I wrote; And Ed Storms responded;
Well Thomas, I give "hot fusion" a 0 chance for success for the following reasons:
I was giving the designers the benefit of the doubt when I gave them a 5% chance of success. Perhaps they have come up with some new wrinkle that you are unaware of. Barring that however, there chances of success are closer to your estimate.
As for your cheap shot about liberals, the word no longer has a useful meaning other than to provide a way to insult people who still have an ideal view of government
I have suggested on several occasions that you visit Dennis Prager's website www.dennisprager.com and take his "are you a liberal quiz". It will give you some insights into what the word liberal has come to mean, regardless of what you think it means.
Last Thursday Dennis was interviewing the retired Episcopal bishop John Spong, AKA The Heretic Spong. Following the interview, Dennis spent an hour commenting on the incoherence of the liberal mind. This included some comments on The Heretic and some on the Italian journalist Oriana Filochi who is facing trial in Italy for making disparaging remarks about Islam, and throat cancer. Ms. Filochi is a leftist and an atheist, and Dennis is a Bushie supporter and a Religious Jew, so it's curious that they should agree on anything. That area of agreement a leftist notion called cultural relativism (the idea that all cultures are all equally good) which is leading to cultural suicide. It has been suggested that leftists are possessed with a self loathing, which is responsible for these suicidal tendencies.
Dennis said that most academics, outside of the physical sciences, write incoherently, and that academic composers produce discordant music. Dennis believes that this is a reflection of their incoherent minds. The same thing applies to lawyers and politicians who are hamstringing our police and military in their fight against the enemy who wants to conquer us.
The Salem Radio Hosts in general, and Dennis in particular, are beginning to realize that this incoherence extends into the physical sciences too. This is no surprise to me, since I have witnessed Parksie's continuing attacks on Intelligent Design and Holistic Medicine, and his unflagging support of hot fusion.
IMHO, the Hot Fusion efforts are another example of this mental incoherence. The liberal theologian, from whose website it copied the URL for the fusion reactor had glowing reviews about unlimited amounts of pollution free energy. Now I realize that he was just repeating what he was told, but someone gave this technological turkey the glowing reviews. Meanwhile, Chris Arnold and Mark Goldes are out begging for a few hundred thousand in order to pursue another method, which might just work.
and human interaction. The word "conservative" used to describe such people. Now the conservative is someone who believes in self interest and insists that everyone else share their self interest, whether it be religious belief or economic approach. This attitude is gradually eliminating conventional freedoms and producing an economic system that favors the truly rich, while fooling other people into thinking that they are actually rich or will become rich.
The Republican Party is divided into three groups, the capitalists, the imperialists, and the people of faith. People of faith Conservatives still believe that everything would be better if people looked out for their own self interest. There's more to this controversy than wanting wealth Ed. It's a fundamental clash of World views. But more importantly, "Liberalism's Achilles Heel is it's inability to confront evil," this is a quote from Daniel Patrick Monahan, who was no Republican. This inability is yet another manifestation of the incoherence of the Liberal mind. It wouldn't be a problem except that we are facing an external enemy who is dedicated to our destruction.
