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xkcd #2972: Helium Synthesis (xkcd.com)
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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.

https://explainxkcd.com/2972/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Depends? Liquid nitrogen can freeze a lot of vibrational degrees of freedom in place, but if you want molecular rotations to stop as well, there's no way around He.