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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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[-] booty@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

The Hobbit is a kids' book, but I'm not sure I'd say Lord of the Rings is childish. There are childish things about it, for sure. The black-and-white Christian morality and "good monarch" stuff, for example. But it's a serious work of literature at the same time.