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Re:How to destroy the Earth (completely) by Avshalom on Monday June 21, 2010 @08:19AM (#1448558)
You're offering up RISC as an example of vision in a discussion of destroying planets?

Moving Jupiter via fusion candle is vision, RISC is optimization.

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Re:How to destroy the Earth (completely) by stcredzero on Monday June 21, 2010 @09:43AM (#1448755)
The fusion candle idea is neat. It's entertaining because it resembles the thinking behind real engineering. Most of the items from the article are like, "Gee whiz, let's spend about 2 seconds applying knowledge from a 2 second skim of a bunch of Wikipedia entries. Golly, look at the big numbers!"
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