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[valarltd]

I am disgusted.

Let's get back into space, so we can have millions of missiles to kiil everyone, plus get a complete monopoly on the moon's energy sources.

Hello! Let's get a working fusion reactor going before we start trying to monopolize the fuel source!

Grrrrr!
The more I see of this, the more it becomes clear that Bush is determined to own the universe or blow it up trying.

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[thornsilver]

This somehow scarily reminds me of the book "Titan" wherein the human race accidentally destroyed itself due to the space race pissing contest. Yes, I read too much science fiction, which interferes with sound sleep. *Creeped out.*

[tanacawyr.livejournal.com]

I would really like to grab every politician in the world by the earlobes and scream into their porky, vacant faces:

"WE HAVE A FUSION REACTOR ALREADY! IT'S CALLED THE SUN!"

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

yep.

OTOH, hubby worked on cold fusion under a DOE grant for the first 6 years of our marriage, so I won't bite the hand that fed us (albeit Peanut Butter and Ramen on Grad Student Pay)

I'd like to see more done with solar power on a national level. On a personal level, I live in a high sun area, and one of my goals for this summer is to get a working solar oven. I'll probably buy it, since my attempt at making it failed miserably.

[tanacawyr.livejournal.com]

Ah hell, cold fusion was worth investigating certainly, just to see if there was anything in it.

Same thing here with high-sun. My fantasy is to put solar batteries ont he roof and go off the grid entirely, but with refrigerators and washers and stuff like that, I'm not sure it's feasible. However, it'd be nice to get at least a bit of my energy from solar power. I mean, the sun's sort of ... FREE. Right there for use. (I think that's why politicians and utility companies hate it. They can't turn the sun off if you don't pay your bill.)