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Comment Re:The "record" only goes back 75 years (Score 1) 75

It sure is a pity that there's not multiple types of evidence from biological and geological data that corroborates and extends thermometer readings.

Oh wait, there is.

Let me save you the effort of your predictable reply: "I don't believe any of it. It's all bullshitt!!!!!!! Naah naah!!!"

Comment Re:Maybe the Marshal Islands should go nuclear (Score 1) 18

This great conflation of fission power generation with nuclear weapons is the reason the only realistic solution to climate change is sitting on a dusty shelf.

Historically, any given nation's level of interest in the former has been strongly correlated with their desire to develop the latter. It's been means to an end.

Comment Re:Will this make glowing watched cheaper? (Score 3, Informative) 51

If you want a fusion power reactor, by far the most viable fuel is D+T. You'd need orders of magnitude more tritium than is could ever be extracted from trace fission byproducts.

The idea to obtain this much tritium is to use the extra neutrons from the fusion reactor itself to breed it from lithium. This is supposedly a demonstration of that process.

Comment Re:400m more LInux desktops -- Year of Linux Final (Score 2) 116

I think anti trust still loomed when they had their best shot at mobile too.

When they had windows mobile and Xbox was the largest console in the US I thought for sure they'd be able to dominate.

I basically pictured them using a Microsoft account to allow for the phone to participate in Xbox chat and let people talk to their gaming friends on the go. It seemed like a no brainer to me that they could dominate chat, have significant phone penetration with gamers, and keep people a reason to stick with the Xbox ecosystem.

Instead they went with Skype and a weak mobile effort neither integrated with Xbox.

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