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It might be better to just get another gerbil.
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It doesn't do anything? Plants need nitrogen to grow. |
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Yeah, but with all this helium and global warming isn't there a good chance that the helium will spontaniously fuse and turn the earth into a secondary star? |
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Doesn't do anything!? Plants use nitrogen. It keeps the conentration of oxygen at a level animals & humans are designed for (look up partial pressure laws). Since it makes up 70% of the atmosphere, the planet wouldn't have hardly any shielding left ifyou took it away. This change in volume would drastically change weather patterns and probably kill us all. |
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But other than that, I guess it's no biggie. By the way, how were you planning on extracting all the nitrogen? |
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Massive continual electric storms? |
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Bonus for scuba divers. The substitution of helium for nitrogen in breathing mixtures for divers means that a smaller amount of gas dissolves in the diver’s blood ( due to lower solubility ) and moderates the risk of “bends.” |
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Putting helium into the atmosphere would never work. There's a reason that the Earth has almost no helium on it, even though helium is one of the most abundant elements in the universe: gravity. The Earth's gravity isn't strong enough to hold helium down. The only helium found on Earth is underground, usually in methane deposits. Otherwise it just floats out of the atmosphere. |
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