Teabonics. A rich and emerging field.
Hears’ hopoing taht FOXnews wil kuntinue to keep us infromed.
Day: April 2, 2010
Optimistically assuming that demand for [helium] continues to grow only a few percent each year, and that the entirety of the globe’s remaining natural gas reserves will be processed for their helium, the NRC report estimates there will only be enough to last another 40 years.
Lee Billings, writing for Seed.
Articles like this make me think we are going to be back to living in caves and trading hides along the riverfront inside of a century. It sounds like apocalyptic science fiction, but perhaps there is a narrow window of opportunity for any global civilization to either figure out how to efficiently get off its particular rock (and access vastly greater industrial resources that (hopefully) reside nearby) or be stuck there, forever.
Seems like we’re deep down in the slowness more every day.
Articles like this make me think we are going to be back to living in caves and trading hides along the riverfront inside of a century. It sounds like apocalyptic science fiction, but perhaps there is a narrow window of opportunity for any global civilization to either figure out how to efficiently get off its particular rock (and access vastly greater industrial resources that (hopefully) reside nearby) or be stuck there, forever.
Seems like we’re deep down in the slowness more every day.
Lemkin 