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02 Sep 2011, 10:20 am

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The only way that an RBE could ever happen is by convincing a tipping-point number of people. The tactic of insulting people for not convincing themselves is not working.

I actually have changed my mind when presented with very good arguments. I had been a lifelong anti-gun person but there are a few posters here who made really good arguments for responsible civilian gun ownership and use and I changed my mind. Gun owners in America have a much lesser battle than proponents of an RBE. They merely need to argue for or against particular legislation. What the proponents of an RBE want is for literally everybody to do literally everything differently. That's going to take a lot more than arguments. That's going to take models that can be showcased and assessed. If you want this to happen, yelling at people that they need to keep reading/watching videos until they agree with you will never accomplish that.


Ok, it is obvious you cannot leave that ego behind. As such, I'm not gonna waste any more time on you. Your repeated strawmen and half-baked suppositions stink of bias and emotionally vested interest in perpetuating an argument that you are determined to win, and petrified of losing, and I have already stated that I want no part in massaging your ego.

Have a nice day.


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02 Sep 2011, 5:00 pm

According to the Classic Venus Project, Fusion is the way to go not Fission.



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02 Sep 2011, 7:27 pm

androbot2084 wrote:
According to the Classic Venus Project, Fusion is the way to go not Fission.


Yodah says: Not your breath hold until controlled fusion have we, else blue turn you will.

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02 Sep 2011, 8:00 pm

Controlled nuclear fusion is just the kiloton yield of the hydrogen bombs.



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03 Sep 2011, 10:35 pm

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Controlled nuclear fusion is just the kiloton yield of the hydrogen bombs.


Hydrogen bombs use plutonium fission to fuse hydrogen to make yet another, much large runaway reaction, making a lot of energy. Hydrogen bombs are uncontrolled fusion not controlled fusion we are trying to make in a lab.



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04 Sep 2011, 6:36 am

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Controlled nuclear fusion is just the kiloton yield of the hydrogen bombs.


You are a fount of ignorance and unreason. Why don't you learn about the technology instead of making ignorant statements.

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04 Sep 2011, 1:42 pm

ruveyn wrote:
androbot2084 wrote:
Controlled nuclear fusion is just the kiloton yield of the hydrogen bombs.


You are a fount of ignorance and unreason. Why don't you learn about the technology instead of making ignorant statements.

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Now you see why I don't humour this guy anymore. He's convinced that atomic rockets are used in a vacuum tube to propell a maglev train (Even though a little common sense will tell you that MAGNETS are used for propulsion even if rockets could somehow work in a vacuum lol) and he refuses to be conviced that an RBE will NOT be founded upon the use of nuclear power. He's obssessed with the concept of nuclear power in the negative.

So you see the kinda ignorance I have to put up with on a regular basis.


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04 Sep 2011, 9:25 pm

That's not what I said . I said that if a 4000 mph train were ever developed that there would be a competing nuclear powered hypersonic aircraft that would be also developed that would not need an expensive vacuum tube infrastructure.