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Submission + - Researchers find abundance of Helium in Baffin Island in Canada (nature.com)

thepacketmaster writes: Documented in a recent Nature journal, researchers have found an abundance of both helium-4 and helium-3 trapped in the volcanic rocks on Baffin Island.

As the Earth formed, it is thought that helium-4 and helium-3 flowing on the solar wind became trapped in the minerals of the cooling planet. With heavier elements and minerals sinking to the bottom, this trapped helium was transported to the core, where it would have remained locked in its original forms.

Earth isn't massive enough to hold on to helium in any significant quantities, though. Any that did not get trapped, or that was subsequently released when the minerals melted in the mantle or due to massive impacts, would have eventually seeped up to the surface and floated off into space. So, helium is relatively rare on Earth, and helium-3 is even more so.

Comment Re: Artificial problem (Score 1) 117

You bring up a good point. One of the reasons cited for the housing crunch is lack of labour. Why? Not as many people that were born in Canada see trade skills as a good career, AND we keep asking for high tech immigrants, not trade skills. So we've created our own housing shortage in some ways.

Comment Audits are months in the making (Score 1) 103

This is a good example of clickbait. An audit of a large bank is not something done in just a few days. It was likely months in the making, so the audit would only cover a point in time of a few months, and the audit likely finished a few months ago too. It would give the timeframe of the audit in the report. It was just finalized and made public a couple of weeks ago.

Comment They can't with the rivers drying up (Score 1) 392

According to this Bloomberg article, France is having problems keeping its nukes cool because of rising water temperatures. With German's rivers drying up, they likely face the same issues. They need solar, wind, and ocean current power generation. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomberg.com%2Fnews...

Comment Not about regulating freedom of speech (Score 1) 293

For American readers, keep in mind Canada does not have a consititutional amendment about freedom of speech. If you're being a belligerent racist, spouting hate speech, the Government of Canada will already be able to charge you. Bill C-10 is about the non-Canadian media companies like Google and Facebook that constantly profit off Canadians, drive Canadian newspapers and media to bankruptcy, and give nothing back to the country. If you think the CRTC has the ability to regulate individuals' speech, remember that we barely have a military to protect our own borders. We definitely don't have the money or technical capability to build a great firewall of speech regulation. The CRTC will barely be able to keep on top of the big tech companies as is. So don't stress about this.

Comment Update: The company did not threaten to sue (Score 1) 367

Romaioli denied they’d received threats. He said the company had simply refused to release design files, forcing them to reverse-engineer the valve. “I talked to an operator who told me he couldn’t give me the files, but after that we didn’t receive anything from the original company — so I can assure you we didn’t get any threat,” Temporelli, the professor that recruited Romaioli and his friend, gave The Verge a more ambiguous account of the call, which he says he wasn’t directly involved in. “The group we asked for the files refused and said it was illegal” to copy the valves, he said. He stopped short of calling the statement a threat. “Let’s say the risk to be sued exists since they bypassed a patent, but that’s it.”

Comment How is this "Crazy Realistic"? (Score 1) 75

First, never click on a link that comes through a text message. No company is doing that, only scammers. If you think there is an issue with your account, just go to the known web site, never click a link in email or text. Second, it mentions the web site looked identical but the URL wasn't right. You can usually copy a link and examine it without even opening it. So why go to a web site that isn't the real one? Just visiting the site could mean you end up with malware installed on a vulnerable computer. And if you visit a website where the domain name doesn't match what you expect, that's a good indication of a scam. Of course it looked like the real thing, they just scraped the HTML. Sounds like a pretty basic scam. A "crazy realistic" scam should at least involve DNS poisoning or something else to mask the bogus URL.

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