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chrismb wrote:yeah, sure. Worth doing - and funded by those who think it'll work, not by forced payments extracted from those who don't!

Speaking as a US taxpayer, I'm willing for my $0.0267 share (per capita) to go to EMC2 to work on Polywell fusion.

chrismb wrote:

Tom Ligon wrote: I do not miss Fortran.

Just gimme a language that I can toss complex variables around in, with ease, then I will consider it suitable for engineering purposes!

You mean like Scheme, which has had support for complex variables as first-class numbers since at least the early 1990's?

I've been playing around with Fedora for over a year, and after finding out about the C Shell using C decided to read a book on it. Over 10 years ago had a couple courses in Basic, Pascal, and Assembler. The thing about C++ is, you can create a functioning program that can do things not intended. T...

The lines leading "out" of the image go to the walls and act as supports. The center "circle" has the same lines leading into the picture for the opposite face, and out of the picture for the near face. If I am correctly understanding the requirements this should create the required fields in the r...

Simon, I do not think that this problem is (solely) political. The A 380 is among the most modern airplanes arround and it was built in Europe, where government involvement is even worse than in the US... You want bigger, faster passenger jets. We could build bigger, faster passenger jets. But who ...

EricF wrote:

Betruger wrote:But will there be any current?

There's certainly the potential for some

If there's any resistance, I'll be induced to make some bad puns.

I wonder if our advancement is slowing down due to a degrading educational system? That assumes that we are slowing down, which was the question originally asked. It is premature to search for causes for a result which hasn't been verified. One counterpoint I'll give is Moore's Law. The periodic do...

I still do not understand where the Th230 will come from, as blaisepascal already asked. It can be obtained from the alpha decay of U234 or Pu238. You will find some from LWR spent fuel but this is going to take a lot of time. Th230 can be found naturally, originally called Ionium. Wikipedially eas...

I still do not understand where the Th230 will come from, as blaisepascal already asked. It can be obtained from the alpha decay of U234 or Pu238. You will find some from LWR spent fuel but this is going to take a lot of time. It appears that he is planning on breeding the Th230 from Th232 by irrad...

Just looked more closely at the decay chain. Half life of 1.4E10 YEARS for alpha decay? Just how long should we be willing to wait for this power? Am I missing something? Perhaps. The title of this thread is "U232 can be a bridge to aneutronic fusion power". While it's true that nothing in this pro...

I investigated a problem with a Chrysler cruise control that tended to stick in the Resume position. This resulted in acceleration in which it would not turn off when the brakes were applied. Again, I don't really understand this as all european cars with cruise control come with a separate cruise-...

Thats what Toyota gets for outsourcing production to cheaper countries, such as the Czech republic. From what I heard the faulty parts were made there. No pitty for Toyota there. Shame on yout Toyota, those used to be some really good cars! Not really. An unreliable part is a factor, but any part c...

Can someone tell me if the ignition keys of the Toyota Prius models you have over there are locked once at speed? I can't really understand why we are hearing of these incidents [in the US] where people end up 'unable to stop'. Why not just turn the ignition off? My understanding (from having frien...

From that link; "The current schedule calls for operating the machine at a level that would result in collisions with the energy of 7 TeV (3.5 TeV per beam)" Can someone explain this? Maybe its a relativistic thing, but surely two 3.5TeV beams make a 14TeV collision, or a 7TeV collision is formed f...

Gentlemen, this discussion is in the weeds. After perusing the responses, rather than apply my usual method of having at it hammer and tongs, I decided to ponder a bit to see if I could think of a clearer way of presenting my argument. I fear I have hardened your minds against my argument to the ex...