Should Google Go Nuclear? 419
Baldrson writes "One of the founders of the US Tokamak fusion program, Dr. Robert W. Bussard, gave a lecture at Google recently now appearing as a Google video titled 'Should Google Go Nuclear?'. In it, he presents his recent breakthrough electrostatic confinement fusion device which, he claims, produced several orders of magnitude higher fusion power than earlier electrostatic confinement devices. According to Bussard, it did so repeatably during several runs until it blew up due to mechanical stress degradation. He's looking for $200M funding, the first million or so of which goes to rebuilding a more robust demonstrator within the first year. He claims the scaling laws are so favorable that the initial full scale reactor would burn boron-11 — the cleanest fusion reaction otherwise unattainable. He has some fairly disturbing things to say in this video, as well as elsewhere, about the US fusion program which he co-founded."
Destroy boron! (Score:0, Funny)
Google Goes Nuclear; Microsoft's Pants=Brown Alert (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, I think that Google would be far more trustworthy with nuclear weapons than Iran or North Korea.
Obligatory science fiction refernce: Vernor Vinge's "The Ungoverned"
Buttons (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Buttons (Score:2, Funny)
KFG
Hostile Google AI Takeover?! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Google Goes Nuclear; Microsoft's Pants=Brown Al (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Google Goes Nuclear; Microsoft's Pants=Brown Al (Score:1, Funny)
That depends on whether an MAD scenario with Microsoft would increase shareholder value.
Re:Buttons (Score:4, Funny)
Ummm... can you explain the downside?
Soko
Re:Hostile Google AI Takeover?! (Score:4, Funny)
I wonder if they call him (Score:3, Funny)
an interesting question (Score:4, Funny)
easy (Score:3, Funny)
I do trade boron for... (was:Destroy boron!) (Score:2, Funny)
Obligatory "In related news..." (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Valuable as PR move more than anything? (Score:5, Funny)
Because it helps further mankind's patriarcic domination of Gaia. A better solution would be to live a life in tune with nature, where people only inhabit the fruited plains of Africa, just coming down from the trees to forage for fruit (that has dropped to the ground; it's wrong to tear plants apart) and being led by matriarchs who aren't repressed by body image or hygiene.
Technology is for people who haven't learned to hate being human. Don't they realize that life would be better if only innocent animals inhabited the earth?
Re:Hostile Google AI Takeover?! (Score:3, Funny)
What do you mean by "when"? It is designing a fusion reactor! It did already happen!!!! Run for your lifes!!!
Oh, whait... There is no place to run.
Remember kids.... (Score:3, Funny)