Keegan wrote:It just strikes me as such an amazing photo, alot of those faces have contributed to the polywell and the future in ways they couldn't have imagined. It makes me wonder what that group of people could have accomplished if they knew what we knew today about nuclear fusion.
Although we have this wonderful monopolized information age where digital information runs wild and free, i cannot help but feel a silent powerful force is negatively influencing the human race in a desperate bid to keep us under controll. The only hope for the common man to be free of this financial and intellectual tyranny is a revolution sparked by abundance of cheap clean energy that only the polywell can hope to produce. After 86 years we may be finally getting our shit together.
Simply amazing. That kind of person is rare: how many Robert W. Bussards are there running around? And then, during the 40's there were all these smart, largely self-taught men working together, all at the same time.
I think we at least owe it to their memories (and Dr. Bussard's!) to get a polywell to continuously generate net power. They wouldn't have given up. I'm not really trained or equipped for it, but I am watching from the sidelines, doing what I can while I wait for a chance to really contribute.
Me too: I feel a silent powerful force is negatively influencing the human race in a desperate bid to keep us under control. I couldn't have said it better. I see people in the world falling into one of two belief systems: feudalism/despotism (rise to wealth and power by enslaving humans beneath you) or democracy (which I can't sum up in a sound bite like this).
The track record for despotism led to ruin way back before the first stable societies and organized governments. Feudalism lost the race during the colonization era of the world during the 1700's. But a democratic world society, and I think the world has this today, can fall easily to a tyrant. Greece. Rome. Germany. Iran. Maybe the U.S.
Two steps forward. One step back. Humans can be brilliant beyond anything one day, and utterly stupid the next. Sometimes we're lucky and the Einsteins of the world flee Germany in time.
With IEC polywell fusion, we can directly generate limitless electrical power. Electricity isn't a very good weapon. It's mainly useful to civilize countries. (Electrolyze seawater. Lighting. Communications. Electric motors for manufacturing and transportation and agriculture. The internet.) Oil and explosives are much more "military" sources of power than electricity.
Hopefully, technology will naturally lead the human race away from all the killing and war will become obsolete. Democracy is my favorite "technological advance" in this regard: in a democracy that really works, killing someone (anyone, from the prime minister to joe on the street) nets the killer nothing except a lot of angry people who then work all the harder to build democracy.