Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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How is this anymore "crackpot" than other approaches to fusion that are being conducted at other labs and universities?
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Hey, pal let me clear this up, I hate scientists, all of them, I just cannot stand that people who think highly of scientists. I think all the stuff is crackpot. Dark energy is crap. Dark matter, ya sure. Don't get me started on this quantum computing junk. Why LANL ever had quantum computing work is beyond me, at least the got rid of most of it 15 years, since we all know no progress is being made in this area. Now we have some group trying "Fusion" this is just crackpot
The labs do bombs, that is all they do and all they should do. The science is already done. Unless it is mission critical we do not need it at the labs. Fusion is DOE work not NNSA work, quantum is Google work, not NNSA, Dark Matter work is a waste of taxpayer money and should be done at Universities. Epidemics, fuel cells, HIV, astrophysics, balloons, earthquakes, Chaos have no place in an NNSA lab, none. The whole idea that the NNSA labs are "science labs" is nonsense we are nuclear national security labs, got that. We are not even national security labs. Get with the mission or get out.