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It's really cool stuff, straight up science fiction, we're living in the future and all that. Buuuut wouldn't it be nice if all that Sciencing that is figuring
by floatrock 6y ago
It's really cool stuff, straight up science fiction, we're living in the future and all that.
Buuuut wouldn't it be nice if all that Sciencing that is figuring out how to tightly control plasma in the most extreme of conditions was applied to something like, say, developing fusion reactors to solve our existential energy problems instead of making faster boom-booms that rain Revelations-style death and destruction down from the heavens?
I mean, don't get me wrong, some technologies can just be weaponized no matter what so bits of the fusion plasma research would still get siphoned off into some black budget somewhere. Let's be realistic here. But wouldn't it be nice if the knowledge trickle-down was going in the direction of solve-our-big-problems first, then worry about the self-apocalyptic boom-booms?
- flerchin 6y agoCivilian applications would be dramatically more efficient air transport, for starters.