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- WillAdamsIs it wrong that I was hoping for something along the lines of:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-would-we-know...except where they are noting how helium is being allowed to escape and not being captured as was previously done by the now shut down U.S. National Helium Reserve.
- mapsedgeOnly 880,000 years at our current average speed. Mind blowing, that.
- westurnerThere is a market shortage of helium but shouldn't be:There's also helium in methane, but unfortunately few places crack out the helium from natural gas.TIL Helium kills Kudzu and powers fusion power plants.
- ck2wow 50 light years is indeed "nearby" in relative termsnearly 6x the size of earth though, good luck trying to launch a probe off that surfaceNASA has a neat "exoplanet catalog" which is about to leap in size next few years with new telescopes and techniques* https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/lhs-1140-b/
- teerayRocky, you say question?