Doubt what? There wasn't any speculation.

The police, or at least the people police report too, are going to love these things. The devices will replace at least three other devices, the personal radio+mic, the body camera and the in-vehicle computer console.

I expect to see every cop in the US wearing these inside of five years. For better or worse.

If your heart is set on nuclear, fission is panning out now.

Asia is building reactors fast. Very fast. Fukushima caused some investigation and siting changes, but the plants are still going up in China, India and S. Korea. Thirty three new reactors will enter commercial operation in those countries in the next three years by my count; see www.world-nuclear.org. The drought has even ended here in the last few years; there are now five new reactors under construction in the US with more applications in the works.

Not bad for a "non-starter."

I guess they didn't feel the need to help perpetuate that 'murica hate propaganda you and ISIS wish everyone was forced to hear.

Too bad. When I'm back home tonight I'll bust out a microscopic violin and play a sad little concerto for you and your narrative.

This.

Don't be bitter. You've learned an important life lesson; don't believe anything an educrat tells you. A lot of people will die under a small mountain of education debt they accumulated prior to learning this.

Salyut 3, a Soviet military space station, was launched in '74 equipped with an anti-aircraft cannon. The gun was aimed by orienting the whole station. Far more interesting than some survival gun.

Of course, the operative word there is "volunteer." If trace amounts of inert Fluorine compounds are a serious concern for someone, in addition to the asbestos, dioxin, carbon monoxide, benzene, sulphur dioxide, hydrogen cyanide, aldehydes, lead, hydrogen chloride, zinc, silicates, dichlorofluoromethane and only god knows what else that any given volunteer is likely to encounter, then the thing to do is not volunteer. I suspect the net number of volunteer's that abandon their role as firefighters due to Fluorine compounds will be precisely zero.

You have inflated expectations of our knowledge.

Buckyballs are common in nature. They proliferate around campfires. We didn't realize that until after we "first generated" (as Wikipedia puts it) buckyballs in a lab and awarded Nobel Prizes for it thirty years ago.

When some chemical company reacts Fluorine with whatever to make fire retardant is it really surprising that a variety of molecular species appear? We don't actually put each molecule under a STEM and serialize it. The product is "mostly" some intended molecule and the rest is..... meh. Whatever!

You live in that world. You are wearing it, eating it and using a big pile of polymer and highly refined minerals to demonstrate your ignorance with it, and despite the fact that we probably haven't cataloged more than a fraction of what all that stuff is out-gassing into your lungs you'll probably live to be a ripe old 90+ because of it. So try not to spaz out about it.

These Fluorine compounds are close to inert which is why they persist so long. Unless the firefighters are actually eating their fire retardant with coffee each morning they are unlikely to suffer any effects at all from the minuscule amounts that manage to get past their filters and whatnot. And if they do then they have their gold plated government funded health care, public union negotiated disability plans and similarly generous pensions to help them cope. Fighting fires is a dangerous occupation.

No. The petty cost of trading influence is well known. William Greider detailed this phenomena 23 years ago in "Who Will Tell the People." A nice fur coat or use of a private plane is often sufficient.

That won't work. They don't simply spin about on a whim. The sellouts are predisposed to the buyers for many reasons and the tokens you're dwelling on are really just obligatory offerings and partly symbolic; tossing a liberal some exclusive theater tickets usually won't buy a pro-gun vote.