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Why Helium?
The technology / Science is great, but why did they choose Helium? Don't they read their science magazines, or nobody told them? Helium is the one gas we don't have left in abundance, and is likely to run out in the short term. Surely one of the other inert gases would have been a better choice. It's bad enough that we will be wasting great amounts this holiday season with people consuming it from balloons at xmas parties, now they want to put extra pressure on the resources by filling the milliards of hard drives with it. I suppose that will also push the price up as the gas gets more rare.
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Posted by steve@...
Updated - 24th Dec