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								by Carl White   »  Mon Jan 01, 2024 11:41 pm 
			
			
			
			
			 
1. ZAP achieves Q(sci) > 1.
2. Helion generates net power.
3. SpaceX launches and lands a Starship.
Very humble hope:
4. IVO's Quantum Drive demonstrably works.
Also:
5. The USA doesn't go crazy during its election year.
6. Conflicts in Ukraine and Israel don't escalate.
7. China doesn't invade Taiwan.
 
			
			
									
									
						 
		 
				
		
		 
	 
	 
				
	 
				
		
		
			
				
																			
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								by mvanwink5   »  Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:34 pm 
			
			
			
			
			Good list!  
 
			
			
									
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								by JoeP   »  Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:43 pm 
			
			
			
			
			Good list! 
I'll add: no recession
			
			
									
									
						 
		 
				
		
		 
	 
	 
				
		
		
			
				
																			
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								by Giorgio   »  Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:46 pm 
			
			
			
			
			Carl White  wrote: ↑ Mon Jan 01, 2024 11:41 pm
5. The USA doesn't go crazy during its election year.
As a non US citizen following US politics from abroad I had the feeling that USA already lost any rationale in the coming elections..... 
Carl White  wrote: ↑ Mon Jan 01, 2024 11:41 pm
Very humble hope:
4. IVO's Quantum Drive demonstrably works.
Same here, very little hopes but what a feat would that be if it proves to work.
 
			
			
									
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								by ladajo   »  Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:57 pm 
			
			
			
			
			I am hoping we make it through another year without getting hit by a pop-up asteroid. The other stuff I can live with.
			
			
									
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								by Betruger   »  Tue Jan 09, 2024 11:27 am 
			
			
			
			
			George Church (or ...) launches hideously expensive but effective pet life extension program.
			
			
									
									You can do anything you want with laws except make Americans obey them.     |     What I want to do is to look up S. . . . I call him the Schadenfreudean Man.