<html><head></head><body><div><span data-mailaddress="spike66@att.net" data-contactname="spike" class="clickable"><span title="spike66@att.net">spike</span><span class="detail"> <spike66@att.net></span></span> , 18/12/2014 6:23 PM:</div><blockquote class="mori" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-color: blue; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>>...What amazed me was that these things, with thousands of brazed joints, <br>don't leak helium. Keith <br>_______________________________________________ <br><br>Ja, helium wants to be free. That stuff is hard to contain. Any tiny crack <br>or imperfection in any joint or anywhere and it's game over man. </blockquote><div><br></div>So maybe the real limiting factor is how well the cooler can survive actual usage (and the occasional bird in the intake). I have the impression that this is finicky technology, despite the good people behind it.<div><br></div><div>But it would be awesome to get to space using UK technology, just for the sheer unlikeliness of it (for those who don't know, the UK always looks a bit shoddy since the place industrialized first and got stuck with an infrastructure generations behind). <br><br><blockquote class="mori" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-color: blue; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"></blockquote><br>Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University</div></body></html>