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August 18th is #HeliumDiscoveryDay, so the #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is SUN/SOLAR/HELIUM #wotd #sun #solar #helium #eclipse

@telescoper
I played with #superfluids back in my 20th Century youth, so I’ll give this a go.

Curiously, a “dry” fluid with no #viscosity can be great at making things wet! I speak of course of #superfluid #helium-4, renowned for escaping any open container, flowing as a film a few atoms thick and climbing walls with forces much stronger than puny gravity can resist.
Apply this concept to an #armpit and the consequences are clear: no pore unclogged, no bacterium unstifled.

#OnThisDay #Helium was discovered (1868) by French #Astronomer Jules Janssen during a total solar eclipse in Guntur, India.

Birth Anniversary of French #Virologist Luc Montagnier (1932). He received #NobelPrize for discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (#HIV).

Birth Anniversary of #Actor Robert Redford (1936).

https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

Latest look at the impact of turning privatization into a religion: The push to #privatize the #US #Helium stockpile, begun in 1996, is nearing completion. Supply disruptions, made worse by #Trump’s war of choice against #Iran will impact things like 1) healthcare (especially MRIs), 2) science that requires #superconductingmagnets, 3) production of #microchips. Helium is a non-renewable resource https://www.newsweek.com/america-has-a-helium-problem-11768757

The downside of a rolling release distro like #Arch - #FFMPEG updated and now has broken media playback in @Waterfox - So this gives me on opportunity to try out some Chromium-based browsers like #Helium while I patiently await a fix.

Ab August hat Microsoft begonnen, Manifest v2 Erweiterungen wie #uBlock in #Edge nicht mehr zu unterstützen. Damit fällt eine weitere Browser-Option weg. Ich nutze aktuell #Helium (geschäftlich) und #Firefox (privat).

Tool-seitig habe ich da jetzt auch mal etwas aufgeräumt:

➡️ #Zotero für alle Links, Literatur, Referenzen, Anhänge werden in #Nextcloud gespeichert (Zotero Extension in #Helium, #Edge und #Firefox)

➡️ #KOreader auf allen Hardware-E-Book-Readern (Kindle, Pocketbook, XTink, Remarkable)

➡️ #Readest als E-Book-Reader für iOS (synct mit KOreader)

➡️ Zotero #MCP Server, um mit Claude auf Zotero und #Obsidian zugreifen zu können

#pkm #clcpkm

https://xcancel.com/uwukko/status/2079901870357729626

#Brave #Privacy #Browser #Helium

RE: https://mastodon.social/@proseandpassion/116935425709917770

Where in #space can #planets with #atmospheres be found? C. Cherubim et al. (2026) used #nearinfraredspectroscopy to characterize a #rocky #exoplanet orbiting its host star within the #habitablezone. Planet #LHS1140b exhibits #helium #absorption in its atmosphere, a feature the authors attribute to a helium-dominated #upperatmosphericlayer.

© #StefanFWirth, July 2026, Berlin

Reference
C. Cherubim et al. (2026)
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aea9708

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🪐🔭 For the first time, astronomers have detected an #atmosphere on a rocky #planet in the habitable zone of another #star.

The super-Earth LHS 1140 b, located 50 light years away, shows signs of a #helium dominated atmosphere escaping into #space. Researchers used the WINERED #spectrograph at Las Campanas Observatory to make the ground-based #discovery.

👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-astronomers-have-detected-an-atmosphere-around-a-rocky-planet-in-the-habitable-zone

#astronomy #exoplanet #superearth #habitablezone #spectrograph #lhs1140b #science #reddwarf #harvard

Oh, look! An #exoplanet is losing #helium like a deflating party balloon, and we need #JavaScript to see it. 🎈💨 Next, they'll say we need cookies to track alien tears. 🍪👽
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea9708 #space #science #astronomy #HackerNews #ngated

Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea9708

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939742

#HackerNews #helium #exoplanet #habitablezone #spaceexploration #astrophysics

Astronomers have detected an #atmosphere around a rocky #planet orbiting in the #habitable zone of a nearby #star.

Such planets around red dwarf stars have long been considered the best places in the galaxy to look for signs of alien #life. But so far, the #planets looked like bare rocks.

It wasn’t clear if planets like this could even have atmospheres. Now we know that they can.

The planet, LHS 1140b, is about 5.6 times as massive as Earth and 1.73 times Earth’s size. Those dimensions are consistent with an Earthlike composition shrouded in a gaseous atmosphere, or perhaps a global ocean of water.

It also orbits far enough from its star that its surface temperature could support liquid water.

Astronomers observed the molecular fingerprint of excess #helium gas absorbing light from the star. That excess is a sign of helium streaming away from the planet’s atmosphere, implying that it indeed has an atmosphere.

#exoplanets #astronomy #astrobiology https://www.sciencenews.org/article/rocky-exoplanet-helium-atmosphere

Paper by Cherubim et al. (2026):
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea9708

La Chine coupe ses exportations d'hélium, nécéssaire à la fabrication des puces
https://mac4ever.com/197113
#Mac4Ever #Chine #helium

Someone made Helium avaliable on GitHub as fork and its also avaliable on Google Play Store #Android #Helium #browser #chromium

Trying out the Helium web browser, and it's looking good.

Hat tip: @ianbetteridge:

"it’s about as stripped back as you can imagine. There’s no password manager, because you should be bringing a secure one of your own. There’s no mail client, AI integration, crazy sidebars… and of course, no Google. But what there is is a light, clean browser which comes out of the box with support for uBlock Origin..."

https://helium.computer/

#Helium #Browser #WebBrowser

@Madic I highly recommend #Helium if you wan't great and minimal Chromium "skin".

want to use #Helium as replacement for Brave, but the #Bitwarden extension still doesn't work properly on it 😭

RE: https://mastodontech.de/@Deskmodder/116854320336577556

Von Version zu Version zu bangen, ob der Werbeblocker noch funktioniert, ist nichts für meine Nerven. Bin schon vor einer Weile zu #Helium gewechselt und damit sehr zufrieden: https://helium.computer - was für den #digitalindependenceday ?

Helium Cookbook

https://juliaclement.com/joke-a-day/helium-cookbook/

Yes, I realize that H2 is larger than the single atom of He (even though half the weight), thus making He more leak-prone. I'm going for a test of leak size, like in The Andromeda Strain.
#iPhone #hydrogen #helium #MEMS #Apple

But what about a hydrogen atmosphere?
https://www.ifixit.com/News/11986/iphones-are-allergic-to-helium
#iPhone #helium #MEMS #OhTheHumanity #Apple

Helium Design Lab’s HeSL3 Interface Plate Promises To Be the Perfect Pairing for the New Leica SL3-P https://petapixel.com/2026/06/25/helium-design-labs-hesl3-interface-plate-promises-to-be-the-perfect-pairing-for-the-new-leica-sl3-p/ #heliumdesignlab #interfaceplate #cameraplate #tripodplate #cameragrip #Equipment #leicasl3p #leicasl3 #helium #leica #News

Why the 2026 Helium Shortage Threatens the Future of Global Technology
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=why-the-2026-helium-shortage-threatens-the-future-of-global-technology
Latest: <p>Helium
#technology #threatens #shortage #helium

💬 Warum soll dieser #Browser jetzt eine Empfehlung sein?

https://chaos.social/@kubikpixel/116690524785779909

Erster Start:
👉 will eine VERBINDUNG zu #Google aufbauen 🤨

@kubikpixel #Datenschutz #GoogleChrome #Helium #HeliumBrowser

hapus zen browser dan bikin #helium pakai sidebar vertical biar mirip zen. 

okay

follow up: applescript had some issues with a newline character. Simple fix

https://gurupanguji.com/blog/2026/05/24/teaching-alfred-about-the-helium-browser-gurupanguji/

#helium #web