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Earthly Helium-3 Crisis!
by cfrjlr 
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/us/23helium.html?_r=1&hpw
Helium-3 Crisis! Demand now exceeds supply by a factor of ten. The price has jumped to $2,000 a liter from $100 in the last few years
The NYT article fails to mention that Helium-3 is relatively abundant on the Moon.
11/23/09 09:38:34 am, 
LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon
by cfrjlr
Link: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/prelim_water_results.html
"We are ecstatic," said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "Multiple lines of evidence show water was present in both the high angle vapor plume and the ejecta curtain created by the LCROSS Centaur impact. The concentration and distribution of water and other substances requires further analysis, but it is safe to say Cabeus holds water."