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Re:Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft by DennisP on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:35PM (#35889772)
Here's one with an impact: one of my relatives was diagnosed seven years ago with stage 4 melanoma, which a couple decades ago was a one-year death sentence. She got three doses of immunotherapy, her tumors shrank, and last year her oncologist said don't even bother coming in for scans anymore, you're fine.
Re:Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft by radicaldreamer on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:56PM (#35890047)
I'm reminded of a coworker who asked what has been more impactful of an invention to humanity than Steve Jobs and the iPhone and was speechless when I was like how about pasteurization, penicillin, or vaccination?
Re:Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft by relativ575 on Thursday May 11, 2023 @08:19AM (#35901065)
Perhaps many of tomorrow pasteurizations, penicillins, or vaccinations may never materialized if their inventors wouldn't have accessed to information at their fingertips, via their smartphones