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The Outfall of a Helium-3 Crisis

Posted by samzenpus on from the mining-the-moon dept.

astroengine writes "The United States is currently recovering from a helium isotope crisis that last year sent low-temperature physicists scrambling, sky-rocketed the cost of hospital MRI's, and threw national security staff out on a search mission for alternate ways to detect dirty bombs. Now the panic is subsiding, what is being done to conserve, or replace, helium-3?"

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  1. Re:an outlaw of balloons by DavidRawling · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Perhaps I can help you understand, in the standard American fashion of talking loudly in the hope that this will magically convert the English words into the local dialect.

    THE GOVERNMENT IS STUPID. THIS MEANS THEY WILL MAKE A STUPID, ILLOGICAL, INEFFECTIVE DECISION THAT DOES NOTHING TO RESOLVE THE ACTUAL PROBLEM.

    There is no malice from the Government - it's a case where they're too flipping stupid to be malicious.