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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by jdhendrickson on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:56PM (#33988215)
This is incorrect.

Similar to the "we can't make concrete as good as the romans" line of woo. Caveat Emptor

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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by User23 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @10:13PM (#33994681)
I like how you topped off the Roman non sequitur with some Latin. Alas, it is correct. Here[1] is an article about "Fogbank."

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/05/fogbank-america...

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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by Dylan16807 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:04PM (#33995065)
We don't need to make exact replicas of every single old material. "Won't have an effective arsenal within a century" is silly.

And that absolutely was not a non-sequitur.

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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by User23 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:25PM (#33995177)
Thermonuclear weapons have considerably tighter engineering requirements than sidewalks. So much so that the comparison is ludicrous.
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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by Dylan16807 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @02:09PM (#34004125)
Even if you think the comparison is very bad, it's not a non-sequitur.
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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by User23 on Friday December 16, 2022 @10:23AM (#34015554)
"If Roman cement misconceptions exist then the US hasn't forgotten how to make Fogbank" is literally a non sequitur.
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