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Carl White
Posts: 497 Joined: Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:44 pm
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by Carl White Mon Jan 01, 2024 11:41 pm
1. ZAP achieves Q(sci) > 1.
2. Helion generates net power.
3. SpaceX launches and lands a Starship.
Very humble hope:
4. IVO's Quantum Drive demonstrably works.
Also:
5. The USA doesn't go crazy during its election year.
6. Conflicts in Ukraine and Israel don't escalate.
7. China doesn't invade Taiwan.
mvanwink5
Posts: 2172 Joined: Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:07 amLocation: N.C. Mountains
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by mvanwink5 Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:34 pm
Good list!
Counting the days to commercial fusion. It is not that long now.
JoeP
Posts: 524 Joined: Sat Jun 25, 2011 5:10 am
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by JoeP Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:43 pm
Good list!
Giorgio
Posts: 3092 Joined: Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:15 pmLocation: China, Italy
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by Giorgio Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:46 pm
Carl White wrote: ↑ Mon Jan 01, 2024 11:41 pm
5. The USA doesn't go crazy during its election year.
As a non US citizen following US politics from abroad I had the feeling that USA already lost any rationale in the coming elections.....
Carl White wrote: ↑ Mon Jan 01, 2024 11:41 pm
Very humble hope:
4. IVO's Quantum Drive demonstrably works.
Same here, very little hopes but what a feat would that be if it proves to work.
A society of dogmas is a dead society.
ladajo
Posts: 6264 Joined: Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:18 pmLocation: North East Coast
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by ladajo Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:57 pm
I am hoping we make it through another year without getting hit by a pop-up asteroid. The other stuff I can live with.
The development of atomic power, though it could confer unimaginable blessings on mankind, is something that is dreaded by the owners of coal mines and oil wells. (Hazlitt)
Betruger
Posts: 2327 Joined: Tue May 06, 2008 11:54 am
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by Betruger Tue Jan 09, 2024 11:27 am
George Church (or ...) launches hideously expensive but effective pet life extension program.
You can do anything you want with laws except make Americans obey them. | What I want to do is to look up S. . . . I call him the Schadenfreudean Man.
