I'm sure you're trying to be funny here, but I'd bet money that a lot of science-fictiony inventions will indeed come out of such private tinkering labs instead of professional ones, once we have the technology to build them ;).

Oh, gee, thanks for the ostrich.

So demanding we step back and try to find solutions that actually work, as opposed to asking everyone nicely to go out of their way for their fellow human being or possibly fictional future offspring, is now a reason for sending condescension my way.

Nice to know how much respect I can expect for trying to remain level-headed.

Did it occur to you that "the climate change itself isn't that much of a problem" does not equal "Let's do nothing about pollution and our extremely problematic consumption of resources!"?

Jesus fucking H Christ... Sometimes I understand mass murderers...

He didn't "put it" any way at all, besides disproving the points the original poster made.

It takes only one white crow to disprove that all of them are black. He did just that. With no word did he say that everything was peachy in the US.

Either I misunderstand you or you misunderstood your parent poster:

A LFTR reactor is still powered by Thorium... I believe even more so than this setup India i doing now, since a LFTR only needs a bit of uranium or plutonium to start the chain reaction.

But the really big difference is that the design of a LFTR is much less expensive and less dangerous.

The question remains: What keeps us from building them? The fact that they do not produce waste than can be weaponized? For a nuclear power like India, perhaps that was a factor.

Too bad, a LFTR would have made my day.

First: Wife's.
Second: Well, I stand corrected... it might not be bullshit that Win7 takes 20 gigs... but how is that relevant to my question? My wife does have windows running on such a disk with Office installed and mostly games diverted to a magnetic drive.

A freaking PC. Not a netbook. So why aren't 32 gigs not enough for a netbook?

Also, why are we talking about 32 gigs anyway? There are enough larger SSDs available that are quite affordable, aren't there?

Bullshit. My wive's PC runs on a 32 gig SSD (although userfiles are linked onto a magnetic disk).

You're clearly doing something wrong.

Frankly, on a netbook, how would Win7 be less comfortable on those 32 Gigs? Depending on what use you see for a netbook, of course. For me, it's not a mediaplayer and not a gaming rig. So what would I need more than 32 gigs for, even with Win7? Office does not produce files THAT bloated and my email account isn't that overfilled either.

You truly thought we were an intelligent species? Really, now?

I think you completely missed his point (or I am missing it and yours, too ;)).

I didn't see him saying a God is a more believable solution to our problems and questions. I also didn't see him state that scientists have not admitted they were wrong.

All he said was that many people treat science with the same dogmatic fervour others treat their deities with.
And on that count, he's absolutely right.

If you say that religious writings must be questioned because they have been created by humans, then questioning scientific studies must be allowed just as much, because they are human creations as well that can be influenced by other factors than merely wanting to find 'the truth'. Something they just want to find a very specific truth. One must remain wary of that.

On that note, intelligent design, in a true scientists eye, will hold the same merit as the theory of evolution until one of the two is supported by facts and a deeper understanding of the world. Both could, essentially, have a lot of support going, one could pull ahead only to be overtaken by the other again.

The point of science is to NEVER say "Well, we know enough now to not have to question it anymore, AT ALL!"

Sure, you can rest comfortably in the assumption that, with all the evidence, you're probably on the right track, but you simply MUST keep an open mind for new facts and arguments. THAT is science.