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Originally Posted by tshiggins
Let me guess.
You needed a way for the world to end, and it works pretty well to use a nuclear war triggered by toddler temper-tantrums from a bunch of so-called "leaders" of single-commodity extraction-economy nations suddenly deprived of wealth to which they feel entitled?
Works for me. :)
(I'm so tired of waiting for commercially viable fusion. It's been a promise, my whole life.)
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Yeah. We've been either 'ten years away from...' or 'twenty years away from...' a number of cool things that aren't commercially viable yet since the 1950s or so, maybe even earlier, and fusion power is one of them.
We could in theory have flying cars now, but given the average driver, neither flying cars nor jetpacking to work are good ideas for reasons other than technology. We don't have cities on the Moon for economic and technological reasons. Fusion power is just something that we don't get for purely technological reasons, which doesn't make it less frustrating when someone once again says that we're 'only' twenty years away from it.