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There’s another part of this story that Wikipedia leaves out The other two original Power Mac models had the code names “Piltdown Man” and “Cold Fusion”—not ex
by philwelch 2y ago
There’s another part of this story that Wikipedia leaves out
The other two original Power Mac models had the code names “Piltdown Man” and “Cold Fusion”—not exactly the sort of thing someone like Sagan would want to be implicitly associated with.
- nailer 2y agoWhy would Sagan not want to be associated with cold fusion?
- AlotOfReading 2y agoBecause it was only like 5 years after Fleischmann and Pons sparked headlines in every major newspaper as scientific frauds?
- philwelch 2y agoAfter a few weeks of excitement over the Fleischmann/Pons thing, cold fusion has never since been taken seriously by fusion researchers. It's a dead idea as far as I'm aware.
- kijin 2y agoPerhaps Sagan had undisclosed resentment toward Adobe ColdFusion as well.