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   Dillon Pyron to All   
   Re: Experts Warn of 'Terminator'-Style M   
   19 Apr 10 22:59:06   
   
   From: invaliddmpyron@austin.rr.com   
      
   [Default] Thus spake "Karl" :   
      
   >   
   >   
   >"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.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Gerry O'Neil, The High Frontier   
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