos sind extrem leichte, elektrisch neutrale #Teilchen, die kaum mit Materie wechselwirken und durch die Erde hindurchgehen. Bei Kollisionen mit Atomkernen entstehen geladene Teilchen, die schneller als Licht in Wasser oder Eis bewegen und dabei blaues Licht erzeugen, das erfasst wird.
Wasser und Eis sind ideale Medien, um Neutrinos nachzuweisen, da sie große Volumen bieten, um diese Teilchen zu entdecken und gleichzeitig kosmische Strahlung und Störungen abzuschirmen. IceCube nutzt sogar 1 Kubikkilometer Eis.
Neutrinos sind die zweithäufigsten Teilchen im #Universum, nach Photonen, aber schwer zu verstehen, da sie so wenig mit Materie interagieren. Interessanterweise interagieren auch dunkle Materie und dunkle Energie, die 95 % des Universums ausmachen, kaum mit normaler Materie, während die restlichen 5 % aus Elementen wie #Wasserstoff und #Helium bestehen, wovon nur 0,5 % sichtbare #Materie (wie Sterne) sind.
Le fiasco du #Starliner devient un miracle pour les missiles #chinois : #Pékin transforme les fuites d’ #hélium en avancée stratégique
Day one of the Urbanglass, MAGIC install. It was quite fun driving a box truck from NJ to downtown Brooklyn yesterday. I forgot how much I missed Art handling. Some fun students from Texas drove the box truck up for a weekend NYC adventure.
We got a bunch done today mounting a bunch of the burst backer. There are about 40 animating transformers back there so we can blink the 80 or so tubes. Really excited it's actually able to make it to Brooklyn!
Headed to a show an tell party tonight at a friend's house tonight. I was gonna bring a Rainbow Sunrise Doodle that I pumped in the kiln, but it fell off the table and broke right before I went out the door so I grabbed this helium double rainbow instead. Now I get to make the rainbow sunrise again :) I could have baked it out longer anyways.
At a Time Like This (Your Magic Is Real) opens at Urbanglass, Brooklyn Feb 26, at 6pm
But TTN's LoRaWAN was always plagued with limited adoption in the US especially.
Enter the crypto bros....
A crypto startup used the basic business plan from TTN, multiplied the cost to deploy a device by like 5-10x and put an allbeit secure, but confusing AF layer of cryptocurrency around the whole thing and promised to share profits with routers err I mean "miners"
Naturally they hit the adoption jackpot but cost structure is f'd so its a non-starter
Universe Today: You’re Made of Carbon that Took a Journey into Intergalactic Space…
Carbon is one of the fundamental #elements inside our bodies. The first elements that appeared after the #universe formed 13.7 billion years ago was mostly #hydrogen and a little #helium. The #carbon in our bodies has been synthesised inside #stars in a process known as #nucleosynthesis... (Universe Today) #science #research
L' #instantanéité dure 232 #attosecondes : C'est le #temps nécessaire pour #intriquer #quantiquement deux électrons d'un #atome d' #hélium .
https://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/fondamental/particules/l-instantaneite-dure-232-attosecondes_182281
@alterelefant @Heidi As of now, we can see stuff like the #ExaDrive, a 100TB 3,5" SSD for #online - #archival storage.
As for the #NeoFloppy that thing could be made - I'm just not good enough layouting PCBs with the precision needed for #PCIe signalling...
That being said, it's inevitable that even WORM as a feature may be copied over.
Until there are #COTS solutions tho, LTO #Tape and other options will OFC remain dominant and relevant.
The utility of #blockchain is the reason for my conviction and belief in the future of #Crypto.
For a long time I've been watching World Mobile Coin #WMTX, a similar concept to #Helium #HNT, and the price has just hit a good level - so I've now made my first $WMTX purchase.
@RadioAzureus my core problem with these is that they use a very scarce resource (#Helium) that should've been used for more critical applications...
@perry_mitchell I'd avoid not just #SMR but all #Helium-filled drives as a matter of principle.
I mean, I know #trueNAS SCALE & #ProxMox doing #ZFS + #Ceph for #clustering and #redundancy...
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TIL: helium gas can brick Apple Watches and iPhones.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/helium-implicated-in-weird-iphone-malfunctions/
#Helium #iPhones #AppleProducts #Vulnerabilities
