MRI machines need thousands of liters of liquid helium to function. Health care workers say they can’t afford any disruptions to the helium supply chain.

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.

  • JuryNullification [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Get ready for helium in everything for like three years and then it’s all gone. No more floaty balloons ever again.

    • RedDawn [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      We can always use hydrogen for the floaty balloons. Double as fireworks!