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chrismb wrote:

EricF wrote:

chrismb wrote: What was the big pay-off?

Seriously? We won the war big time, and guaranteed our position as a world superpower.

It is no more possible to win a war than it is to win an earthquake.

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Your premise is flawed.

chrismb wrote:

EricF wrote: Manhattan Project

What was the big pay-off? And isn't this one case where it was actually some of the inventors themselves that decided it had been a bit foolish!!?

Seriously? We won the war big time, and guaranteed our position as a world superpower.

chrismb wrote:

Tom Ligon wrote:anyone care to remember some past research projects criticized as foolish when they were first funded, but which paid off big?

err.. that'll be "any that paid off big"!?

What projects haven't been criticised as foolish at some point in human history?

Manhattan Project

I have a question. I am kinda surprised that the military isn't funding this as sort of an exploration into charged particle beams for weapons. How far do you think the ion beam that the plasmoid ejects from the central cylinder will travel before it dissipates into the atmosphere? I was thinking ab...

If I am not mistaken that is a picture of the fusor from Madison, WI??

Well if you put one under a microscope and it looks anything at all like Jeff Goldblum, you might want to call a professional by the name of Delbert McClintock

Speaking of D-D, in propulsion concepts like Dr Bussards Ramjet or other plasma based thrusters, what is the risk of the D-D irradiating the thruster itself along with the rest of the ship over an extended operating period, especially in something like a trip to Mars and back?

I thought you were giving them to botonists to feed carniverious plants

Good video, thanks dude.

Crazy like a fox?

Here's hoping that 100% of it went to EMC2.

I'm curious, do the governments or utility companies take the small Thorium/Molten Salt reactors seriously as an alternative to Uranium?

You got it mang. Voted and commented.

Hmm, something I read in another thread got me thinking: Does this have the potential to throw a monkey wrench in the Higgs Boson theory? If I understand what the jist of the explanation was, under certain cirumstances the entire atom degenerates down to wave functions in which gravitic, magnetic, a...

Read and re-read The Pheonix Guard by Piers Anthony a bunch in elementary/middle school. Same during high school with Wheel of Time series.