Re: "Fissionless Fusion" Instead of Emotional Value Laden Terms

"Bret Cahill" <BretCahill@xxxxxxx> wrote... 
< The difference is that controlled fusion can power a city while
uncontrolled fusion

< can vaporize it.

That's a POLITICAL difference, not a scientific one. 

No, it is very scientific because it is very easy to create an
uncontrolled fusion reaction, but after a half-century of
research they are still unable to create a sustainable
controlled fusion reaction.  I don't see how it is any more
"political" than the way science controls gasoline combustion
to power our vehicles instead of allowing an uncontrolled
explosion that would set you and the car on fire.

Here's a quote related to science and politics I hope you'll like:

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"In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost
ceased to exist.  In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.'  The
empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of
the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of
Ingsoc.  And even technological progress only happens when its products
can in some way be used for the diminution of human liberty.  In all the
useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.  The
fields are cultivated with horse plows while books are written by
machinery.  But in matters of vital importance - meaning, in effect, war
and police espionage - the empirical approach is still encouraged, or at
least tolerated.  The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole
surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility
of independent thought.  There are therefore two great problems which
the Party is concerned to solve.  One is how to discover, against his
will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill
several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning
beforehand.  In so far as scientific research still continues, this is
its subject matter."
-- 1984
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