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The U.S. just sold its helium stockpile. Here’s why the medical world is worried. (www.nbcnews.com)
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Privatizing the US national helium reserve. Gonna laugh when in a few years the government of another nation ends up owning it. Helium is dwindling finite resource that key technological infrastructure relies upon.

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[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago

Nope, we also don't have much in the first place.

[-] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago

Brilliant. And I’m guessing a world without helium is something people just sweep under the rug like everything else being destroyed by capital

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