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Nitrogen has been the latest and greatest for tires.
Would filling them with helium make the vehicle lighter?!

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Helium is flammable, therefore treadmill or not, that plane bucking the 90 mph headwind would never make it to Havasu Springs, but their Bloody Mary's are still great.

Lol that's Hydrogen, Helium is an inert gas.

And yes it would be lighter.

It would also cost you a fuckload. A K bottle of nitrogen is about $40, a K bottle of Helium is about $500.

I use the stuff when welding heavy aluminum or copper. i about had a heart attack when i got the bottle replaced last time. There has been a helium shortage, and they were supposed to be building a new storage facility in TX somwhere.

The problem with Helium is once it is released it goes straight to the top of the atmosphere and dissapates into space, since it's an inert element it will not bond with other elements to form molecules that are stable or readily storable, So unlike most other elements on earth, we are actually losing the stuff to space and it truly never comes back.
 

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They put that shit in our truck tires and when it gets cold it sets off the tire sensors and says you have low tires
 

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The guy that does ceramic coatings said helium is the way to go and can bundle it in with the ceramic coating job.

He is running a covid special, where he includes CBD wheel dressing with all helium fills.
Does he usually have a high pitch voice? Or is that only after the job is done for the day? Asking for a friend.
 

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Lol that's Hydrogen, Helium is an inert gas.

And yes it would be lighter.

It would also cost you a fuckload. A K bottle of nitrogen is about $40, a K bottle of Helium is about $500.

I use the stuff when welding heavy aluminum or copper. i about had a heart attack when i got the bottle replaced last time. There has been a helium shortage, and they were supposed to be building a new storage facility in TX somwhere.

The problem with Helium is once it is released it goes straight to the top of the atmosphere and dissapates into space, since it's an inert element it will not bond with other elements to form molecules that are stable or readily storable, So unlike most other elements on earth, we are actually losing the stuff to space and it truly never comes back.

you know I never really gave that any thought until right now.. lol. But yes I could see that.. up into the outer atmosphere and bye bye..
 

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I always tell the new laborers that they should drain the compressor before loading it up on the truck. "it'll be a 120lbs lighter" 🤣

it would be lighter with it empty than when it’s filled.. ??
 

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it would be lighter with it empty than when it’s filled.. ??
It's a joke on the "new guy" Dave. 🤣We also used to send an idiot we were tired of dealing with down to the truck to grab the "Green handled board stretcher" 👍😉🤣
 

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What weighs more...

A pound of feathers? Or a pound of rocks?

Is that in earth’s gravity, on the moon reduced gravitation or weightlessness of space?
 

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Lol that's Hydrogen, Helium is an inert gas.

And yes it would be lighter.

It would also cost you a fuckload. A K bottle of nitrogen is about $40, a K bottle of Helium is about $500.

I use the stuff when welding heavy aluminum or copper. i about had a heart attack when i got the bottle replaced last time. There has been a helium shortage, and they were supposed to be building a new storage facility in TX somwhere.

The problem with Helium is once it is released it goes straight to the top of the atmosphere and dissapates into space, since it's an inert element it will not bond with other elements to form molecules that are stable or readily storable, So unlike most other elements on earth, we are actually losing the stuff to space and it truly never comes back.
Yes, and every time I see someone fill a ballon with it, I just shake my head. It’s a finite resource, and one of the few things on earth I’d actually like to see more regulations on. Funny enough, with the Covid shutdown helium is no longer being “rationed” but the prices sure haven’t gone down. They are starting to store excesses again.
 

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Would the tires then make a funny noise when the pressure was lowered? 🤡
 

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Are we allowed to change temperature? :)

Well...

If you drop two different sacks of rocks...

From fifty feet in the air....

Into fifty feet of water...

But...

One body of water is 80 degrees...

And the other is 28 degrees...

Which body of water, will allow the pound of rocks, will get to the bottom first?

🤔
 
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Well...

If you drop two different pounds of rocks...

From fifty feet in the air....

Into fifty feet of water...

But...

One body of water is 80 degrees...

And the other is 28 degrees...

Which body of water, will allow the pound of rocks, will get to the bottom first?

🤔

Hmmmm

Well, We all know the speed of sound is faster in seawater than in air so ..............
 

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Well...

If you drop two different pounds of rocks...

From fifty feet in the air....

Into fifty feet of water...

But...

One body of water is 80 degrees...

And the other is 28 degrees...

Which body of water, will allow the pound of rocks, will get to the bottom first?

🤔
It depends on the Henway.
 

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Yes, and every time I see someone fill a ballon with it, I just shake my head. It’s a finite resource, and one of the few things on earth I’d actually like to see more regulations on. Funny enough, with the Covid shutdown helium is no longer being “rationed” but the prices sure haven’t gone down. They are starting to store excesses again.

Yes and no. The production of helium occurs naturally on earth via nuclear decay from stuff like uranium.

Oh and also from H bombs!
 

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Well...

If you drop two different pounds of rocks...

From fifty feet in the air....

Into fifty feet of water...

But...

One body of water is 80 degrees...

And the other is 28 degrees...

Which body of water, will allow the pound of rocks, will get to the bottom first?

🤔
Fahrenheit or Celsius?
 

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If an attractive woman is naked in a bed and you can only go half the distance each time you go closer, will you ever get there?
 

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I don't know about being lighter but I use helium in my truck tires because they really make the mud terrain tread sound better, more of a higher pitch. 👍
 

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Well...

If you drop two different sacks of rocks...

From fifty feet in the air....

Into fifty feet of water...

But...

One body of water is 80 degrees...

And the other is 28 degrees...

Which body of water, will allow the pound of rocks, will get to the bottom first?

🤔

Nobody???
 

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Nobody???
Since fresh water freezes at 32 degrees and salt water freezes at 28.4 degrees I'll go with the 80 degree water.




Joe does not qualify the state of the water in the body of water below freezing. Water can be solid at 28 degrees F but it can also remain a liquid up to -55 F.

Warm water is however less dense and as a result has less friction.

Joe does not state if there is a difference in the weight of the two bags of rocks nor does he say if one bag has rocks with neutral buoyancy and one does not?

So I am going with not enough data to answer unequivocally. :)
 
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