Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "BBC World Service" channel.

  1. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: You can't imagine how damn hard it now is to get people to see any sense in what is and isn't actual reality. Its truly staggering how many people want to lecture engineers about how to engineer things or tell engineers that something is real because they saw it in a movie or on the internet. Here's 3 examples of things I have seen where ADULTS have been sucked in by this sort of nonsense. I had an argument 2 days ago with a clown who was adamant that Australia already has Small Modular Reactors operating in the country at military bases. Strange thing is that ALL the companies who are promoting SMRs as a FUTURE energy solution are saying they HOPE to be in production by the mid 2030s but somehow according to the clown Australia has manged to time warp a few. Just yesterday I saw that 60 Minutes (America) has done a story on 3D printing for houses. They implied that this young Texas Entrepreneur was doing "ground breaking" and "game changing" work that could solve the housing problem and build a moon base. Its not new technology its been around for at least a decade and there are dozens of companies doing it across the world. Its also a technology that wont work in the near vacuum of the moon. BUT IT MAKES for good TV. BUT my all time suck job for bad technology in the media was the American company Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes. Not only did everyone ignore she was a college drop out AND that her father had been one of the key people at Enron when it collapsed but they all forgot the film "Gattaca" with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman where they had "Hollywood technology" that could instantly do a full genetic map of a person and tell them EVERYTHING that was genetically or medically wrong from a single drop of blood. YES Elizabeth Holmes COPIED her idea from a Hollywood film and people handed valued her at US$9 Billion.
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