People knew how to land on the moon decades before it happened; people were writing engineering studies on it in the 1940s. The missing pieces were obvious "fil

People knew how to land on the moon decades before it happened; people were writing engineering studies on it in the 1940s. The missing pieces were obvious "fill in the blanks" that required no great breakthroughs, though it certainly resulted in many breakthroughs. No such thing as "fill in the blank" engineering to be done to make AGI, Fusion or extreme longevity happen. Nobody knows how to do these things even in principle. Nobody has the slightest clue how to do these things. While we should try; the idea that throwing large amounts of money at such things will do anything but employ large numbers of smart people on something that may be a futile exercise is preposterous. As for $29 billion on Fusion research since 1954: complete and total bullshit. ITER has already cost $20 billion: and that's one project. NIF is pushing $6-7 billion by now; it's predecessor, NOVA was several billion: that's already more than your allegations of a $29billion total spent on fusion research. In reality, we've spent well over a hundred billion on this topic; and it's about as close to fruition now as it was in the 1950s, because our entrenched bureaucracies keep doing the same stupid things. That is the problem with fanboys who want science fiction things that may never exist: you can't count. Counting is important.