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If the bubbles in jiffy bags were filled with helium would postage costs be less?
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Dalek Dave wrote: There are other gases available that can fill balloons.
Well, I think that avoiding ammonia, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide is probably a good idea, but nitrogen is reasonably plentiful.
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Surely not...Liquid Nitrogen 
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Balloons filled with that would certainly be very useful for eradicating clowns.
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Gasses with a molar mass of less then ten escapes the gravitational pull of the earth.
The tiny amount of Helium there is, has been trapped under a rock layer.
This tiny amount has mostly been used for party balloons. 
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Abraham Lincoln
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One nice consequence of this is that, when you do the funny voice thing with helium, you breath effectively goes into space.
I heard this on the Home Service last week.
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Sadly it's only the helium that escapes the earth, the methyl mercaptan, 3-mercapto-3-methylbutylformate and allyl methyl sulphide will remain in your vicinity.
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Dalek Dave wrote: There are other gases available that can fill balloons.
(although none as much fun when inhaled).
Hydrogen is quite radical, especially if you have candles in the room.
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If I think back to a thing with Dara O'Brien (apologies for poor spelling) when it is released it's mass is not enough to prevent it leaving the Earth and wander into outer space. Also as a noble gas its in air (is it not?) so is it a case of refining it from the air, or the source if the helium in the air is replaced? <<foot in="" mouth="">> I think the above poster covers it<>
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And a few years in the future all the gasses usable for balloons Argon, eh?
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."
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You will soon be appearing at the London Palladium!
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Dalek Dave wrote: You will soon be appearing at the London Palladium!
... Plummeting in from a great height, with a lead balloon like that.
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well, we could fill it with the most common element in the universe and make them go bang  .
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Helium is a by product of a Fusion Reaction so once we crack that it shouldn't be a problem.
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Second most common in the universe, but not on a small rocky planet like ours: with a molecular mass of 4 it escapes from the atmosphere, and being a noble gas it doesn't form minable compounds.
I thought we were only running out of helium-3, though?
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We've had cats a long time - since I was a child, pretty much.
And over the years we have had predators and slightly-less-predators felines.
Over the years they have brought home (alive and / or dead):
Mice.
Voles.
Moles.
Rats.
Birds, from teeny weeny Tits to Crows and Ravens.
Goldfish.
Koi.
Leaves (But in her defense, they were extremely viscous leaves, that could kill a cat with one bite. Honest.)
Squirrels.
Frogs.
Half a Goose.
Frozen Chicken portions (Don't ask)
Kittens.
One small dog (and it wasn't very happy)
But this is a first: one small Pipistrelle bat, slightly deceased. 
I do hope this isn't going to be a habit...I like bats.
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I would suggest that the bat would have been near death or injured before the cat got it.
As an insectivorous bat it uses echolocation and would have detected the threat of the cat.
(They are a very timid creature and would avoid threats at all costs).
If it is a common pipistrelle then do not worry too much, for they are very common.
However, your cat has broken the law and needs to be punished.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Half a Goose.
Frozen Chicken portions (Don't ask)
You want to work with him on those skills.
Lesson 1: Identifying the neighbour's kitchen.
Lesson 2: Opening the fridge.
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No chance!
We had a cat (he died about 3 years ago) who could open the fridge at will. You'd be sitting there watching telly, and the cat would come through with a pack of bacon in his mouth...I wouldn't have minded quite so much if he'd learned to shut the fridge afterwards.
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OriginalGriff wrote: the cat would come through with a pack of bacon in his mouth
Man, that cat had taste!
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OriginalGriff wrote: they were extremely viscous leaves
Would they be measured in Pascal Seconds, Stokes, or Reyn? Dynamic or kinematic? 
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Sort of a Bat Into Hell
speramus in juniperus
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A friend of mine was once the slave of a twelwe kg heavy male neutered cat.
He was neutered when he was a grownup so he didn't get fat, just big. And he didn't change behaviour just because he didn't have any balls so all owner of female cats in the radius of two miles were happy to not have any offspring.
One evening when I was visiting we heard a long and nasty cat fight and fifteen minutes after the fight ended this quite beaten up cat pulled a pretty large but very dead fox through the cat flap. 
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