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New Advances Bring Fusion Closer to Reality
An anonymous reader writes "The Christian Science Monitor reports on new advances in nuclear fusion research. For years we've been waiting for the technical breakthroughs that would make cost-effective fusion energy a reality. Are we getting close, or are the problems insurmountable?"
" I'm sorry, we're looking at a theological magazine for technical articles?"
Let me get this straight... Christians can't invent things, or are ever involved in science?
Look around you. The vast majority of everything you take for granted was invented by someone who happened to be Christian, or was made possible by the FREEDOM to invent only possible with the democratic freedom invented by Christian dominated countries.
The Christian Sciene Monitor is not some church publication. But what if it were? The VATICAN even has scientific institutions, including one of the world's better astronomical observatories.
You know, and I will be modded to hell for suggesting this... But even as our governemnt and courts seem to move to FORCE secularization into all parts of public life and expression, our freedom to invent is being ever more threatened by new IP laws.
These laws are being proposed and imposed by a legally atheistic government, that is divorcing all decision from MORALITY finds no problem with granting multinational corporations intellectual property monopolies and the ability to crush individuals.
Corporatism != Free Market
I don't buy this fusion bullshit any further.
...) project, and I have no regrets at the outcome.
I urged my Congresscritters to kill off the Superconducting Supercollider (Superexpensive Superporkbarrel
Big Science was spiraling out of control. (Arguably, NASA is still waaaay out of control.) It's time we started punishing the Fusionites for their decades upon decades of colossal failures.
I say take their funding to zero! You cannot reward incompetence and then expect sound results. I'm perfectly happy leaving it for other governments and private industry to take the risks of developing fusion power methods. If only America had a fucking brain and work ethic, we wouldn't need to take such drastic steps.
Kill fusion research public funding. Decades of funding! Nothing to show for it! This is obscene! Those welfare queens will have to find real work for a change.
[You have a stable society when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the law doesn't change.]
that you're a bigot who stereotypes the vast majority of Americans as anti-science?
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