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Liquid Helium Shortage!


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[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' timestamp='1343764906' post='2460774']
How the heck do you end up with a national helium shortage???
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Actually, it's because you have to mine it up. Seriously. And at the moment it's rather hard to find in earth's crust, which is about the only place to reliably find it on earth. The US built massive stockpiles of it years ago for scientific and military uses, but ever since those were sold it's kinda been difficult to track it down in quantities needed for some kinds of work. The huge influx of supply when those stockpiles were released made mining helium unprofitable for a time, and we're feeling the effects of that now.

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Groo the Wanderer

[quote name='MissyP89' timestamp='1343849727' post='2461208']
So how do we get more helium? Bring down the stars? :idontknow:
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simple. fuse hydrogen atoms together. got TONS of that stuff floating around in the oceans...

need to start exploring for dilithium anyway

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[quote name='Groo the Wanderer' timestamp='1343913303' post='2461537']
simple. fuse hydrogen atoms together. got TONS of that stuff floating around in the oceans...

need to start exploring for dilithium anyway
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Captain I dinnae know if the dilithium crystals can take much more of this Lame Space.

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[quote name='BG45' timestamp='1343964242' post='2461851']
Captain I dinnae know if the dilithium crystals can take much more of this Lame Space.
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Aaaaand we're fresh outta warp cores cap'n!

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