Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    I foresee this escalating and getting worse, leading to some catastrophic nonsense that puts our species to shame in only a matter of months.

    We’re running out of helium, the strategic oil reserves are at most 20% of what’s needed, and now that wells are capped it’s to take months to get back.

    As this continues Trump will get madder, dementia-ier, and try and escalate more.

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      2 days ago

      We aren’t running out of Helium. The date at which a specific reservoir gets sold is coming closer.

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        Technically we are. We won’t be out in our lifetimes, to my knowledge, but we aren’t making more helium. Once its gone, its gone. So, it is running out, but on what time scale?

        When will the human race start slowing down? Its eventually just going to get crazy expensive and only used when vital. And we’re filling party balloons with it.

        • MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Isn’t this about purity or something and the helium used for party balloons wouldn’t be used in critical applications either way?

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            Only because it’s not currently financially viable to purify it. It’s still mostly helium.

        • hector@lemmy.today
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          I believe it’s in more natural gas than just the stuff in parts of texas. South Africa somewhere has some if I recall.

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        21 hours ago

        Would it be comical? If they had nukes and were backed into a corner they would likely use them.

        In fact we can infer from US/Israel’s willingness to attack now that their intelligence must be telling them that they do not have nukes.

    • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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      22 hours ago

      The odds of Trump trying to nuke someone is higher than 0%. My nation has contracted rabies. 😰

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        20 hours ago

        Their only strategy is to escalate and try to look stronger.

        Now, the US military is not something to scoff at, but they’ll eventually end up escalating to nukes and threats of nukes, because there’s no way to win.

    • hector@lemmy.today
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      What does running out of helium mean though? Bush auctioned off the helium supply for no good reason, they get it from like natural gas in Texas, but also now like South Africa or something.

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        1 day ago

        semiconductors is most critical industry. US is an equal producer to Qatar (33% of supply each), and it is made from LNG (part that doesn’t liquify) byproduct.