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It would suck if the peer review was good but the whole project got line-itemed again, this time because of the current financial crunch.

If it works, this time will be looked back upon as the end of the stone age and the beginning of the golden age.

Back in the 70's, after the last moon mission, I wished they would have sent the last 3 Saturn V missions as additions to Skylab. NASA sent 1 Skylab, 2 return trips to Skylab, and a PR linkup with the Russians with the last 4. If they had just sent the last 4 up and linked them together, they would ...

Yeah, I was in a funk the whole day over the story. I remember when I was a kid in the sixties being scared for a week about the great California earthquake that was supposed to take out the west coast. Anyway, one thing I got on to about a month or two ago before getting distracted, another possibl...

Actually, today I found out a 10 year old girl in India was so frightened about it she killed herself, and Indian villagers have been praying in temples for fear the world would end. Not fun anymore for me.

Probably if WB100 ever gets funded we'll hear people saying it's going to produce black holes and stranglets that swallow the world.

I thought the timing to the war in Georgia was a little hokey. Basically, Putin visits Bush a few weeks before, and one report said they were talking about Putin's concern at maintaining the price of oil. Georgia has the rival pipeline from the Caspian Sea to western Europe. Who was the braintrust t...

If everything was timed just right, it could set a new fusion record for this type of device in the one or two seconds between massive destructive power being applied and device failure. I once met an engineer for the CSA, he told me they had to do similar destructive testing on MRI machines, and da...

Well, if it has no other practical use, I propose one final experiment. Input as much power as can be connected until it finally dies in a shower of sparks and melts into a puddle. Just to see how much max fusion power it can actually make when we don't need to save it. So much current Santa Fe has ...

Now that the contract has expired, what is to become of WB7? Are there any additional experiments it can be used/modified to accomplish, or does it end up sitting in an office in line with the other WB machines. Worst case, maybe sold to a modern art museum, looks very cool. Maybe some university ph...

If the government wanted to shut things down, the best way would be to sequester both the emc2 staff and peer review panel, and have a false report put out showing the experiment as a total failure. It would have to be good enough to fool a tokamak researcher at the very least. That would give them ...

The general public will probably refer to the Bussard reactor as a "Nuke" or "Nuke Plant." If you ran a survey on the street asking who invented television I doubt if even 10% would know the name "Farnsworth."

The rule of thumb with english is that over time hard words soften and long words shorten. The name that sticks will be the one that rolls off the tongue without having to stop and catch your breath. Some politically correct types tried to change the official name of commercial fishermen to fishers,...

Even with well documented methodology, they're probably still going to get the Fleischmann and Pons treatment times ten. It's a case of the world isn't ready. I got the impression in the last MSNBC report both Nebel and Kulchinski were interviewed at the same time/place, possibly Santa Fe. That woul...