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Comment It is "only 20 years away" for about 50 years now. (Score 2) 112

We hear the same excuses for like 50 years now. Is this some kind of scam?
https://www.space.com/when-wil...

Here is a late Dr. Robert Bussard presentation at "Google Talks" about some fatal design flaws of ITER type reactors and possibility achieve fusion much simpler thanks to inertial electrostatic confinement fusion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment EU plastic pollution isn't significant (Score 4, Informative) 49

Fragment from this article:
https://www.scientificamerican...

Rivers collectively dump anywhere from 0.47 million to 2.75 million metric tons of plastic into the seas every year, depending on the data used in the models. The 10 rivers that carry 93 percent of that trash are the Yangtze, Yellow, Hai, Pearl, Amur, Mekong, Indus and Ganges Delta in Asia, and the Niger and Nile in Africa. The Yangtze alone dumps up to an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of plastic waste into the Yellow Sea.

Ban on plastic straws or glitter is just idiotic in such circumstances.

Comment What about some stable drivers first? (Score 1) 56

I'm using TB4 capable HP Elitebook laptop which is connected via USB-C cable to Philips 5K2K UltraWide monitor. Monitor is connected to LAN with the Ethernet cable.
Unfortunately the LAN connection which I got on laptop via the USB-C cable is unstable (it hangs few times per day) due to buggy Realtek USB GbE Family Controller driver in Windows 10. This is happening for all kinds of TB4 capable laptops regardless of what kind of external monitor or docking station is being used. It is just a crappy Realtek driver for Ethernet over USB-C.

Any chance to get it fixed? I don't care for any additional TB5 bandwidth if this still will be hanging a lot.

Comment Phage Therapy for drug-resistant strains (Score 5, Informative) 18

It is not well known but there is alternative method of treating antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria based on bacteriophages (phages in short) which is very effective (having 80-90% success rate) and fairy cheap. Probably few millions of lives could be saved yearly if this information would be more propagated.
Here in Poland we have few specialized treatment units (regular hospitals with normal doctors) which are specializing in phage therapy. They are accepting patients from abroad as well:
https://hirszfeld.pl/en/struct...

Comment That is why space mining is so important (Score 1, Interesting) 45

Just one Psyche 16 planetoid got enough metal to cover whole planet needs for one MILION years, assuming current metal consumption.
I think that it could be possible to slowly change Psyche 16 orbit using nuclear powered kinetic launch systems like SpinLaunch mounted on its surface. Additionally, in such way initial metal payloads could be delivered near the Earth orbit and intercepted there. Finally, after long trip, Psyche could be moved to one of Earth-Sun or Earth-Moon Lagrangian points and parked there. Thanks to this heavy industry could me moved from Earth into space into close vicinity of the such almost undepletable metal source.

Comment Typical eco-terrorism (Score 1) 101

It is quite common in EU, especially in countries which are dependent on russian fossil fuels. There are plenty of "ecological" organisations which are founded by Russia with goal to block and protest any energy sources which are not controlled or dominated by Russia. For example this is how "natural gas" become greener than nuclear plants in Germany.

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