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   Karl to Guido   
   Re: Experts Warn of 'Terminator'-Style M   
   15 Apr 10 21:15:16   
   
   From: karlwtz@yahoo.com   
      
   "Guido"  wrote in message   
   news:hq6ev9$kqg$1@news.parasun.com...   
   > Neill Massello wrote:   
   >> Dillon Pyron  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>When I graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in CS, AI was "just   
   >>>around the corner".  That was in 1978.  We haven't even reached the   
   >>>middle of the block, never mind "the corner".   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> But we're just thirty years away from fusion power -- as we have been   
   >> for the last fifty years.   
   >   
   >   
   > The sad thing is that we will remain 30 years from fusion power until they   
   > can find a way to justify charging the public outrageous amounts for it.   
      
   What if by the time they actually DO come out with it and it works, we have   
   solar panels being produced at 50 cents a peak watt?   
      
   I guess you'll need the reactors for night?  Unless they orbit the solar   
   panels, then the fusion guys are screwed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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