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fetcheveryone 8 Feb 2:23pm, 8 Feb 2024 30,151 posts	0 fetcheveryone I remember AI being a while away too
rf_fozzy 8 Feb 2:23pm, 8 Feb 2024 21,540 posts	0 rf_fozzy Given it hasn't been shown to work on an experimental scale, never mind anyone developing a commerical working prototype, nor anyone even thinking about safety parameters and regulations, any talk of any commercial station is to put it bluntly, bullshitting.
rf_fozzy 8 Feb 2:28pm, 8 Feb 2024 21,541 posts	0 rf_fozzy To give an idea of scale, Fission was demonstrated experimentally in 1934. The first commercial nuclear fission power plant was built in 1956. We haven't even demonstrated it works experimentally yet. That's not to say it's not worth doing, it is. But anyone expecting anything this side of at least 2050 is just deluding themselves.
jda 8 Feb 2:49pm, 8 Feb 2024 16,427 posts	0 jda AI still is a long way away Synthetic bullshit generation, on the other hand, has been around since Eliza. Since then I think we've learnt more about the gullibility of humans than we have about the ability of machines to behave intelligently.
fetcheveryone 8 Feb 2:56pm, 8 Feb 2024 30,152 posts	0 fetcheveryone 👍
Nellers 8 Feb 2:58pm, 8 Feb 2024 42,132 posts	0 Nellers And talking of gullibility we’re going to have fusion power commercially before the next election innit.😉
HappyG(rrr) 8 Feb 3:55pm, 8 Feb 2024 49,325 posts	0 HappyG(rrr) "UK’s prototype fusion energy plant which aims to be built by 2040...." so 16 years away according to the UK Atomic Energy Authority / government...? G
rf_fozzy 8 Feb 4:02pm, 8 Feb 2024 21,542 posts	0 rf_fozzy lol. BS Hinckley Point C construction began in 2016/7 and will be lucky to be completed by 2030. en.wikipedia.org And that's for a fusion design that already has been constructed at other plants (albeit always with massive cost overruns and delays). en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
jda 8 Feb 4:05pm, 8 Feb 2024 16,428 posts	0 jda It'll be up and running just after those 40 hospitals are completed.
Diogenes 8 Feb 4:07pm, 8 Feb 2024 84,461 posts	0 Diogenes Is that when we get all that money back promised on the side of the bus?

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I thought it would be cool to have a science thread. The idea being to share cool science that you've found out about. Or maybe to ask science questions that you don't know the answer to. Or science answers that you don't know the question to. It doesn't have to be highly complex stuff, it can just be everyday stuff that you can explain with science e.g. why do we get condensation on the inside of windows? But it can also be complex stuff. Or Youtube videos you've found ...

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