Comments by "r baxter" (@rbaxter286) on "Sabine Hossenfelder" channel.

  1. I helped build 3 in the 70s that were YEARS behind and hundreds of millions over budget and situated in an area with a mushrooming population. Oh, and two were on a river that had flow decreases in the summer so they had to cut power ..., all because the project save tens of millions not having to build a new transmission line for them. Guess who has to pick up the $$$$ for the power they have to 'import' because of that screwup? Oh, oh, and because the utility on two of them ignored their OTHER units, those units got shut down by the NRC for general incompetence and arrogance to regulators. How much more money do you think that utility incompetence cost the rate payers? We'll not discuss their horrendous waste handling practices and the like. All of this was in a era where a huge talent pool of nuclear construction was present, and YET they couldn't get my 3 plants finished near time and budget NOR could the 2 Georgia Power plants get finished on time or budget, but needed an emergency flare to the industry to dig them out of their hole. NOW, guess which utility considered itself qualified to build the nuke vendor's LATEST, GREATEST, FASTEST, SHINIEST PLANTS, yet they STILL went $Billiond and many year OVER?! If you don't have the experience, the industry and the people who got their golden retirements from it will snow you every time with lies, promises, and marketing.
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  2. So, how is a normal taxpayer going to NOT blindly trust science when Big Science has captured the process in the country like the Japanese nuclear industry captured the nuclear regulatory industry?! Should we be running our own labs to do confirmatory experiments and the like? When the whole system, including the checks-and-balances, is fraught with issues, how does the normal person work back up the line to Trust But Verify?
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  3. Went from the Greater Northeast to the Hot Southeast, and what you have observed about skin temperature surprised me, but the overall 'heating' with a heat pump is VERY EASY to live with when you factor in full house AC in Summer and things like 'abnormal' gas backup. I have some 'cooler/hotter rooms', but NOTHING like the ice-on-the-windows attic I grew up in from an oil/radiator house. Thanks for the practical insights, because there is such a lack of such experience in YouTube!!
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  4. Another video that summarizes the important information and gets to the point quickly enough and with enough entertainment value to make me spend the time required. SOOOOO superior to most of the 'science' reporting by writers who are just there for the clickbait and Bury the Lede under many paragraphs of digression ..., for the algorithm ... The Patreon is worth the price to get this early, too!!
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  5. Carrot Ironfoundersson has been assigned you case and would "... like a word, please."
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  6. In the US, I continually get severe weather warnings and NOTHING HAPPENS. The responsible organizations are SOOOOO SCARED of missing something that EVERYTHING is SEVERE!!! That has created a huge Boy Who Cried Wolf syndrome to the point that I use various live radar apps and sites to forecast my own weather. ("When Everyone is Somebodee, Then No One's Anybody!") Of course, I was perspicacious enough to never have to live in any of the Weather Hellholes, like Tornado Alley or the like.
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  7. Always wanted to refit my entry hallway with a Penrose Tiling. Wrote that when first starting the video and wanted the floor like that decades ago. I figured I could set the tiles in the grout by placeing his then-popular book on top of each.
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  8. I really miss having Daniel Dennett around, who would examine and present the actual cases for Consciousness, with this as one chapter, in well-reasoned philosophical terms.
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  9. And, it came about because physicists weren't invited to those kinds of parties? Nothing changed there ..., I can't imagine Sabine dancing on a table top, anywhere in the visible universe.
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  10. The overruns and slipped schedules will be AT LEAST as bad because, just like every project I've been involved with from nuke plants to smaller ones, the vendors will lie about costs, the what-used-to-be-called AE (architect/engineer) group doing the integration design, the engineers and techs on the site, the craft on the site, and anyone else involved will STILL have the tacit desire to LIE THEIR BUTTS OFF to ensure a long gravy train throughout the entire process. And, I'm talking about Lies of Commission and Lies of Omission. In case I hear the ole "but why would they lie and jeopardize the project?!?!", I point to VW and the diesel HIGH CRIME, ENRON and it's idiocy, and Siemens and their HUGE bribery scandals. I can include any number of incompetent/looking out for their paycheck US nuclear projects and equipment vendors/AE Firms, too.
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  11. That is only ONE of the issues with this process, but this is really just a toy for the US nuclear weapons complex for research to support that program. This is not a serious fusion project, as one of my faculty advisors admitted decades ago from his experience with the program.
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  12. Wha?! I thought this 'bubble' burst YEARS AGO, ALREADY?! Even if the tech were ready to scale up, the project planning and long-lead items would eat up a LOT of time in the "next 25 years", as would the startup and initial operation of this kind of tech (think the first generation of 1000Mw nuke plants, if you aren't scarred by that experience, first-hand). This 'New Way' will not be free from ANY of the pitfalls and self-created booby traps of any recent introduction of Big Tech.
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  13. "For the String WAS a Boojum, you see ..."
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  14. I'd rather listen to a video like this one that ties together things I've heard here, before, than go through endless, "water flows downhill and light is really fast" useless background and recap (i.e., bloviation) I get in so many others. Let them complain, I really don't care. I prefer The Encyclopedia Galactica to the HHGTTG, and don't need the low density, but so much more talking.
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  15.  @NicholasSullivan-tk8zt  Plank lengths depend on the tape measure you use and how good you are at guesstimating the unmarked length between the actual gradations on the tape. I can easily see how irrationality can enter into it.
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  16.  @lobabobloblaw  Ah, reminds me of the South Park Prius episode, swelling on the self-flatulence sniffing of Prius owners ...
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  17. PLEASE, I've just learned the arms aren't coherent structures that the stars turn around the core as a unit!, that they're a lot like the density wave of cars going up when a lane closes or there's a gaper block, with density going down after, well, after maybe something cuz the accident that cause the gaper block has already been cleared up. Now you've got me trying to remember right-hand-rule stuff about angular momentum!! This is supposed to be a TGIF, not a Oh-No-It's-Friday!!
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  18. It's applying "Quantum, Quantum, Quantum!" (as Angela Collier says) to neurobiology in a methodical way. "It's Fine ..." That's how Artificial Ignorance would answer your question?
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  19. They will have problems MAINTAINING that vacuum in a Production/Commercial environment over hundreds of km in THE REAL WORLD.
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  20. Great ... UNTIL you have the stress corrosion cracking in vessel nozzles that affected ALL the units at the same time because of a common mode failure in the design. But, it looks like a lot of engineers here have fooled their bosses into thinking they're overworked, while they seem to have a lot of time to 'comment'.
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  21. Except it was the very scientists who designed and implemented AI, not the engineers??
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  22. The 'build it in your basement' fools in this sub-thread have no idea what they're talking about.
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  23. Yeah, what THEY said!!😊 Metaphors are for English majors, not for hard science with actual math available to describe Reality directly.
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  24. I assume your level of expertise is equal to that of the people saying it can be done? I assume you level of expertise in risk analysis and management meets things like the DOE orders used at their various nuclear sites? "Lousy way" doesn't mean it WON'T be done.
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  25. When will we have the same kind of 'End of Year Reivew of Physics Predictions' that we have for the psychics? It's be nice to see all the 'The Sky is Falling'/'The Standard Model is Broken, FINALLY!' videos and papers, along with the journals publishing them ..., with statistical analysis of 'reliabitlity'?
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  26. Do call us when they build a train between some economically relevant distance, as in the maglev saving enough time to justify the PRACTICAL issues contained in building a maglev quasi-hyperloop. This really sounds like the LLNL 'fusion breakthrough' that doesn't include the power used to pump the HUGE bank of lasers, or without talking about the economics of the fuel, the fuel loading mechanism, or the consequences when any of that FAILS UNDER LOAD. Try bumbling over to Thunderf00t's channel for a meaningful, exhaustive examination of Space Karen's hyperloop, and then apply all that here. He highlights the PRACTICAL issues of maintaining vacuums even in a lab environment, much less for hundreds of km, and the HUGE problems when you get an 'upset' like a defective joint catastrophically failing with a pressure pulse propagated down the tube. I find it interesting that I rarely see people with EXPERIENCE MAINTAINING ANY KIND OF BIG MACHINERY GIVING THEIR OPINIONS ON HOW MUCH SUCH A SYSTEM WILL COST TO KEEP RUNNING AND WITH WHAT REGULARITY.
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  27. The old rule of Project Management is "Better, Faster, Cheaper: Pick any TWO!" I doubt China will make it stick without huge "Unintended Consequences".
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  28. Math is a tool that exists in The Universe. If we cannot 'prove' math, then there ARE unproveable things in The Universe.
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  29. And, the rebuttals sound like Employment Applications from those hoping to hop on the ever-almost-here Traveling Nuclear Circus payroll. Been there, done that, bailed on it to finally get a legitimate, ethical profession.
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  30. Just realized, WHAT AN EPIC EXCUSE!! "I can't hand in my homework because the NSA classified it and took it away, Mrs. Krabappel-Flanders!"
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  31. Sorry, but how is Artificial IGNORANCE supposed NOT to have bigger problems?! ("It's a JOKE, son!")
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  32. Funny how the only thing that is known to exist inside those gaps are the myriad of Gods that Man has invented, instead of the billions of Men that the Gods have invented?
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  33. Thanks for alerting us to a new explanation. Maybe one of these ideas will provide some impetus to find better and newer data to lead to a new hypothesis even if the original purpose is not served.
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  34. Well, philosophers trying to do science normally just end up eating the Play-Doh, while scientists doing philosophy only do so AFTER inventing something useful. I'll excuse the scientist ANY day.
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  35. Yes, and I'm always suspicious of Loonies, too.
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  36.  @gwentarinokripperinolkjdsf683  I have read the Science report in the copy I get every week. Have you? I worked in the nuclear industry and have had an interest in this for years, including past analysis provided by the Union of Concerned Scientist by experts in the nuclear weapons field. I've got enough of a background to know the particulars of the analysis and/or the bona fides of the experts waving flags. These references are out there, but you have to look for them. Just because this kind of issue is 'inconvenient' is not a valid reason to ignore them.
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  37. ... it just needs to look intelligent enough to convince Management and to give Marketing some buzz words to use ...
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  38. I've often observed that a lot of 'innovators' and 'contrarians' (e.g., FLERFs) are unable to even 'think outside the coffin'.
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  39. Wow, this is like the time I had to buy a new set of Steam Tables because someone recalculated values and came up with differing graphs for the T-s diagrams ..., or is that too old a reference for anyone but the original steam punks ...
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  40. Only if they were feckless enough to get caught. The Uberwald Igors were never so foolish as to go down with a 'sinking' castle.
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  41. "It's not a lensed galaxy, it's actually just two very galaxies near each other in our line-of-sight ..., D'OH!!" "It's not nice to fool (with) Mother Nature!"
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  42. What ISN'T ad hoc?
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  43. [... something about 'rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible', I think ...]
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  44. Note the pronoun "YOU"?!
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  45. Yeah, because AI is really EXACTLY what a spreadsheet represents, but it's already been done and nobody can make a big buck off it anymore. The issue is, how do you make sure the product is CORRECT when the way it was made is using a black box?! I have had to proof check multipage spreadsheets by hand for REGULATORY COMPLIANCE in hazardous and worse waste transport and disposal, so how will black boxes be checked for fidelity?!
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  46. THANK YOU for presenting a meaningful interpretation of Godel's Theorum, and not falling for Penrose's "And Then a Miracle Occurs" B/S! Read his book, wasn't impressed, except by its weight. NEXT quantum use case is MAKING A HUGE RETURN ON INVESTMENT! PERIOD!! That's why Google is there with it's slavering dragonfly nymph mandibles triggered to fire at any possible spinoff FOR THEIR STOCKHOLDERS' BENEFIT. This is not "For Duty and Humanity!", as described by "Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard" , but is "For Stockholders and Vulture Capitalists!".
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  47. Oh great, the yard is full of 'unsightly' weeds, there's a new homeless cat looking for food, and NOW I'VE GOT PERNICIOUS AI IN MY SCIENCE! You are worse than my Home Owners Association with the angst you cause me!!
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  48. PBS to me is like New Scientist ..., I've given up on it multiple times when the retractions in it outnumber the articles ..., now I stick to AAAS and Science ...
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  49.  @eyeofthasky  Their formulaic "high-school science class" presentation style is abysmal, too.
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  50. Let Poland be the SOLE update. The 'experts' and 'engineers' are either INCOMPETENT and/or ECONOMICALLY ILLITERATE and/or ... ... SNIFFING OUT A PAYCHECK ... as they have REPEATEDLY DEMONSTRATED OVER MORE THAN 50 YEARS! AND, GE?! They are the same who designed that execrable containment on their FIRST TRY of the BIG BWRs at Fukushima, too!! That containment was a running sore in the nuclear industry for DECADES with structural flaws and the like. The US DOE has just CANCELLED an SMR installation, and I don't see ANY small utility being able to support or sustain INTEREST to support the infrastructure for nuclear power, technically and regulatory ..., even with the NRC trying to crawl to their RETIREMENT with JUST ONE MORE series of regulatory jobs. Small Modular Reactors (spit) will be 'economical' just like the B/S 'advanced reactors' were 'economical' in the US ..., until NOBODY COULD AFFORD THEM except some poor fools here in Georgia. Even the Good Ole Boy ethical cesspit of South Carolina CANCELLED the reactors. SMRs are just another B/S 'Murican PR and MARKETING Campaign by people who can't make a buck elsewhere. Nuclear power is back wherever the NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY AND LOBBY ARE STRONGEST AND $$$$. If you haven't worked IN THE INDUSTRY, you really need to get some 'expert' opinions from people who have the inside info on this that is not particularly 'bright and shiny'. The tech is nifty, but the continued support required and the need to maintain small groups of expert knowledge have ALWAYS been an albatross around utilities' necks. Let's finally put a stake in the heart of the Admiral Rickover Zombie. You do an excellent, unsurpassed job on Real Science, why don't you practice some of the 'attempted falsification' that makes Real Science so robust by focusing it on this Big Business tech ghoul?! The OLD units may have been mistakenly removed from service, BUT THAT IS NO REASON TO SEW ANOTHER CROP OF NUCLEAR DRAGONS' TEETH TO POISON THE FUTURE!!
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  51. I'm back from 4 years and 2 weeks, and Armageddon has made all this moot ...
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  52. Ground up unicorn horns absorb even faster and at a higher final loading, but that is nothing compared to the performance of Ground Red Panda Thigh Bones! McKinsey is investing heavily in breeding farms right now ..., using OTHER PEOPLES' MONEY ...
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  53. If Air Products, with their vast experience in creating, handing, and transporting industrial gasses, isn't in with a product in The Empire of Vulture Capitalism that is the state of Texas, then it's time to bail by everyone except people with huge egos and big pockets (European companies with massive government subsidies?). Oh look, your later reporting sorta bears that out! I'd say the BIG Problem is a lot of cheap INVESTMENT $$$$ looking for a place to go, but all the GOOD, PRUDENT investments have been taken for years. The investment firms gotta make their service fees SOMEHOW! The BIG, BIG Problem is were at the end of an economic cycle and INNOVATION IS DYING before the start of the next cycle; INNOVATION drives the cycles, and this is a great predictor of the end of the recent past's fairly stable growth period.
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  54.  @residentweevil6371  Etymologically, Engineer originated in the 14th century, scientist in the 19th century. Practically, I'd say they were coeval in general circumstances.
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  55. "... and then, a Miracle Occurs ..." Physics?
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  56. This was another PR stunt with no real interest in space, but NOW it was being made for the profit of a VULTURE CAPITALIST WHO HELPED BY THE RECENT US ELECTION FOR TRUMP, WHO IS NOW NEUTERING US SCIENCE AND RAIDING THE US GOVERNMENT FOR THEIR OWN EVEN MORE EGREGIOUS PROFIT?! Have you seen the cretinous Bezos while he was stiff-arming to William Shatner on his flight, too? Maybe if you were a 'Murican Scientist you'd understand the FAR more complex outrage over this that with other such flights. You're context is very much missing the real anger that is becoming focused on this entire PR schtick-and-schlock beyond what would normally be expressed.
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  57. If they got no kidneys on the other end, what's the point? BTW, let us know when Space Karen's rocket ever finishes a REAL mission, not crosses a moved goalpost. And, might I elaborate on your kinda sneer at people who don't like RAM being launched into space by referring you to the SAME STARSHIPS' UTTER FAIL? You can't trust Engineers who are paid by Bidnessmen with anything like shipping large pieces of RAM into orbit.
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  58. He sounds like the people I knew (not me, no, NOT ME) who didn't want to do the homework to get a correct answer in either his math or applied-physics classes, and felt insulted when his professors graded his work appropriately. I have been trained that answers with uncertainty calcs, as appropriate, are really necessary. I'd suggest he be required to furnish appropriate theory-based uncertainty calculations to show his work is actually useful instead of assigning a 'ghost in the math' hypothesis. You know, asserting that it's QM level effects in the brain cells that 'create' consciousness, which conveniently side steps having to be the systemic analysis of neural networks. WOW, you actually ended up in the same place I did!! Wrote that Penrose allusion before you got to it in your presenta6tion, so in terms of local time and variables, so I claim local credit for it! Unless you were psychically willing me to converge on your conclusion?! That would be Evil ..., Pure EEEEVILLL!
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  59. Six years away? Wow, that's what my advisor told me several decades ago. That's being really economical/recyclable with The Truth. Personally, I've heard The Monopole Confinement Scheme will be out in 4 years ..., so they'll scoop this bipole scheme by a couple years!
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  60. Think proliferation, slave wages paid, and ACTUAL COSTS ..., after you buy a clue ...
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  61. I've heard all this same self-serving moaning, b****ing, and complaining by the engineers in the nuclear industry when the public started realizing all the promises from the industry and the engineers enabling it were at least one-to-two orders of magnitude OVERPRICED AND NEVER DELIVERED IN TIME OR QUANTITY. That also goes for the utter misrepresentations from the rent-a-gantt-chart, Project Management Industry Traveling Road Show. Keep up letting us know what the prestige and make-work projects are ..., as well as the bad AND GOOD science. The grousings you hear are from those who are PROFITING FROM THE STATUS QUO! This is turning into Alchemy R Us and The Race for The Philosophers' Stone 'research project' ..., where the gold coins from the prince keep disappearing down the rat hole because of, he is assured, a canonical, accepted part of 'Seeding the Process".
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  62. Yeah, and it was the Ford way, the General Motors way, the IBM way, the ...
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  63. Yeah, moveable petal covers that move ..., in space ..., nothing like moving parts in space, where Less Means More for maintainability and operating costs. The self assembly and other basic science does sound like a much better idea for space, where simple actions build larger structure with robots simpler than humans able to do the heavy/repetitive lifting.
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  64. We have better robots, they just don't, and CAN'T, do what humans do better than humans, but they do what ROBOTS do better than humans. Like moving through deadly radiation fields to work and exploring the surface of Mars for YEARS at a time and lifting car chassis subassemblies weighing hundreds of pounds and aligning them for accurate and precise welding/assembly. The issue is you are defining "Better" in terms of what humans CAN do, not WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE!
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  65. ... and I think a lot of gummints have already done a lot of research in 'condensed matter physics', especially at the two ends of the Curve of Binding Energy.
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  66.  @Rahul_G.G.  Yeah, just like "String Theory/Nuclear Fusion is just 10 years away, folks!" At some point, the settlers are going to realize the cavalry is still back in the fort getting it ready for a politician to visit, which is certainly the more important thing to do.
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  67. The Climate Denier Movement in the US is pretty much given visibility because it MOTIVATES POLITICAL ACTION IN A SECTOR THAT HAS ENOUGH VOTES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. It is pure opportunism in a political group that needs to be kick in the pants to get out and vote, and playing to their ignorance has no MINUS in the overall highly segregated political scene. The Venn Diagram for Right Wing Politics and Climate Belief is just the Bigger Circle. BTW, that was posted BEFORE you reported the "Well, Duh, Yeah!!" reports you mentioned. The FACTS don't matter because it is an emotional response of The Tribe, that will translate into votes because just like Barbie said, "Math is HARD [tee-hee]" so too voting on Climate Change instead of voting Party of Greed is just "Too HARD [yee-ha!]". You gotta live here with the Blue Collar to appreciate it.
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  68.  @spaceranger3728  Utilities hire sons, daughters, nephews, nieces, college fraternity/sorority friends, prior-vendors of the plants ..., just THINK NEPO and you have the idea.
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  69. ..., and IBM's money-grubbing management will sell this idea, like they did Lenovo, to a consortium that turns out to be based in China, which will weaponize it immediately but 'create stockholder value' for at least another quarter of management stock options and yearly bonuses ..., until business computing collapses cuz RSA compromise ...
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  70. If String Theory fizzles any more, it will eventually be found as the best way for predicting something like Financial Market Behavior as an unexpected application, like so many other times the mathematics are so elegant, but were invented/bothered to death for the wrong reason.
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  71. So, is this data center ALSO going to house the ACTUAL INTELLIGENCE that will have to check the output with almost the same effort as the AI?! HAVE YOU FALLEN FOR THE 'CONTROLLED FUSION IN 10 YEARS SCAM' YET AGAIN???!!! Literally everything they said could just as easily been attributed to Controlled Nuclear Fission, Nuclear Power, The Dot Com Future, etc. It's ALL MARKETING!
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  72. Great summary of knock on effects of a Project that is proposed because of the cascade of financial benefits vs. the actual Final Great Experiment. The Chinese project sounds like just another Belt and Road rat hole that a changing Chinese economy and society will not support.
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  73. An actor is a person who needs someone else to tell them what to say to SEEM real. The REAL issue here is he needs a FAR better educated script writer, script writing notoriously being the sheltered workshop for Word Salad 'Chefs'.
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  74. I expect this kind of 'explanation' from Kryten 2X4B-523P or 'Grant Naylor', not from a degree'd physicist earning a living from it.
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  75. Is it that choice is not VISIBLE, but partly hidden by pre-programmed past training, but by training that can at least encode RESPONSIBLE, HUMANISTIC IDEALS? "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." is a FAR better course of action until it is conclusively shown there is no Free Will in any form. Physics CONSTRAINS but does not DETERMINE! But, thanks for the brain fodder and enlightened thoughts! (BTW, you're sounding like the ole ... Pinto: OK, so that means that our whole solar system could be like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being Giggle. This is nuts! That means that one tiny atom in my fingernail could be... Jennings: ...could be one tiny little universe! Pinto: Can I buy some pot from you? You are also sounding like you are having vacation/hiking epiphanies that need some reflection when all the oxygen is going to the brain and not being wasted holding selfie sticks and avoiding the trail hazards)
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  76. Most of the 'solutions' are just postponing them until 'we' are dead, but lived a good live off The Poor.
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  77. Gates is a crook who flogged BAD software as complete, copied other people's ideas, guided a corporation that gave us software that deliberately sabotaged other software, lied and subverted the internet through Explorer, and never Finished Anything Useful as far as I am concerned. Bill Gate's is only as valuable as his MONEY, NOT HIS IDEAS!
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  78. No Rennaisance cuz no de'Medici families out there who are STILL too foolish enough to fund it, given the past fiscal irresponsibility and fraud of the corporations responsible for 'implementing' it ..., corporations chock full of engineers, too ... Sorry, but the history is there along with the ledgers. Been in the industry, and for 'reopening' it really is a nightmare to get just the safety basis updated and the physical plant certified to actually match the 'assumptions', etc. NEVER trust an Engineer with MONEY!!! Sorry, this is Comic Book Project Management with some Criminal Fraud hidden within!
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  79. Gell-Mann Amnesia. If he was UTTER FAIL on the first prediction, and has yet to deliver of Artificial Stupidity/Fake Intelligence, who cares what he has to say NOW!? That also applies to the platform that pumps his drivel out to the public, UNLESS there is some skeptical review of what he has said!!
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  80. So sad that 99.44% of 'Muricans can barely wrap their heads around the 'Lies We Tell To Children' version of the intricacies of Newtonian gravity. Even worse that they couldn't calculate the 'value' of The Freaky Action at a Distance even if you put all the numbers into the right places for them in the equation. They are in such a rush for The (Madison Avenue) 'Murican Dream that they ignore getting a education (not training), and so in a rush for Jeezus Salvation that they miss the absolute wonder of Reality. Of course, Madison Avenue and Capitalism also ties their health care and opportunities to live a good live by almost iron bands by making it almost mandatory that the 99% are Wage Slaves to the Wealth and Leisure of the !%. Any wonder the trap is so difficult to escape? Oh, and because teachers need to give grades, they need to give tests, and giving 'calculate a number' and 'spit out an easy to grade number' tests is FAR easier than giving an essay question that asks them to compare and contrast Newton and Einstein. I really felt a bulb light up when I finally understood how Einstein made sense in a qualitative way, but I fear the next step to resolve problems with gravity vs QM and cosmological 'dark whatever' issues will weaken the elegance of Einstein in a way that gives us just another army of Archimedes Plutonium Science Quacks.
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  81. Reminds me all of the Neo-Liberal Crooks who always justify their Greed and Rapacity by asserting, "A business would NEVER make really OBVIOUSLY BAD DECISIONS just to meet the unrealistic short-term forecasts that WE, THE NEO-LIBERAL CROOKS make to get a paycheck for our investment properties and car-collection garages with car elevators in them!!" Making scientific 'success' (and tenure) merely on a paper and citation count is LAZY oversight, too, with much less concern for continued SCIENTIFIC excellence. Teaching is the job of universities and college just as much as research, but guess which activity brings in the $$$$ which get 'academic management' promotions?!
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  82. Think there was a computer war in Star Trek where it had people just walking into disintegrators, or bio-digestors. Sorry, this is really scary because some 'consultants' will pimp anything for a buck, even if their 3rd and 4th retirement homes are vapourized.
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  83. I am an engineer who ended up in project and risk management, along with 'facility support' babysitting of Operations and Maintenance. What I'm worried about is I was in a government facility that was far more concerned about safety and effective risk management. However, I'm forever reading about possibly disastrous situations allowed to fester in 'The Real World' where Vulture Capitalism rules and has insulated The Corner Office from their malfeasance they use their 'inferiors' to implement. Boeing and ENRON are perfect examples of that culture that exists but is often well obscured by "... The Man/Space Karen Behind the Curtain". So much of the World is only kept safe by over-educated people in key positions, who are often cut loose because "Our Org Chart says this is an over-staffed position", where the 'over-staffed' was determined by a consultant who was utterly unqualified, but who schmoozed Management the best. You know, the kind of people who helped the South Carolina utilities present a 'New Wave Project Schedule' for their 'New Wave Nuclear Plant' ..., helped them using a SALES BROCHURE as their technical reference and their ONLY reference.
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  84. You're getting through to some people. I stopped after your initial statement of the situation and came up with the same important point you made, but I added the explanation that the scientist had a grad assistant screen their mail and make responses if appropriate! I credit you for all of that! You are not just annoying all the pigs!!
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  85. A Cybertruck owner said it was so?! And, Weinstein the Grifter says, "Hold that thought!" Well, now you got me interested because all those drones over the US East Coast seem to have disappeared as if they were just a radio/internet hoax ..., like the War of the Worlds .... Note, please, how well 'classifying' the math stopped thermonuclear technology from spreading around the World ..., ask the boys at The Progressive, and look at how that entire issue resolved itself. Also, sounds like a lot of physics 'research' spends its time Drinking inside the Error Bar, like the nuclear engineers in the old Beta Bar.
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  86. It's not, but the tech boys, project managers, financiers, politicians, and bureaucrats who screwed up the last 'nuclear wave' didn't have hucksters selling this particular brand of nuclear hokum until now.  @JZsBFF 
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  87. Once again, like Cretinists/Idiotic Designers/Professional Religion Clowns, you have to carefully pick your Initial Assumptions to come out at 'The Right Answer'/Invisible Sky Daddy. A really back door attack on science by the Vulture Capitalists, who poison everything they touch. They plant their Greed is Good TheoLOLogy in the minds of failed/failing/unproductive science 'workers' who are driven by needs to publish to demonstrate their 'worth', just like everyone else in the rest of the World is judged as successful by the amount of money they can grift from others. Hence the grifting science journal editors.
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  88. Yeah, but DARPA is still in the business of Death From Above, not Share and Enjoy!
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  89. Been using one to heat AND cool for over 30 years. Like a plug-in hybrid, it has natural gas backup and most people have an electric or gas water heater. Still it's a lot more comfortable than the oil & window ac I grew up around. If you want to live in the Great Frozen North, your probably killing the planet/dumping your sins on underdeveloped countries so you can have that good ole European civilization. Just a hand grenade to get people thinking.
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  90.  @gwentarinokripperinolkjdsf683  Are you a taxpayer?
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  91.  @jesan733  That kind of thinking is exactly how you end up with yellow-and-magenta tape and yellow plastic fencing off and covering downtown Manhatten. Tell me again how 'lousy' it is to use mantles from Coleman camping equipment to try and build a reactor, and that's why 'nobody' would do it.
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  92.  @brylozketrzyn  Doesn't matter when you have to convert fizzle-spread radioactive material into $$$$$$$$ for cleanup in a site like DC or NYC.
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  93. You mean like the $$$$$$ BILLIONS DOE wasted on the never-finished MOX plant? The one even the French were laughing at the American Rubes about, as they took the money to build it??
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  94. Now, apply everything "Sabine Sez" to the nuclear power game, from the grifting vendors to the craft doing the code welding and concrete placement. That is EXACTLY what I've pointed out in the past. Project Managers, System Designers, Equipment Vendors, Field Engineers, Startup Engineers, Operators and all the people who point to professional certificates, code stamps, university degrees, and government (self-)certifications are just as venal as the 'scientists' Sabine is expressing her doubts about. The problem with the nuclear industry is they've managed to neuter the Quality Assurance and Quality Control programs and policies that were intended to at least SOMETIMES police the industry in the name of Self-Policing AND LOWER COSTS! You know, the kind of regulatory capture that gave us Fukushima, and is clearly documented in the final report on that debacle.
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  95. Please be more accurate in titles, like "Politicians Sue to Keep Americans Misinformed". That is a lot more engaging for people not just interested in American Bashing.
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  96. Thanks for covering this story which would normally get tamped down by the people trying to make a cheap $$$ on this tech. And, sorry, what is your practical experience cleaning up nuclear material, as in even that spread about from a fizzle? The best analysis I've read from the 1990s pretty much ended up with an abandoned Manhattan. I now forget the gentleman's name, but he was an acknowledged expert in the field and worked with the UCS. BTW, that NC professor is just looking to keep his job teaching fools ..., er ..., eager students the guild secrets of nuclear engineering. Just another enrichment boondoggle in the US which the DOE will be left holding the bag on when this all blows over ..., like the previous processes people have tried to use this Left Behind DOE site for ..., piggy-backing on the local dead economy and past risk/safety analysis for the site. A lot like the multi-billions $$$$$$$$$ DOE spent on the recent MOX fuel facility in South Carolina ..., which failed as everything but an anchor to make sure SC doesn't drift out to sea ...
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  97. Wolfram has no 'posse' to follow him and create momentum for serious rebuttals or accommodations between his model and The Standard Models. Which physicist in that presentation he made have a career so open and free that they can afford to go over and check out what he's saying? I'm sure they are all so stove-pipped into their own Dueling Community that they can't afford to quickly change tack, nor can they emotionally give up their entire 'sunk investment' in the actual- and quasi-orthodoxy.
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  98. AGI will initially be powered by a controlled nuclear fusion plant's output.
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  99. Great program. There are so many issues I've noticed have very arcane causes, and I CLEARLY remember the 'sugar-free' Gummi Bears along with the Amazon reviews of their effects on many people. I wondered as you went through your talk if those Gummi Bears were in the list of booby-trapped foods! Thanks for the head's up, I'll be reading ingredients, especially the chocolate-covered gingerbread & apricot jam cookies we stash away every holiday season when they come available in Lidl/Aldi!
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  100. Once again, as with nuclear power 'renaissance', the problem isn't the tech, it's the PROJECT MANAGEMENT and the PROJECT MANAGEMENT ASSUMPTIONS THE PROJECTS ARE BASED ON. Build a better class of people being HONEST AND PROFESSIONAL in the project management, and The World will beat a path to your door! Been living with successful and UTTER FAIL in project management space, and thems the facts! Thank you for the updates and I hope things improve. (And, inertial confinement are make-work for weapons designers and the weapons programs, not a way to make power)
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  101. Yeah, all over Europe, which really shouldn't have decommissioned the existing stations but let them run to EOL, then not replace. What's the chance the 'economic and technical expertise' has improved ANY since those prior disastrous decisions?? I wouldn't trust the faceless, never-prosecuted bureaucrats and engineers, all lying tacitly and explicitly, to make a competent decision. They're all too tied up in ensuring their future paychecks and mortgages and car payments and kids to higher education to trust with the REAL MONETARY DECISIONS. I've seen it happen from the outside AND inside. Technical 'experts' and 'project managers' will always defend their actions using obfuscation and smokescreens, regardless of how 'holy and honest' too many people assume they are.
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  102. BTW, FLERFs DON'T CARE how cameras work. All they care about is that somebody, ANYBODY, is listening to them bleat from their otherwise empty pasture. FLERF-dum is a SOCIAL CAT LITTER BOX, not an alt.science.astro news group.
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  103. Once again, assuming the existing laws are 'The Right Stuff' seems to me to beg the question "But what about the Unknown 'Unknowns'?" Probably more interesting to continue to investigate why "The Right Stuff" might NOT be the end-all. Why are we not as ignorant of some evanescent experimental phenomena leading us to be ignorant of the Entire Universe as Newton was ignorant of Dark Matter and Dark Energy? BTW, what is that driving phenomena for the "And, Then a Miracle Occurs!" Expansion for the Big Bang?
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  104. Gonna have to ask a book store friend when this gets moved to the remainder pile ..., then the hazardous waste bin.
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  105. ..., especially or until you add in maintenance with something besides 'space unicorns' or other fairy tales.
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  106. I think I'll invest my quantum inspired dollars to sink into quantum inspired investments ..., DAMN, counted them and they all turned into roubles instead of ones!
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  107. Yeah, Ganesh and Siva will be on the patent application, too?
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  108. So, the report highlights some of the UTTER SCAM that nuclear power is, from engineers who lie about costs on to project managers who can't manage them, either. Perhaps that was demonstrated when, as I noted elsewhere, the APR project in South Carolina was sunk with HUGE time and $$$ overruns ..., and then they had to admit they made their Project Schedule they showed to SC government officials base on SALES PROCHURES AN PROMOTIONAL LITERATURE FROM THE MARKETING DEPARTMENT OF THE PLANT'S VENDORS?! I worked building and bringing on line some of the last large nukes in the US back in the 1980s/90s, and I saw the incompetence and fraud involved at vendors, AE firms, constructors, utilities, etc., as in ALL SEGMENTS OF THOSE PROJECTS. I see no reason to think ANYTHING has changed, and Georgia Power and SC utilities proved it for the "NEWER, FASTER, BETTER" APR scam, and now you show the same for SMRs. I wish it was not so, but that's the reality.
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  109. I respect your opinion and enjoy your presentations in SCIENCE and RESEARCH. I now live in a area where the BEST NUCLEAR HAS TO OFFER HAS DROPPED AN EXCESS BALANCE OF $6 BILLION TO $7 BILLION ON THE RATEPAYERS BECAUSE OF THEIR INCOMPETENCE. ARE YOU GOING TO PITCH IN TO HELP PAY THAT OFF?! AND, any profits from selling 'excess capacity' that these plant's generate WILL GO TO STOCKHOLDER, NOT BE PRO-RATED TO THE RATEPAYERS to pay off that criminal cost blowout. ADDITIONALLY, THAT IS $7 BILLION OVER THE BUDGET, NOT THE actual many MORE $BILLIONS that the plant ACTUALLY COST. Oh, AND THAT IS NOT INCLUDING THE $BILLIONS WASTED ACROSS THE RIVER FOR THE SAME PLANTS CANCELLED BECAUSE OF SPIRALING COST?! How much are YOU going to pitch in to pay for those plant, which were built with the ALLEGEDLY BEST OF CURRENT PRACTICE, NOT THE OLD GENERATION WHEN AND HOW ARE YOU GOING TO HELP PAY MY ELECTRIC BILL AND ESPECIALLY THE BILLS OF THE MILLIONS OF POOR PEOPLE IN THE STATE?! HOWEVER, until you present me with evidence you have any experience running a PROJECT of the breadth and depth of constructing a nuclear power plant, and until you present evidence you have any experience in bringing a NEW, HYPED-AND-OVER-MARKETED tech like the current crop of GET RICH QUICK SCHEMES that are small reactor, and until you present any evidence you have any experience in safely and EFFICIENTLY operating and maintaining nuclear reactors you are merely PARROTING THE SALES BROCHURES OF A BUNCH OF DISREPUTABLE AND/OR CLUELESS CON ARTISTS. I was in The Industry for many years and helped bring the last few plants on-line in the US. Even at that time, it was a huge bunch of clowns and incompetent project managers when there were decades of experience just lolling about to be applied. Again, what is YOUR experience, especially dealing with the LIES and CROOKEDNESS of Big Industry, especially with the people pushing it like GE. BTW, please spare us the tales of Japanese nuclear, as Fukushima SHOWS CLEARLY that the Japanese Nuclear Regulator was in the pocket of the utilities. That is what gave us Fukushima. PLEASE go back to the things you excel in. You do not excel in the financials and the costs to the ratepayers, LIKE SO MANY TECH AND SCIENCE DON'T Oh, and until YOU are going to set up a Patreon for all the ratepayers ripped off by these boondoggles, by the US practice of state-based utility management ,YOU have no dog in this fight, so PLEASE BUTT OUT! These plants are LOCAL burdens with NON-LOCAL profits, so you can just go back to your research, please.
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  110. Like I've observed with all those Stormtoopers running around with HOW MUCH ENERGY stored in batteries to run laser guns, which obviously have to support quick discharge, I don't want to be around inside a Star Ship when someone bangs into a doorknob and damages the battery case to cause an "Inadvertent discharge" that immediately immolates everything in a 10 meter radius. Same goes for cars and other devices with such batteries in the current situation when someone merely hops a curb and wreaks HAVOC in the GENERAL area. At that point, how more dangerous are hydrogen cars that at least pleasant, puffy white clouds when they "inadvertently discharge"?!
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  111. Building an accelerator and having to get it right was not really the vibe of a bunch of No Hopers bungling about space any more than showing the construction AND the routine mining operations of the ship, itself, would have been. The real worry is can these people get anybody to pay for it when I'm sure there are actually important studies left hanging out in research phase-space?
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  112. Although we do not agree on NEW CONSTRUCTION nuclear power, I 100% agree that is was utterly abysmal the way a small group of fanatics in W Germany managed to shut down the entire EXISTING nuclear capacity without have a reasonable plan in place to SECURE the energy future without reliance on historically criminal regimes like Russia and, perhaps, Saudi Arabia. The same sort of idiocy arose in California, and then they got the lesson of buying power when they really needed it from the CROOKS AT ENRON. And, let's face it, California is far more likely to make a real go of it in solar than Germany in at least the climate for the generation. I'm at the point I don't care if smart people 'blame' me for global warming AS LONG AS THEY ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT ..., do something OTHER THAN BLEAT AND WHINE TO SHORE UP THEIR POLITICAL POWER AND PRESERVE THEIR PIGGY SNOUT IN THE FEED TROUGH.
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  113. Yeah, what EVERYBODY needs is an economy with AI "doing all the work", the 99% of the population serving as AI lackeys, 1%ers' house servants, military bullet sponges, or 1%ers' hunting prey. And, with no real economy anymore, because even the 1% are invested in companies WHO HAVE NO CUSTOMERS and the government can't collect taxes from anyone (especially the 1%ers), the whole house of cards collapses and we go back to hunter/gatherer!
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  114. In a country of LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL, like the US, a hybrid makes sense for saving on the majority of the time travel IS in stop-and-go with some longer trips mixed in. Until PURE EVs get a capacity to travel a GUARANTEED 400 miles to 500 miles, with RESERVE CAPACITY, in the WORST Winter and Summer weather, and with a GUARANTEED recharger for a 700 miles to 800 miles in two day range, EVs really are just TOYS for people WHO CAN OWN TWO CARS, AT LEAST! I'm not against "Small" nuclear plants IF THEY PAY THEIR WAY WITHOUT THE GOVERNMENT HAVING TO PICK UP THE 'CATASTROPHIC' INSURANCE COVERAGE! But that won't happen, cuz POLITICAL DARK CASH CONTRIBUTIONS BY INVESTED PARTIES.
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  115. Try looking at the financial wrack and ruin in the nuclear fission industry up to the present!! In the US, if the government didn't serve as the ultimate backstop for liability purposes [and other governmental subsidies], it would have never got off the ground or been sustained. I'm sure ole Rickover knew he needed a commercial industry, too, just as a smokescreen for his programs.
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  116. Very important video from you for so many of us! A lot of us never got as far as we wanted because the 'push' and 'pull' of the Professional Food Chain/Ladder of Achievement was never explained to most and/or was NOT a part of our goals because of our own personalities and character. Keep 'splaining the world of physics to us that so many of all the other 'high academics/achievers' are obviously too important to 'splain to us. Have a relative who is stuck in the grind of Research, doing the politiking of grant schmoozing so much of their time that they rarely have any time off not attached to their lab by a chain. I've watched them change from someone who really resented being not having any free time to do what they wanted into someone who has been mauled and beaten into submission by "Welcome to the Machine".
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  117. Is there a multi-verse theory in which Sabine has every possible hair style in each of her videos?
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  118. You should have noted "Eric the Not-Engineer".
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  119. In the US, not having to move even at awkward parts of ANY KIND of career is not a option for all but the most lucky!
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  120. Need to put some Toyota Upper Management into JAIL! Need to suspend national sales to make cheating hurt.
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  121. How many results proved Witches Float in Water, though? That is, how many results are NOT valid because of faulty or BAD research results? Will such results put a stake in the heart of actually valid inferences when FUNDING REVIEW COMMITTEES use AI as a screening 'aid'/post-doc hire?
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  122. "Yeah, can you believe there was a time when people didn't realize it is WATER DEMONS who make people sick from drinking from The Poor's water pump, and that is Bad Air that makes the Booboisie and Aristos sick, instead?" Of all the guidance given in The Bibble, just telling people about germs and the need to wash their hands AND dig the latrines upstream from where you wash the laundry and cook ware would have brought more good than the ACTUAL revered religion it proclaims ..., on pain of death ..., to save The Wickeds' souls ... BTW, there is ALWAYS 30 years of oil left ..., regardless of what Futurama says in it's Christmas Special ..., "Sponsored by Gunderson's Nuts" ...
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  123. "Fusion power will be technically feasable in [t+delta t] years", where t=current moment, and delta t depends on grad student career duration and time to vesting or tenure in the professional fusion research business. It's the scientific predecessor of "String Theory Explains the Universe" and Musk's "Failed Self-Driving" toy cars and truck. BTW, did the COAL INDUSTRY and/or NUCLEAR POWER VENDORS finance that report?!
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  124. Self-landing rocketships are VERY OLD TECH that was, and may STILL BE, really marginally economically beneficial ..., can you say Space Shuttle. AND, it took huge governmental subsidies to make it possible, AND EVEN NOW IT IS OF DUBIOUS VALUE EXCEPT FOR PR AND MARKETING RELEASES (e.g., your perception of what is important vs the opinions of the people actually doing research). How many mRNA and other issues would be advanced because the funding panels/committees were freed from incremental change guidelines and allowed to dedicate half their budget in areas that have no expectation of return WITHOUT PUNISHING RESEARCHERS FOR FAILURES TO DELIVER BREAKTHROUGHS ON A SCHEDULE DECIDED BY AN ACCOUNTANT?! The video is questioning the quality of change vs the quantity of merely valid research papers published.
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  125. Well, another stake through the heart of a lot of amateur commenter who thrive on the gaps caused by the well informed and appropriately educated people having too much on their plates to explain the meaning of results documented in publications like Science mag! It's so much more engaging to hear someone explaining controversies, with context, than trying to figure out just what the 'Results in Brief' or 'Breaking News' sections of the journals.
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  126. The problem is not with the tech, it is with the EFFICIENT CONSTRUCTION AND EQUITABLE SHARING OF COSTS OF THESE INSTALLATIONS! The local Vogtle new reactors are most likely safe, BUT THE RATE PAYERS ARE GOING TO BE SOAKED FOR $$$$ BILLIONS IN COST OVERRUNS FROM CONSTRUCTION LIES AND MISREPRESENTATIONS ALONG WITH CORRUPT SCHEDULE SLIPPAGE ON THE PARTS OF THE PROJECT!!! Of course, the $$$$$$$ stolen from the ratepayers will not affect the DIVIDENDS OF SHAREHOLDERS, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE POWER IS SOLD OUT OF REGION BECAUSE OF LOCAL OVER CAPACITY. This has been covered time and again, as in how ENRON was soaking California in power costs, but the ratepayers didn't see their part of that loot, only the shareholders and company officials. But, as usual, "engineers' always shield themselves from criticism by saying 'it was the other guys who did that, honest!', and Joe Public is stupid enough to believe them.
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  127. Well, at least you didn't immediately covert Humans into Human Capital. So, keep up the good work! The Scourges are the banking and political systems that are fundamental and inseparable needs for Capitalism. Banks allow the non-productive, eventual hyper-accumulation of capital by the few, who have used their smaller initial accumulation of capital to BUY the politicians who accelerate that accumulation REGARDLESS of the alleged 'fairness' of the initial political system. When ethics and morals eventually are always put on the auction block by the very fundamental 'ideals' of Capitalism's base, regardless of your fantasy Ideal Conditions, that's why there are people who wisely and continually point out having to irrigate government with the Bodily Fluids of Patriots. Capitalism is part of a COMPLEX system, not an end in itself, and we've seen the unpredictable, non-linear behavior of the overall ecosystem that works to destroy that same ecosystem when human greed enters the picture in very silent-but-deadly ways.
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  128. Well, it's better than thinking it can be left up to the German's solving the problem with their underfunded army and non-existent navy ..., but also with a lot of fairly good sounding military bands on YouTube, but with them followed by clowns marching with cheerleader handswings ..., and forgive me if I pretty much ignore RIT as a force for excellence in this kind of 'thimking' ....
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  129. Don't forget, DOE is there to keep US nuclear weapons physicists from starving until for some reason we need new ones and/or we need to try to coax a few more (maybe) decades of a 'reliable' US nuclear stockpile out of the data from reworks, conveniently forecast "Death and Devastation, Cats and Dogs Living Together!!" if we don't build new nukes ..., and/or need to analyze the results of a rogue nuke blast (fizzle, detonation, or dirty bomb), need to project the reliability of OTHER nuclear stockpiles, have people who can talk intelligently with other weapons physicists, etc. That includes accelerator and particle physicists like those who shill for the "National Ignition Facility" that was boasting and chest thumping it's inertial confinement controlled fusion PR and Marketing b/s last year.
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  130. Numbers please. If that were true the grifters at FactBook would have done this LONG AGO, cuz CFO and other MBA parasites said so.
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  131. Sounds like the triumph of technique over Reality ..., for some people who are REALLY, REALLY good at that technique. "If all you have is QM, everything is a nail."
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  132. My experience is when you 'outsource' thinking to someone else, and that is really what AI is all about, you need to keep quite a few people around TO MAKE SURE THE PRODUCT IS ACTUALLY CORRECT IN EVERY WAY, and THEY NEED TO BE HIGH CALIBER PEOPLE. I would like to see the places this is actually done, because all I ever hear is the Braggarts and Blowhards in Upper BrainDead Management trying to sell how much AI is going to cut costs so the businesses can send all that money to Vulture Capitalist stock holders. And, there is nothing the 'Murican Way of Bidness can't enshittify using its colossal lack of knowledge combined with its surfeit of confidence in itself. That's especially true when you let the big, useless Consulting Firms in to give you help until it's time for them to run away because they've broken everything and nobody can afford to pay them anymore.
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  133. If the accelerator consists of dropping rocks down those stairs? That would make them tera-particle accelerators??
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  134. Wonder if there was anything in the 'device' or they just sent it up 'for the insurance'? Just another "Schpring Time fur You-Know-Who!" scam?
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  135. Porsche didn't invent an effective wheel motor, then? Just like everything he did in WWII as a German Tech Wiz was mostly an utter failure. Even the VW Beetle took his sons to make it a practical manufacturing and operating success. Hub motor? Dirtier, wetter, hotter, unsprung weight, UNPROTECTED FROM CURB BUMPS and the like, power balance and control issues for casualty situation, etc. I particularly remember how clueless GERMAN ENGINEERING was to half shaft boot longevity on my Audi and VW when they were selling an idea that hadn't been even close to made reasonably robust. I even had a Benz differential replaced cuz issues.
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  136. The difference comes from thinking QM is the content of Consciousness and thinking it is merely a mechanism that makes it possible.
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  137. Letting Piers "Talking Pile of Manure and Maggots" Morgan have an opinion and broadcasting it is so venal that is should violate any broadcasting license in the US which allows a Vulture Capitalist to exploit THE PUBLIC AIRWAVES. The rest needs to be debated on its merits BY THE EXPERTS. Heard an excellent discussion of this over 10 years ago, but the fact it continues to be 'a controversy' is a demonstration of political parasites in positions of power. Just ELIMINATE PHYSICAL CONTESTS WITH GOVERNMENTAL SANCTION AND SUPPORT, FROM SCHOOLS AND FROM PUBLICLY FUNDED FACILITIES! Superior athletes are, by definition, freaks of biochemistry and biomechanics. Other than the economic parasites making $$$$ off betting businesses, exactly what is the public interest in supporting this whole meaningless drivel?!
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  138. You are a fool if you think anybody will learn from Vogtle. Georgia Power didn't even learn the lessons from Vogtle 1 & 2, decades EARLIER before they screwed over the ratepayers with Vogtle 3 & 4 and the Superwhamadyne APR fiasco. How do you know if the AP1000 is more economical and reliable when it has virtually NO TRACK RECORD and many of the non-US were built AT GOVERNMENT DIRECTION WHERE NO SCANDALS WILL BE ALLOWED TO SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY?!
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  139. Tell that to the APR Cheerleaders at Georgia Power ..., who now have saddled the ratepayers with UNICORN REACTORS because NOBODY ELSE HAS BUILT AND BROUGHT ON LINE THEIR OWN APRS TO SUPPORT THE ECONOMIES OF SCALE GEORGIA POWER WERE SCAMMED ON!! Of course, Georgia Power nearly busted the state on their Units 1 & 2 through their incompetence and clueless rube behavior, but NOBODY on the state utility commission would believe Georgia Power was going to be that stupid again! Their country club friends ASSURED THEM GP was not gonna let that happen when they all played their golf at the club ..., and now the rate payers are screwed with huge rate increases while the stockholders will reap the benefit of all the power sold OUTSIDE the state, cuz surplus.
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  140. So, 'least influential' can be ignored? You are just engaging in rhetorical argument to support your opinion, not examine the fact that it IS STILL INFLUENTIAL and can be dealt with even if there are other influences. Please, PLEASE stick to the subjects your an expert in, which is not this one or the New Nuclear Renaissance.
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  141. Appreciate this insight from a person with inside knowledge. Now, Ms. Hossenfelder, imagine, JUST IMAGINE, this is ALSO the kind of self-serving prevarication being spread by the Nuclear Power Industry ..., because THAT is what I see with my insider knowledge and experience.
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  142. So did I, and the biggest challenge IN THE US is working AROUND THE PIE IN THE SKY PROMISES OF THE NUCLEAR VENDORS WHO LIE, CHEAT, AND STEAL LIKE DRUG PUSHERS.
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  143. Why won't these electrons DO WHAT I TELL THEM TO DO!! and What happens in Physicists' Fight Club STAYS in Physicists' Fight Club! Reality is not made with Lego blocks. (I'll correct your book appropriately ..., when it get here in the mail ...)
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  144. It's not a question of SPECIES! It's a question of a Tool User and a Tool. The question is will there be SUFFICIENT, HIGH QUALITY CONTROLS instituted by the money grubbing business world, where there are both civil and criminal culpability enforced for torts and crimes that are legally defined for people who use such tools without regard for the outcomes? RIGHT NOW, there are $$$$BILLIONS flowing in arbitrage and hedge funds and derivatives trading that can and almost did bring the World Economy crashing down, all because the regulators were too inept or constrained by corrupt, inept, and/or lazy politicians to prevent wide scale fraud from disregard of due diligence on the part of financial institutions. In these cases of Tool Users misusing a Tool, it is aptly a case of the Tool Users, in the guise of financial traders who did NOT understand the programs in use but DID have the right Good Old Boy Connections, a case of those Tool Users OBVIOUSLY being 'dumber' than the PhDs with the right math and science backgrounds who actually ran the programs but did not do the actual Business Fraud. I already almost had a PhD nuclear assay 'scientist' poached from my group by several financial firms who wanted to use the PhDs expertise in data analysis and methods to drive their Vulture Capitalism business ventures. This sci-fi Man vs. The Machine/Robot seems to be VERY over-dramatized, and the actual circumstances ALREADY exist in lesser form, today. We've learned some of the lessons, so time to dump the fantasization of this subject and get on with practical policies to deal with it.
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  145.  @AbdullahKhan-s1t7p  Carbon-free ..., except for the carbon needed for the cannisters on all the respirators people in "The Emergence Planning Immediately Affected Area" will have to wear 24/7.
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  146. Every sector Elon decides to touch is just a little bit worse. Well, everything but Space X BOOSTER program, which he has very little control over except for accepting the US government subsidies to bugger off and let all those laid-off NASA brains do the real work.
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  147. Listen carefully and CRITICALLY to the "'Haven't Done, Won't Do, Can't Do Research' Professional Science Guys and Gals" who go by the grand titles called 'Influencers" and "Communicators". They have no real experience in The Research Game so cannot speak as if they know from their own jobs. You and my acquaintances/relatives who HAVE done research on the professional level feed me the same issues you have voiced. Your graphs on Innovative Papers are the stakes through the hearts of Knee-Jerk Defenders of the Orthodoxy, especially in the "Influencers" and "Communicators" who have no real tie to the state of Research except through their wallets. The fact we are getting less bang for the buck, apparently, is/could be just as likely the setup for the next few breakthroughs we can't predict that will invigorate Science.
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  148. There is ABSOLUTELY NO INFRASTRUCTURE ON MARS to support the technically demanding and advanced artificial environment that is needed TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM DYING IN MINUTES OF TOUCHDOWN! And yet, we can't even get clean water to all people on Earth, yet! Examples: A diffusion unit breaks and immolates several near it, rendering it impossible to support 500 of the people currently living there. Where do you 'buy' one? You can't take huge inventories there and store them SUCCESSFULLY AND SAFELY for possible emergencies! You can't even do so on Earth, like keeping adequate spares that are compatible with your equipment in a normal industrial setting where there are hundreds of facilities around Earth that may need fixes or replacement. The equivalent of a 'sea chest' ruptures on a Mars module, rendering it uninhabitable and unable to support operations. How do you fix it when this was all built ON EARTH IN HUGELY FAVORABLE MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENTS! The population starts dying of unforeseen feed back between excessive radiation exposure, food 'manufactured' on Mars, and lack of drugs. A Supply ship crashes on the main command and control area and fries huge amounts of information and electronic command and control systems, along with making HUGE breaches in the environmental containment need TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM DYING IMMEDIATELY! Some psycho who BOUGHT his way to Mars breaks down because Daddy/Mommy can't buy him a ride back to Earth, so he goes around sabotaging the colony or outright destroying airlocks because he's high up the food chain because of Daddy's/Mommy's money and has the means and clearances. Space Karen was too cheap and crooked to do adequate risk assessment on merely his StarShip base, opting instead to just keep blowing things up until he succeeds with some extra duct tape and bailing wire. He is TOO CHEAP TO EVEN HAVE AN ABORT RESCUE SYSTEM ON HIS STARSHIP TO POSSIBLY SAVE A CREW OR HUGE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS ON A LAUNCH FAILURE; HIS STARSHIP IS NOT MAN-RATED!!! Colonizing Mars is a pipe dream, and I mean a CRACK PIPE DREAM! Mars will NEVER be able to support itself, so it is NOT some bolt hole for Earth on Mars, like New Zealand and the like are for crooks on Earth. When Columbus had ship problems in the New World, THERE WERE STILL TREES, NOT TO MENTION OXYGEN, TO REPAIR HIS SHIPS TO GET BACK TO THE OLD WORLD. That LAST FACT is the stake in the heart of this SCAM/CON JOB/PONZI SCHEME!! If Life dies on Earth, IT WILL ALSO GET SNUFFED OUT ON MARS IN JUST ANOTHER FEW MONTHS..., and there will be no 'cavemen or intelligent apes' left on Mars to populate The Planet of the Apes fantasy world, either. That is the ADULT FACT that con men like Space Karen ignore on their way to fraudulently stealing money from the government and investors RIGHT HERE AND NOW! You know FRAUDULENTLY LIKE HE USED HIS SCAM HYPERLOOP TO RUIN THE CHANCE OF CALIFORNIA GETTING HIGH SPEED RAIL THAT WOULD OBSOLETE HIS STILL-NOT-CARBON-NEUTRAL EVS AND THEIR GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES!!!! The Common Sense Skeptic and Thunderf00t have debunked this on their channels in FUNDAMENTAL TERMS years ago, and nothing has changed since then. Oh, and I've worked in and supported high-tech, hazardous material and atmosphere environments for decades. This is all from personal experience with even 'last-decades-tech', much less the bleeding edge tech Space Karen pretends exists. We can't even keep a space station habitable for a handful of tenants without huge costs and decaying orbital infrastructure. Now add a couple decimal points to that population and to the cycle times of emergency response. People with experience in such industries know Musk is a crook and his continual NON-DELIVERY ON HIS PROMISES AND 'PROJECTS' IS PROOF.
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  149. Flieschmann go his bad reputation by the way he presented his fairly 'so what' discovery, a discovery that used extremely sloppy labs-manship and extremely tabloid publicity. It was the bad science that really earned him his bad reputation. What he discovered really didn't exist. Cold fusion was widely known but by bad technique he created NON-science.
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  150. As a great scientist once observed, "Math is Hard! [tee-hee]"
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  151. Sorry, no trust in a Chinese-made battery for consumer use, though, especially when they lie, er, 'misstate' properties in certifications to US standards. I'm gonna need some assurance they actually DO meet the requirements by independent laboratories, like UL, before they should EVER be released for anything but closely-regulated use. But your video title CLEARLY states the small uses for this kind of battery, DOESN'T IT?!j Otherwise, you're just the 21st Century equivalent of the Popular Mechanics/popular press rags that once boasted 'Nuclear Reactor in Every House'.
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  152. Isn't that Title called "Damning with Faint Praise"? Neither Bezos nor O'Neill have ANY idea how complex and complicated even a simple project like a habitat ON EARTH is. I heard O'Neill's original pitch, and as a callow youth in engineering I was too clueless to understand the "Fast, Cheap, High Quality: Pick One" triangle of project management because everything seemed just a matter of working harder, the idiotic Prime Directive of US Bidnessmen everywhere. There's no real reason to go into space, yet, except to try and find a actual reason to migrate large-scale processes into space.
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  153. Ask Georgia Power how cheap their 'mass produced' APR units are at Vogtle 3 & 4! South Carolina utilities CANCELLED the only other unit even considered for building because of up front costs, too.
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  154. Scientists with a PR department making some questionable claims meet speculators with almost nothing but a PR department making some questionable 'anonymous' claims. The sad fact is neither is the out-and-out more trustworthy.
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  155. It doesn't need to break even. NIF is MERELY a toy for the US NUCLEAR WEAPONS SCIENTISTS, not a serious fusion power project. This is just an attempt to SECURE FUNDING IN THE FACE OF DRAMATIC CUTS OF 'RESEARCH' FUNDING. The utter frivolity of this project has been covered many times before!
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  156.  @hugegamer5988  Infinite Regression Time: The people who have issued the press release saying the people issued the first press release were sacked ..., wait for it ..., were sacked. It's utterly Python-esque ...
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  157. More Vulture Capitalism, where the ONLY Customers are the shareholders. Everyone else is Prey. He saves on people's wages AND he licks the boots of Trump and other FLERF-quality grifters. Just another reason I feel justified in having deleted my Facebook account years ago. GIGO
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  158. Sounds like what we need are fewer Respectable Scientists and more Smartasses with Extreme Cleverness ...
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  159. They are typical "Murican Bidnessmen, LIARS AND CROOKS! Nadella then adds a doubler factor to their utter venality!! "I hear MS will be powering these breakthrough using their own New, Improved Cooler Nuclear Fusion, too!!" "Quantum, Quantum, Quantum!"
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  160. Terry Pratchett's one "Science of Discworld" volumes has the anecdote about a "cold focuser" that uses ice and a 'reflector' to keep your microscope objective cooled so the slides don't degrade from the illumination source. It was in a 'science catalog' so its design must be squirreled away somewhere!
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  161. Given how weak human minds and brains are at filling in the 'unseen' parts of visual scenes, real, imagined, or reproduced; and seeing how bad some people are at understanding GREAT fiction works, yet a professor or friend can 'splain the plot and nuances to them; and seeing how most people can't do Real Physics, but can follow 'Lies We Tell Children' and have people with an education 'splain things, ditto for falling-to-sleep lectures which can make sense when hearing when conscious; I think there are practical examples ENOUGH to say we are NOT the creators of our own reality. Oh yeah, lets include your YouTube along with other Real Science ones being able to educate and re-educate a brain and mind when the idea was never in that mind to begin with. The dreams I have are lucid, but they are far closer to what my Realty would be like, like the Dreamlands in Johannes Cabal and the Fear Institute (another tacit example of my practical proof). This is a question of brain sophism, where words are mistaken to be the same as the thing they name or describe.
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  162. Fake Intelligence could easily be 'biased' because the only interesting ideas and movement into new ideas comes from The Left, not the "Making the Same Mistakes, Over and Over" Right. You can pretty much sum up The Right with the phrase "Screw You I Got Mine", which is not really possible with The Left. I have very little to learn from Conservative thought in matters of Culture and Society, especially compared to Humanist and even Libertarian [spit] thought.
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  163. Thanks for giving insight for how 'edge science' of the GOOD kind actually works. I'm just now working free of so many "Lies We Tell To Children" with videos like yours on YouTube!
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  164. I believe it's included in their voicemail message, too ..., er, their phone answering machine message tape ..., YHWH uses tape, not this Satanic internet stuff ..., they're different 'kinds', you see, and internet is unclean ...
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  165. What about 'smell or taste it'? Sense prejudice! Looks like a SpaceX Michelson-Morley setup. Space Karen will have it up and running in 6 months ..., would you believe 10 years ..., would you believe ....
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  166. Context is a part of everything, but how does Fake Intelligence account for that unless it produces a product that includes context?
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  167. Yep, that's The Microsoft Way! Make up a story, lie and say it's true, collect the $$$$ from selling the 'product' from the story, then MAYBE actually do some research and work needed to make even very small parts of that story 'true'. Then Revise the Story with even MORE lies and repeat the process. They are ALL LIARS!
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  168. ""The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation" ..." is an appropriate response attributed to the Universe.
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  169. "Money is Honey, Bloom, Money is Honey!"
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  170. "All you need is money, Bloom. Money is honey. Money is honey."
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  171. Interesting how your video on the Next Big Accelerator ..., that will be obsolete by the time CERN builds it ..., is soooooo similar to the utter SCAM that is AI 'research'. These people KNOW it isn't a useful path, but they are so bought in to the personal economics (i.e., paychecks) that they won't admit it AND they are just biding their time until they CAN jump ship. It's the 'biding time to jumping ship' which will lead to DEAD AI HUSKS AND FAILED COMPANIES/DEFRAUDED INVESTORS, or, in the accelerator's case, will lead to YET ANOTHER ALBATROSS AROUND SCIENCE'S NECK!! If AI can't follow and diagnose these SIMPLE HUMAN THOUGHT PROCESSES (i.e., see the ULTERIOR MOTIVES), how can AI EVER be pronounced equal to even the most simple Games Humans Play?!
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  172. Only source I could find with more than colouring-book info was The Debrief: " ... the company says that traditional solar panels often only have a working time of about two hours due to lighting and other weather conditions. Conversely, they say that “regardless of weather,” their PES “can operate for 8 hours. ... However, no further details on this effort are provided either, adding to the frustrating number of claims offered by the company that do not seem to be supported with additional data." According to "Christopher Plain is a Science Fiction and Fantasy novelist and Head Science Writer at The Debrief." I think I'll keep my IRA with Vanguard, for now.
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  173. Wow, you seem to trust the R&D department with documentation more than you do Marketing/PR departments on male hormone overload?! How Elitist can you get ..., you utter subversive ..., and Cultural Marxist, whatever that is, according to Marketing and PR departments ... The Apologists for AI sound a lot like "The new StarShip was functioning really well until the Laws of Physics caught up with the Fanboi Hyperventilation"
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  174. Don't forget The Tragedy of the Commons, where deliberately unethical and immoral people use Human Communication for their own parasitic purposes with no regard for the General Welfare. The important thing in this channel is that, having used a Bayesian approach to what I've heard, I can trust the science I hear here without having to always hunt for corroboration, although sometimes there are shades of grey to consider in the details of other general areas. Please keep up the great work because there are so few professionals I've found who have the background to be an expert and the sponsorship/support come back and respond to the questions we all have.
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  175. Could the Universe transmit enough information to have a coherent thought before it ends? Even The Great Atuin is really, really small, yet takes a LONG time to have a thought ..., see the Krull Institute of Biomathemagics Archive for the appropriate calculations. It would not be a network-centric intelligence, I'd say. The thoughts about itself are probably already irrelevant by the time the information coalesces because of the space-time intervals involved, so consciousness would be even less likely.
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  176. That's actually what Kuhn described in the early 1960s in his theory of scientific revolutions. No prize for him, either, unless you count a National Review 'award', from the Hive Mind of 'The Past Always Worked for Me!", a prize.
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  177. And, the frightening thing is this really shows how The Integrity of Science can easily be questioned by the way these games are being played at the behest of the Vulture Businessmen who actually run the universities.
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  178. We didn't start the fire ..., and, neither have they ...
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  179. Really, we've had problems reconciling QM and Relativity throughout human history? Problems getting water to hundreds of millions of people in Africa when the solution is not that hard? Problems doing 3 nm die sizes on IC throughout human history? Problems finding ways to reverse the UTTER FAIL of past human history of recklessly burning coal and not thinking it would change the climate? Problems jailing crooked scam artists ..., well, maybe we have some problems the same, but solving this one would render the problem of Scam Artist Space Karen less pressing. Just another Fanboi defending the Big Lie.
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  180. WHY does this not need to be certified to a 10CFR50 Appendix B QA Program?! Or, are you just blowing smoke and forgetting this is a requirement in ALL cases, with all requirements still having to be justified in safety analyses?
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  181.  @kennethferland5579  I also agree with you. This entire discussion is full of misdirection and deliberate hiding the truth on what is required by the NRC for the safety analysis required for ANY nuclear facility. The problem is not with the tech, it is with the utterly incompetent program management which let latest other plants' costs balloon by $$$$ BILLIONS, to be borne by a ratepayer population who will receive NOTHING when the excess capacity is sold out of the local area ..., but the country club buddies and other cronies on the utility commisssions of the utilities' operators will be glad to take their dividends on their IRAs and the like.
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  182. How many scientists want to work on tech jobs? There are already a lot of PhDs in industry who work the production lines and/or are responsible for supporting production/processing. You are going to need government funding that Vulture Capitalists won't spend because, well, TODAY'S ACTUAL SITUATION PROVES IT. BUT, you are going to have to have some PROFESSIONAL DISCERNMENT to keep FoxSpews from being the chair of all the funding panels.
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  183. The plural of anecdote is NOT DATA. You are merely an anecdote for all the rest of us. The fact you had not been taken off the rolls is your problem, as in if YOU decided to commit a CRIME by voting in the old district, then YOU will be put in jail. BTW, NONE of those 200,000 fictional ballots were EVER found in the last US election, and ALL the cases of alleged lesser amounts were TOSSED BY THE COURT ..., or a REPUBLICAN was found to be guilty of a crime.
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  184. A SPAC Endorsement -> Duh-Nald Trumps internet corporation used a SPAC to acquire this FAIL of a corporation, and vehicle to ship $$$$ to Duh-Nald to avoid campaign finance rules. I'd be VERY worried if I were a govt employee and my pension fund was investing in something that looks like it was FORCED to invest in by other govt powers, not because it looks like a really good RETIREMENT investment!!
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  185. Do his ideas make more sense than current QM? You didn't really NEED to ask that, did you?! N-Ray bases of QM make more sense than current QM?
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  186. The Universe is an awfully large bag of white and black balls to be understood by Round-Worlders who haven't even discovered Slood, yet.
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  187. String theory is actually just a hypothesis until ...  @philipdynes8732 
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  188. These 'scientists/theoreticians' seem to be just Allegedly-Grown-Up "Physics 101 Lab Session" Students trying desperately to Pound to Fit/Paint to Match their g = 10.5 m/sec^2 experimental results!
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  189. Does MOND cover all the observations that are included in the Dark Matter Club Car? I've forgotten how many 'cosilient' observations there are, but I don't think the observation of galaxy formation explains ALL the phenomena (or, actually I'm too lazy to go spelunking down the entire dark matter rabbit hole).
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  190. “In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly ..."
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  191. SWAGs do not count as 'being right', even 'tentatively being a hypothesis'. And, as you note, the error bars once again swallow the supposed coherence effects. Or, does having an ice-based Thinking Cap to shrink those errors become a reality? And, thanks for the "I personally met ..." insights and context, which is why you are so interesting as a presenter here!
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  192. Just like there is "always 30 years of petroleum left", there will ALWAYS be ...
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  193. And, as a separate note, does Ground News ALSO tell you what Industry Groups fund what media rag in the case of The Nuclear Renaissance (that will never happen without 3x the 'promised' costs and without 3x the 'promised' delivery date and without 3x the actual Operating Costs)? Note, I am a subscriber to Ground News at beyond the College Student Cheap rate, too.
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  194. Funny, but every statistics class I've taken (and many 'amateur level' popular science books) over MANY decades have discussed how coin flips won't be fair "In the Long Run".j However, you have furnished some of the important initial conditions instead of the quick excuse "Left to the Reader/Student".
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