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NNadir

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2. Only 31,410,592 seconds to go each year and we're saved.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Apr 14, 2024, 02:06 PM

Apr 2024

I was young when I first started hearing of fusion "breakthroughs," and they've been announced regularly all through the long period in which I grew to an old man.

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Nuclear fusion reactor in South Korea runs at 100 million degrees C for a record-breaking 48 seconds [View all] Judi Lynn Apr 2024 OP

Wonderful achievement. I wonder when such technological developments will led to better and cleaner SWBTATTReg Apr 2024 #1

Only 31,410,592 seconds to go each year and we're saved. NNadir Apr 2024 #2

When I was young I heard about pocket phones and gene therapy and encyclopedias by wire. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2024 #3

And the point is what? That phones and gene therapy are more difficult than fusion energy? NNadir Apr 2024 #4

Hazards of Prophecy Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2024 #5

I'm sorry, but I read science, not science fiction, because I'm a scientist, not a kid watching SciFi cartoons. NNadir Apr 2024 #6

Your cheap shot about me being a kid watching sci-fi cartoons is not worthy of you Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2024 #7

My "shot" is neither cheap nor is it really all that personal. NNadir Apr 2024 #8