Helium Shortage has ended ...

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Go wash your mouth out with soap

 

[Miyaru]

Interesting: the article is using metric units.

 

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Interesting: the article is using metric units

 

[AdamSa]

Local prices in Malta(Europe) are still ~5c per litre (~1.40 Euro per cubic feet for those metrically challenged)...and that is buying it in large 45 litre tanks not as a fill from a dive shop. Hardly the prices we had prior to the shortage.

 

[Angelo Farina]

Interesting: the article is using metric units.

That's quite obvious. Physics Today is a journal of high scientific level, attempting to divulgate the latest research topics also to not-scientists.
Scientific journals require that all papers submitted employ SI units since at least 20 years....
As a scientist, I really cannot understand why US does not officially adhere to the SI units.

 

[RyanT]

As a scientist, I really cannot understand why US does not officially adhere to the SI units.

Even as an American Scientist, it still baffles me that we're not metric.

 

[JohnN]

That's quite obvious. Physics Today is a journal of high scientific level, attempting to divulgate the latest research topics also to not-scientists.
Scientific journals require that all papers submitted employ SI units since at least 20 years....
As a scientist, I really cannot understand why US does not officially adhere to the SI units.

You have a problem with furlongs per fortnight?

 

[PfcAJ]

Even as an American Scientist, it still baffles me that we're not metric.

Screw metric. That’s why.

 

[RyanT]

@JohnN and @PfcAJ, let's get down to brass tacks...

I'm more concerned about how much beer I'm getting when I order a pint. Is it an imperial pint (568 ml), or a liquid pint (473 ml), or a dry pint (551 ml)? Each of these pints is 1/8 a gallon, but which gallon are we talking about? Are we ordering a fraction of an imperial, US or dry gallon? On the other hand, if you order a 0.5 liter beer, you know what you are getting!

 

[PfcAJ]

@JohnN and @PfcAJ, let's get down to brass tacks...

I'm more concerned about how much beer I'm getting when I order a pint. Is it an imperial pint (568 ml), or a liquid pint (473 ml), or a dry pint (551 ml)? Each of these pints is 1/8 a gallon, but which gallon are we talking about? Are we ordering a fraction of an imperial, US or dry gallon? On the other hand, if you order a 0.5 liter beer, you know what you are getting!

Just drink it ya sissy.