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Wow, that's a really insane and cool phenomena. I should keep this in my memory in case I encounter it in my career. Also, if there was enough helium to contam
by hatsunearu 8y ago
Wow, that's a really insane and cool phenomena. I should keep this in my memory in case I encounter it in my career.
Also, if there was enough helium to contaminate the entire atmosphere, was there not a pretty significant chance of an asphyxiation hazard?
- alxlaz 8y agoI don't think there was. It's not like people figured out today that bad quantities of helium can be bad, and that big tanks have big quantities of helium, so MRI rooms are routinely equipped with oxygen sensors (see e.g. https://www.pureairemonitoring.com/oxygen-o2-monitor-for-mri-rooms-pureaire-sells-a-hassle-free-10-year-oxygen-monitor/ https://www.pureairemonitoring.com/oxygen-o2-monitor-for-mri... -- not affiliated, it's just the first result on Google). If the spill had been significant, these would have definitely caught it. Besides, an MRI's liquid helium tanks are big, but not that big to cause trouble if they leak over a period of a couple of hours in a ventilated room.
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- loco5niner 8y ago"Hey Bob, you ok? You're talking kinda funny".