Comments by "r baxter" (@rbaxter286) on "Fusion Breakthrough - BUSTED!!!" video.

  1. Had a professor DECADES ago who admitted to me this was just a smokescreen for keeping the weapons community funded and employed, while he was trying to recruit me for a summer intern position with possible follow-on work even into the Fall term. LLNL was founded on Edward Teller's ego problems and a hugely powerful Bring Home the Pork/Fight the Commies shuck and jive. Weapons stockpile reliability and the like are issues, but there are just as many organizations out there who can do that work ..., just not in the comfortable circumstances of LLNL's 'local clients'. That's especially an issue when you consider LLNL's past history of design screwups and the ability of other facilities to do this work just as well and better because they are not parked in prime real estate with a lot of neighbors.
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