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A comment on Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes. Parent comment
Assumptions:
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1. The average commenter here (me!) knows a little about nuclear fusion, and a lot about online tech news.
2. There are no new ideas.
Background:
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This big science project is overbudget, making incremental progress, and the timeline is stretching to forever.
That is incredibly similar to the state of rockets 10 years ago - publically funded, making little progress.
Leap of logic:
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Somewhere in his subconscious, OP pattern-matched to the only big successful science project in the news recently - SpaceX.
But the subconscious no good at talky talky, and OP didn't trace the train of thought, so what came out was "Shoot them into space".
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Assumptions:
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1. The average commenter here (me!) knows a little about nuclear fusion, and a lot about online tech news.
2. There are no new ideas.
Background:
------------------------
This big science project is overbudget, making incremental progress, and the timeline is stretching to forever.
That is incredibly similar to the state of rockets 10 years ago - publically funded, making little progress.
Leap of logic:
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Somewhere in his subconscious, OP pattern-matched to the only big successful science project in the news recently - SpaceX.
But the subconscious no good at talky talky, and OP didn't trace the train of thought, so what came out was "Shoot them into space".