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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?"
..just get my wife to talk at the materials for 1/2 hour that should get it up to temparature
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It told me, "Dude, more chocolate and Jack Daniels is the answer to everything."
I'm really not sure my body can be considered a reliable source of information.
KFG
You want to split an atom? Fsck it real good, then just simply /. it!
I'm all over the Mr. Fusion, ...but why would you want a DeLorean?
It can't even do 90 without ripping a hole in the fabric of time.
Was meant to be a reply to another comment...
H.G. Wells, among many other writers, was writing about exploration of space about 100 years ago.
Thousands of years ago, the Greeks were also dreaming of it.
I would call you a troll, but I hate to attribute malice to what could better be explained by stupidity.
You are mixing secular and atheist. Calling the GWB government atheist shows how misinformed you are. Please check a dictionary.
Morality != religion
Idiot!
In Korea only old people use nucelar Fission
Not quite... In Korea the North nukes YOU!
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
flamebait? The entire last sentence is just begging for a fight. However, it only shows the ignorance of atheists when it comes to real-world views of Christians. Seriously...some people really believe that is how the Christians think. It's simply not true.
Mod parent up you morons. "Flaimbait?" WTF?! Parent is absolutely right. Fusion is not 15 years away because we don't understand it (that was in the past). Now it is 15 years away purely for *polictical* reasons.
Im an atheist and i have morals, and i think that most of us atheists have morals. I would say more, we have morals and our reward is here on Earth, and not in afterlife like christians. So please stop saying atheist=inomrals
The parent post hits it right on the nail. The parent's parent post doesn't really know what he/she is talking about and contains false facts.
It's nucular!
:w!q
Yes it is. If it is anti reason at any level it is anti-scientific.
no, YOU mis-spelled "Duke Nukem Forever".
WTF is this ???? I miss the age where these mother fucker was eaten by lions in rome !
If she weighs *the same* as a duck... (emphasis mine)
Then she's made of wood.
And therefore...
A Witch!
(Splitting atoms, splitting hairs - what's the difference?)
I am, and always will be, an idiot. Karma: Coma (mostly effected by
Calling other people (who I think you don't even know) "idiots", is it a "moral" or "immoral" thing to do in your world?
The VATICAN even has scientific institutions, including one of the world's better astronomical observatories.
You're absolutely right. The Vatican is a world leader in science. Why, up until 1992, common sense told us that the Sun revolved around the Earth, but the Vatican broke the story that it is in fact the other way around! Many believe that it was the massive expense of re-writing all the science textbooks in the mid-1990's that led to the unrealistic economic buildup, and inevitable subsequent bust.
Like woodworking? Build your own picture frames.
Who cares about fusion? What geeks REALLY want to do is re-hydrate a pizza.
>Seriously...some people really believe that is how the Christians think.
No, merely the loud-mouthed ones that lobby congress and influence politicians. You know, the ones that actually affect me. You can pray to your deity of choice all day long for all I care, heck I'll defend your right to do so if necessary.
Aah! Evil daystar, it burns us!
Hey paragon - No Shit - its a joke. Don't pipe-up just because you can. Stupid comments like yours (and mine) make reading this forum a pain in the ass.
Self-referential sigs are rarely entertaining.
Please choke to death on your conspiracy theory. It is *NOT* fucking helping.
I'm agnostic. I'm not an atheist. An atheist would say there is no God. I say I don't know if there's a God, and therefore lack a belief in God one way or the other. An atheist would hold a belief that there is no God.
Neither of these belief systems are religious, really. And I'd say that my belief that Santa Clause [sic] implies faith, but not in a religious sense. I have faith that when I step off a curb I'm not going to fall through the street and tumble into oblivion, but that doesn't make me a member of the First Church of Street-Worshippers.
That's all I got.
If life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.
I have to love how anti-Catholicism has become the only politically correct form of bigotry. If you are going to attack the Catholic Church, please get your facts straight, and get some new material. I'm getting tired of refuting the same worn-out arguments over and over.
While the article your comment is amusing, it has little basis in reality. First, Gallileo was not censored by the church merely because he showed that the earth was not the center of the universe. Instead, he was censored because he was confrontational about it and suggested that his work contradicted Catholicism and the Bible. Second, the Catholic Church admits that it is not an expert or authority on science, nor is the Bible, therefore scientific inaccuracies of the Church or the Bible have no effect on the validity of the Church or the Bible. Third, the Church did not teach or hold pre-Gallilean notions until 1992. 1992 is merely the year that the Church publicly apologised for censoring Gallileo.
Finally, if you are willing to look at things rationally, you must acknowledge the amount of church sposored science that occurred. One of the more famous examples is the case of a priest, Gregor Mendel, who is commonly considered the father (groan) of genetics.
Because if it's religous we can't trust it.
I'm guessing it's some kind of phsycological need to humiliate yourself in public.
Psychological.
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Mod me down, you fucking twits. Go ahead. I dare you.
(I read with sigs off.)
They're already seen Fission. I say we give it to the french. If something catastrophic happens, nobody will feel bad about it. Well. Except the French.