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Exposing iPhones and iWatches to helium causes malfunctions

Wed Oct 31, 2018 6:49 pm

https://ifixit.org/blog/11986/iphones-a ... to-helium/

This is crazy stuff. I guess if you use bleeding edge tech, there are bound to be some caveats...
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Re: Exposing iPhones and iWatches to helium causes malfunctions

Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:10 pm

This is why I avoid MRI machines and welding.
 
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Re: Exposing iPhones and iWatches to helium causes malfunctions

Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:43 pm

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This is why I avoid MRI machines and welding.

Aww, c’mon. If you weld next to the helium in the presence of a strong magnetic field, you might help create a breakthrough in nuclear fusion tech
 
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Re: Exposing iPhones and iWatches to helium causes malfunctions

Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:47 pm

Yeah... funny how those breakthroughs often come at the risk of catastrophic damage to your body, the thing you're working on, or both.
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Re: Exposing iPhones and iWatches to helium causes malfunctions

Wed Oct 31, 2018 7:54 pm

The Egg wrote:
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This is why I avoid MRI machines and welding.

Aww, c’mon. If you weld next to the helium in the presence of a strong magnetic field, you might help create a breakthrough in nuclear fusion tech

I'm pretty sure that's one recipe for a Super-Villain.
 
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I'm pretty sure that's one recipe for a Super-Villain.
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Re: Exposing iPhones and iWatches to helium causes malfunctions

Thu Nov 01, 2018 8:48 am

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This is why I avoid MRI machines and welding.

Oh, yes. totally. That's exactly why I avoid those things, too. :lol:
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Re: Exposing iPhones and iWatches to helium causes malfunctions

Thu Nov 01, 2018 10:43 am

So it's ill-advised to take your iPhone with you the next time you ride in a blimp?
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So it's ill-advised to take your iPhone with you the next time you ride in a blimp?

Well, if you're riding IN the blimp, as opposed to the cabin, I guess. If you're riding in the cabin and the blimp is losing helium, your phone and watch are the least of your problems. :lol:
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Re: Exposing iPhones and iWatches to helium causes malfunctions

Thu Nov 01, 2018 7:19 pm

derFunkenstein wrote:
Well, if you're riding IN the blimp, as opposed to the cabin, I guess. If you're riding in the cabin and the blimp is losing helium, your phone and watch are the least of your problems. :lol:


I was just thinking the same thing... :lol:
 
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Re: Exposing iPhones and iWatches to helium causes malfunctions

Thu Nov 01, 2018 7:25 pm

derFunkenstein wrote:
K-L-Waster wrote:
So it's ill-advised to take your iPhone with you the next time you ride in a blimp?

Well, if you're riding IN the blimp, as opposed to the cabin, I guess. If you're riding in the cabin and the blimp is losing helium, your phone and watch are the least of your problems. :lol:

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Re: Exposing iPhones and iWatches to helium causes malfunctions

Thu Nov 01, 2018 7:56 pm

End User wrote:
derFunkenstein wrote:
K-L-Waster wrote:
So it's ill-advised to take your iPhone with you the next time you ride in a blimp?

Well, if you're riding IN the blimp, as opposed to the cabin, I guess. If you're riding in the cabin and the blimp is losing helium, your phone and watch are the least of your problems. :lol:

Oh, the humanity!

At least helium doesn't explode.
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Re: Exposing iPhones and iWatches to helium causes malfunctions

Fri Nov 02, 2018 6:24 am

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derFunkenstein wrote:
Well, if you're riding IN the blimp, as opposed to the cabin, I guess. If you're riding in the cabin and the blimp is losing helium, your phone and watch are the least of your problems. :lol:

Oh, the humanity!

At least helium doesn't explode.


There is that -- at least you remain at a comfy temperature as you fall to your death with no functioning iPhone accelerometer...
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Re: Exposing iPhones and iWatches to helium causes malfunctions

Fri Nov 02, 2018 8:39 am

I'm just imagining being the techs trying to troubleshoot this one.
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Re: Exposing iPhones and iWatches to helium causes malfunctions

Fri Nov 02, 2018 8:50 am

K-L-Waster wrote:
at least you remain at a comfy temperature as you fall to your death with no functioning iPhone accelerometer...

What good is an accelerometer in freefall??
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Re: Exposing iPhones and iWatches to helium causes malfunctions

Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:08 am

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Oh, the humanity!


Ironically, Herbert Morrison was actually referring to his previously mentioned "mass of humanity" that was milling about underneath the mooring point for the Hindenburg.

He wasn't referring to anyone on the blimp (the next four words are literally "and all the passengers", let alone the "general statement of humankind" or some such.

Only one guy on the ground died, and most of the people in the passenger cabin survived. A lot of them literally just stepped off the thing. A lot of the crew, not in the cabin, died from fire.

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At least helium doesn't explode.


Two-Thirds (or abouts) of the people in the Hindenburg lived.

Virtually everyone in the Helium-lift USS Akron died (alright, alright from exposure/drowing because it went down over the sea).
 
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Re: Exposing iPhones and iWatches to helium causes malfunctions

Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:19 am

On a side note - if you are ever near Friedrichshafen (on the shore of Lake Constance) I highly recommend that you visit both the Zeppelin Museum and the neighbouring Dornier museums. Both are a must see for any aviation enthusiasts. I enjoyed them immensely.

https://www.zeppelin-museum.de/
https://www.dorniermuseum.de/en/


BTW, if you are a fan of the Man in the High Castle show on Neflix you may recognize the Do 31 from a season 3 episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier_Do_31
 
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Re: Exposing iPhones and iWatches to helium causes malfunctions

Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:40 am

Glorious wrote:
End User wrote:
Oh, the humanity!


Ironically, Herbert Morrison was actually referring to his previously mentioned "mass of humanity" that was milling about underneath the mooring point for the Hindenburg.

He wasn't referring to anyone on the blimp (the next four words are literally "and all the passengers", let alone the "general statement of humankind" or some such.

Only one guy on the ground died, and most of the people in the passenger cabin survived. A lot of them literally just stepped off the thing. A lot of the crew, not in the cabin, died from fire.

JBI wrote:
At least helium doesn't explode.


Two-Thirds (or abouts) of the people in the Hindenburg lived.

Virtually everyone in the Helium-lift USS Akron died (alright, alright from exposure/drowing because it went down over the sea).


Akron's sister ship the Macon took that lesson to heart. When it crashed in 1935, there were only two fatalities.
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Re: Exposing iPhones and iWatches to helium causes malfunctions

Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:20 pm

Captain Ned wrote:
K-L-Waster wrote:
at least you remain at a comfy temperature as you fall to your death with no functioning iPhone accelerometer...

What good is an accelerometer in freefall??


Well, your friends on Instagram are never going to believe it unless you get a screen cap with a scary number, now, are they?
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