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Environment & Energy

marble falls

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1. Yeah, because research is the devil's workshop and we all know how corporations just love to steal our money ...

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Tue Jun 24, 2025, 08:35 AM

Jun 24

... put it into big bonfires. How many years did it take to split atoms? At the first atomic bomb tests, there were concerns that a detonation would set off an unstopable chain reaction and cause the planet to go up like a split atom, like this:

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Or that there was no way to mechanically effect atoms.

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Q: "Why Is Big Tech Investing Billions In Fusion?" A: Because They Like Burning Money On Shiny Bullshit Like AI [View all] hatrack Jun 24 OP

Yeah, because research is the devil's workshop and we all know how corporations just love to steal our money ... marble falls Jun 24 #1

A: This is corporate money, not ours; B: Meitner et. al. proved fission after about 25 years of basic research hatrack Jun 24 #4

Good time for a reality check post from NNadir... dgauss Jun 24 #2

Send out the signal!!!! marble falls Jun 24 #7

"the Vogtle plant ... it's only half-completed" - huh? progree Jun 24 #3

Probably a big assumption on my part - where 3 and 4 are, there must be 1 and 2 . . . hatrack Jun 24 #5

Units 1 and 2 were completed in 1987 and 1989 progree Jun 24 #6

Slowly, light spread across the landscape, making reality visible . . . hatrack Jun 24 #8