The article didn't seem to have much more info than TFS so I'm guessing here, but in general, you may not need to generate net power for fusion to be useful for rocket thrust.

There's plenty of solar power available in space (at least near the inner planets), and as the Farnsworth fusor showed decades ago, it's not hard to generate fusion reactions if you don't expect positive energy output. For some space missions, propellant mass is very important, and getting the highest velocity exhaust is the goal. Using solar energy to induce fusion reactions could be one way to do this. Of course, like most ion drives, this would be very low thrust over long time spans.

How long before they add AI-generated tooltips to Notepad that show sponsored links to products and services related to what you typed?

He might be, since in this case his advice is perfectly valid.

"But Derp! Derp! I can write perfect C++!!!!"

Just shut up.

#define PI 3.2

/ducks

To be fair, it's been hard for them to keep up with the constant churn of the "move fast and break things" COBOL culture.

OK, I give up. Which integer is out of range?

Why not send this to see if it helps:

100 FOR X=0 to 65535
200 POKE X, INT(RND(1) * 256)
300 NEXT X

So let me get this straight. You're a Republican, and you're NOT voting for trump in November?

With your profanity-laced language and your low IQ statements, you certainly seem like you will.

I don't know. Maybe they should, if you're unable to comprehend the problem otherwise.

I don't think you have all that much in the way of "chemistry understanding".

It's not the base polymers that people are worried about. It's the endocrine-disrupting additives such as plasticizers.

You sound like a RINO. Sad.

I thought that these days, Republicans will only buy those Trump sneakers.

If the lab meat can't compete because it tastes bad, why expand government bureaucracy by banning it?

BTW, a lot of the meat currently being sold in supermarkets is injected with a significant percentage of salty water. They still get to market it as "meat".

Not really. The feds turn around and give a bunch of money straight to the states, and most states give a bunch of money directly to schools and localities.

But how is what size of entity gets money important anyway? In all cases, the money is divided up and doled out to countless individual programs. *That's* what's important, and our system gives you no particular clues to track that.

This article is about the climate actually changing ... and you're mad because that's attributed to climate change?