Michelle Thaller
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1,835 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 28 May
Michelle Thaller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You may be familiar that the Greek sun god's name is Helios.
Helium is an element we discovered on the sun before we ever knew it was here.
In the turn of the last century, in the late 1800s, when they were passing sunlight through a prism and they were looking at all these patterns of light, there was one chemical that we'd never seen before here.
And so they named it after the sun, helium.
It was on the sun but not here.
We never knew that helium was here.
That was found later.
It was later we found it in natural gas, radioactive decay.
Helium is such a light gas, it just leaves the Earth.
It just doesn't stick around.
And so helium, we saw this pattern of colors in the sun's light.
We were like, well, what the hell is that?
And it turned out to be a new element we'd never found before.
What year was that?
We should look this up.
I don't know exactly, but if we Google what year was helium found, I'm sure we can find it.
We didn't even know about helium until 1868.
Long before we ever identified it on this planet.
Right.
Yeah.
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