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Speculating about their "real" motives is just that; speculation. I'm sorry your project was defunded, but that in itself is not evidence that the facility is
by pjlegato 13y ago
Speculating about their "real" motives is just that; speculation.
I'm sorry your project was defunded, but that in itself is not evidence that the facility is actually a sham.
- skorgu 13y agoNIF is explicitly and publicly a weapons research facility; it's right there on their website[0]. If they happen to do some useful scientific or commercial work then yay but it's a nice byproduct. [0] https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/missions/ https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/missions/
- darkmighty 13y agoHe's not saying the facility is a sham, he is simply saying it's goals are not to generate electricity, it's simply a research tool to provide data to improve empirical models. Those models of course have all sorts of uses, and certainly a big one is nuclear weapon modelling.
- njharman 13y agoYou say "speculation" as if it were a bad thing.
- pjlegato 13y agoI could speculate that space aliens secretly landed in Roswell and took over the government 60 years ago, but without evidence, it's just a story.