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   Dillon Pyron to All   
   Re: Experts Warn of 'Terminator'-Style M   
   20 Apr 10 16:50:19   
   
   From: invaliddmpyron@austin.rr.com   
      
   [Default] Thus spake cloud dreamer   
   :   
      
   >On 4/14/2010 9:07 PM, 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.   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   >Fusion power probably exists. The plans are in the safe of some oil   
   >exec's office, guarded 24 hours a day and the inventor is living high on   
   >the hog in Rio. The same safe contains a pile of global warming denial   
   >propaganda.   
   >   
   >  :]   
      
   Actually, we have fusion power right now.  The only problem is the   
   release rate.  Somehow I don't think that 10**19 joules released in a   
   few miliseconds (if that long)   
   --   
      
   - dillon  I am not invalid   
      
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   Taxes are due on April 15th.   
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