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Never underestimate the ability of people to convince themselves that something they wish was true actually is.
by smacktoward 7y ago
Never underestimate the ability of people to convince themselves that something they wish was true actually is.
- phs318u 7y agoSo true. I remember as a 23 year old nerd when Pons and Fleischman announced cold fusion, I soooo wanted it to be true. I was literally drunk with the thought of the sci-fi possibilities it would bring. If the reality check hadn’t come so quickly and someone semi-reputable had offered a “Mr. Fusion” for the “low, low price of <some number I could just barely afford>“, I may well have been sucked in.
- perl4ever 7y agoI just checked and apparently Pons and Fleischman was in 1989. Was cold fusion a thing in the 70s or very early 80s? Because I vaguely remember a story about a company that claimed to have done it some time before 1984.