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aeternumtoday at 6:54 PM3 repliesview on HN

Helium luckily is the second most abundant element in the universe. A good reason to go to the stars.


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smegger001today at 7:38 PM

mostly out of our reach unless you have way of removing it from the sun without your retrieval craft melting or being captured by the suns gravity well or from gas giants without the onboard system being fried by the intense radiation or again captured by the gravitation.

everdrivetoday at 6:58 PM

We might find it quite difficult to extract from the stars, that said.

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IAmBroomtoday at 8:16 PM

A round-trip lasting centuries is not a practical solution. Star Trek is fiction.