XPost: alt.fan.heinlein   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Lynn McGuire   wrote:   
   >   
   >Helium is not in short supply.  I can buy cans of it at many stores for   
   >blowing up balloons.   
      
   Although the shortage is not as bad as it was five or six years ago   
   before the US started selling off the helium reserves, the prices are   
   still high and most companies will sell only a limited amount at a time.   
   Really annoying for people who do weather balloons.   
      
   BUT... there is a solution, and it's nuclear power since it's a decay   
   product of uranium and thorium.   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)