So helium is a limited resource. Okay gotcha. So why not take two hydrogen atoms. Take their protons and neutrons. And just fucking start squeezing them together until you get helium?

And I don’t mean in the same way you get H2. Those are still separate from each other.

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    Just a tiny bit of context: we are getting fusion reactors to work in fifty years since 1950.

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      Powered flight was fifty years away from about the ninth century onward. Until 1903. After that it was trivial.