If I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Once upon a time, that giant invented the wheel.
GreyEyedGhost
joined 2 months ago
Fusion power isn't commercially practical. We could make a working fusion plant right now. It would suck and provide almost no power, but we could make one. And the difference between the one we can make today that barely works and isn't useful and one that would be useful will be some number of additional incremental steps between where we are today and when that would work. Which is exactly the point. And ~~your~~ the attitude of, well we aren't using it today, so nothing has actually been done, is what I'm criticizing, so thanks for making the point even more obvious.
Fusion power is based on the aeolipile and work by Marie Curie. Just because you don't see the all the incremental steps connecting those devices doesn't mean they aren't there.
An order of magnitude more power in the same form factor in 30 years isn't a tiny increment. It was certainly a number of tiny increments to get there. And for those big leaps you're so desperately looking for, it isn't one little group sitting down together thinking how they're going to do something. There are decades of research building out a number of tiny discoveries, combined by a group at an opportune time to put it all together so everyone can talk about this momentous leap that they, from the outside perceived as something new that sprung out of nothing.
And yet we have somehow gone from rechargeable phone batteries that were about 3 times bigger than the phone I'm typing this on and had a capacity of about 500 mAh to where we are now with the battery that powers my phone being some small part of it and having a capacity of 3000 mAh, with only two major technology changes on the way. Meanwhile, we've been using the same technology for over a decade and the capability keeps getting better. I wonder why that is?
The motorbike can be fun, getting big jumps can be awesome, and you can explore caves easier. Other than that, yeah.
And when you say now, it's been that way since about a year after the game was released.
Care to make a remix of "7 Words You Can Never Say on TV" for blahaj? YOU might abhor all censorship, but your admins don't, and I'm inclined to agree with them.
"The more surface area they have — the more surface they expose while in the air — the farther they go," Marco Belloli, director of the mechanics department at Milan's Politecnico University, told Reuters.
The jokes write themselves.
This is one of the reasons I refused to watch "24". I wasn't going to support a show whose entire premise was "we ignore due process because we're too incompetent to stop the criminals sooner."
If a cop walks into the bathroom now, how do you know the body cam isn't on?
Sorry, didn't notice the different user name.