Just imagine where we would be today if the 3.5 billion in construction, and the brain power that was used to construct NIF had been used to advance the nuclear energy industry. Just imagine the implications in terms of national economic security, reduced dependence on foreign energy sources, and the trending to a significant reduction in green house gases. There were two ways NIF could sink LLNL, one was to succeed, the other was to fail. Yep, NIF is a success, but so was the TITANIC.
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Nice try at a cheap attack. In many ways the Titanic was a great success. It was the largest ship of its time and paved the way for all future ship designs. An unknown unknown sank the Titanic it was not something that could be foreseen. In any case if with its sinking the Titanic can be seen as success with all the movies, fame, and stories, so much so that they are actually making a new Titanic right now. It has a legacy that will live on. NIF is no different it will change how every future design will be, it will explore the unknown unknowns and there will be a positive lasting legacy one way or another.
HaHa. Very funny. I'd have thought that the various seagoing cultures populating the North Atlantic probably saw one or two during their fishing and whaling work! I'll give you that iceberg monitoring was first established for shipping safety in response to the Titanic, a couple of years later. But "discovery of the iceberg? HeHeHe.
"HaHa. Very funny. I'd have thought that the various seagoing cultures populating the North Atlantic probably saw one or two during their fishing and whaling work! I'll give you that iceberg monitoring was first established for shipping safety in response to the Titanic, a couple of years later. But "discovery of the iceberg? HeHeHe.
April 23, 2013 at 3:07 PM"
The poster did mean the icebergs where first discovered by the Titanic, however the danger that icebergs pose to large ships was discovered by the Titanic. In many ways it is science, you need to do the experiment to know. People did not expect to Titanic to sink, but it did and we learned a whole lot that has served every generation of shipbuilding and navigation since than. In the same we expected that NIF get ignition but in the absence of ignition we have learned a whole lot that will serve the future generations of scientists and engineers
April 24, 2013 at 8:29 PM
You need the Nazis to "help you"?? Where have we heard that before??
April 24, 2013 at 11:05 PM"
The point is that we need to keep NIF going so that the people on the Titanic that died will not have died in vain.
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One giant leap for mankind: £13bn Iter project makes breakthrough in quest for nuclear fusion, a solution to climate change and an age of clean, unlimited energy
The UK Independent, April 26, 2013
It may be the most ambitious scientific venture ever: a global collaboration to create an unlimited supply of clean, cheap energy. And this week it took a crucial step forward.
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Oh wait, maybe then LLNL itself will disappear.
Never mind.