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1 year ago

#2972 - Helium Synthesis

A comic with four panels.

First panel: Four people sitting at a table. One person says: "These helium shortages every few years are such a pain. Our company needs a reliable source of helium."

Second panel: Another person asks, "Where does helium come from, anyway?" Yet another replies, "Hmm, apparently most of it is from 'Big Bang nucleosynthesis'?" The person from panel 1 says, "Well, let's figure out how to do that."

Third panel (three smaller images):
Image 1: Three stick figures next to a machine labeled "Big Bang Nucleosynthesis." One of them holds what looks like a remote control, or switch, attached to the machine.
Image 2: An image of a cosmic explosion.
Image 3: An image of galaxies and stars.

Fourth panel: Labelled "14 Billion Years Later", otherwise same as the first panel.

Hidden text: "Our lawyers were worried because it turns out the company inherits its debt from the parent universe, but luckily cosmic inflation reduced it to nearly zero."

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