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Comment Re:Location Location Location (Score 1) 161

Actually the austrian situation is different, the mobile phone usage is more than 100% since literally everyone has one contract and a lot of people have more than one.
The phone boxes over the last decade have been severely reduced, some have been dedicated to internet / telephone stations...
I think the charging is first thought as charging station for electricity powered bikes and other small vehicles.

Comment Re:Not the only conservative views he's pushed (Score 1) 617

actually showing through reasoned argument why a republic is the pinnacle of government

Because it is based on the consent of the governed while making mob rule deliberately difficult, and doesn't involve giving government power or prestige to people simply because they were born into a given family. Of course those things are self-evident, and you already knew them. I'd say the burden is on you to explain why inherited power over other people's lives is a more rational approach.

Comment Re:And nothing could possibly go wrong... (Score 1) 372

We don't have to invent anything for an automated mine-factory as opposed to fusion plants.

Starting fusion is one thing. Sustaining it, injecting fuel, collecting the resulting energy is a common problem for almost all fusion schemes. For ICF figuring out how to fire the lasers 10 times a second, manufacturing pellets, targeting them, keeping them cool, keeping the star chamer clean are very big causes for head ache. For ITER and other tokamak designs keeping the magnets cooled, collecting energy from the resulting neutrons are the big problems.

At the end the episode of BBC's Horizon which deals with the NIF best guesstimates for commercial fusion is 2040.

I'm not saying we shouldn't pursure fusion, but in 30 years we could make quite a few round trips into space and spread out a few square kilometers of thin film PV and support mirror material.

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