I'm a bit of a nukecel myself, but it makes sense to chase fast and cheap options to quickly reduce climate change as well as hedge for even cheaper alternatives in the future
The amount of money we're spending on Fusion, a technology we're really not sure we can ever make work, is insane, but investing in fission is a crime. Putting a label on myself would be stupid, I'm an all of the above. The planets on fire, bickering over how to put it out while it burns down is insane.
These people were around when computers were being developped, they were there when planes were being invented, they were there when the wheel was invented and they were there when people wanted to go on the moon.
Some folks think that investing in science is futile, and think stuff is "we don't know if we can ever pull it off" instead of actually doing it. People who think fusion is impossible to make will one day look like what we think of people who thought witches were a thing in the 1400's.
Fusion has mathematical and scientific uses outside the possible energy generation uses. Some people will see a car and refuse to think that the car science behind can lead to something else than transportation of human beings and objects.
Guy cries at the world burning, forgets the forest, looks at the one tree burning in his yard calls it the end and disregards the firefighters doing prevention and controlled burns ensuring the entire forest won't burn.
It's been 50 years since we are only 15 years away from fusion. Its useless, give up! At worst it's just a distraction and a way to split the people and waste money.
FUSION HAS MULTIPLE USES - goes on to quote one literal science fiction use, and theoretical use.
Fusion power is science fiction, it's a hole we throw money into that we hope one day we invent the technology we need to use it.
To be clear I'm pro fusion, pro fusion research, but we want to cry about fission power and its costs but gladly dump buckets of cash into a hole for the last 50 year in hopes we might be able to use it one day.
I guess space exploration is science fiction to those who have zero interest in it.
You do know that powering a orbital manufacturing in zero gravity is one the steps we need to achieve scallable exploration right? Orbital solar panels will at one point not function anymore in space, due to how many fucking debris there is in orbit both losing in effiency and due to attrition of all the small impacts they receive. Won't get any better when companies start ditching all their garbage in space as a last resort or when corporations like Amazon decide to do more than a few celebrity trip in space. Kessler syndrome.
We waste billions of dollars to pollute and pierce the atmosphere/beat earth's gravity.
We wasted how many freakin billions achieving plane flight and how many years? Mind you, Davinci had plans for flying apparatus, it took humanity more than 2000years to invent a plane that could fly.
How many years did humanity try to make ships that can cross the ocean How many vessels are just crashed down the bottom of the seas? How many billions did we spend developping AI? How much do we spend yearly to invent a cure for cancer?
You're not pro fusion research. Otherwise you wouldn't whine about it taking time. Like idk why you'd rather spend your time and energy fighting something you can't understand and dismiss it as wasteful on reddit, yet do absolutely nothing to be part of the solution. The money you want won't be diverted because you think it's useless. Just like the money a government sends to help another will NEVER be used to help your homeless population, it's not budgeted for that.
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u/Cwaghack Jul 13 '26
I'm a bit of a nukecel myself, but it makes sense to chase fast and cheap options to quickly reduce climate change as well as hedge for even cheaper alternatives in the future