Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter...
by paulmd on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @07:55PM
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Fusion in particular has never been funded in line with project requirements, we are significantly below projecting "fusion never" levels and that's exactly what we've gotten.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._historical_fusi...
So it's different from those other projects.
Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter...
by marshmallow_12 on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @09:10PM
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don't worry it just needs war to get there things going. Warfare drives all innovation. I can't think of anything major last century that wasn't developed for military uses. I think we will get another infusion of war in about 18 years when China will start blowing everyone out of antarctica. Government will carry on pretending to care about environment and proceed to release vast amounts of carbon in the South Pole. It's an entirely predictable conflict, yet only China will be partly prepared.
-The Prophecy of The Thirteenth Marshmallow
Re:The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter...
by 6pac3rings on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:53AM
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The pieces on the wargame board are going in place for a round one canceling out of 2B+ population between India, China and expect the thermal nuclear exchange to melt the snow on the high altitude mountainous region keeping them apart.
ARPA was always kind of a jobs program, but nonetheless it created the internet at the same time as NASA was putting a man on the moon, the government was successfully building the interstate highways and Bell Labs was Bell Labs instead of whatever it is now.
Today we get the F-35 and the Big Dig and whatever other money furnace du jour that consumes more resources than the space race but has yet to put a single human on Mars or make fusion work or cure cancer or whatever else things it could have done but hasn't.
Something's different.