lol, no I’m not from the 50s, just a modern day guy with a nuclear engineering degree that works in the nuclear power industry. And I clearly know more about what we’re talking about here based on your awful comment.

The USB Lithium series battery may be that cheap, but these things don’t run on those batteries. They run on the 18V One+ system, and the cheapest you can find a 18V One+ battery at Home Depot is $50 for a 1.5Ah battery...without a charger. The cheapest option with a charger is $90 for a 2Ah battery and charger.…

These almost certainly do not have Remote ID transmit capabilities. However, the new rule only applies to drones heavier than 250 grams (0.55 lbs). So if these are lighter than that (and with advertised flying times of 9 and 12 minutes, I’m guessing they don’t have a particularly heavy battery and thus could slide in…

These “net energy gain” (with absolutely massive air quotes) experiments don’t really do anything to inform future work on anything but inertial confinement systems. That branch of technology has been effectively abandoned by researchers actually trying to find a way to produce power. There’s nothing to apply this…

“you’d know that one can paradoxically both support and not support the dropping of the bombs”

NIF estimated roughly 15 per second to set up a theoretical 400MW generation station. Then they shuttered the program that was supposed to figure how to do that, cuz seriously how the heck are you really gonna do 1.3 million shots per day?

Yep, the same lab. Note their reference to their “crucial mission-driven commitments”? That’s nuclear weapons research. That’s what they’re focused on. Which is why the rest of that statement is a whole bunch of defense related issues (nuclear deterrence, counterterrorism, nonproliferation, defense and and…

Nah, you don’t. I mean, your stance is patently devoid of any nuance. It’s the simplistic black and white, yes or no type stance you’d see out of a young child.  Jingoism at its finest.  

This technology definitely isn’t the answer to anything you’ve mentioned.  It’s for weapons research, and the method of fusion isn’t scalable to power production, which is why actual fusion power researchers abandoned it long ago.  

This won’t help anyone. It’s not a viable power production method, it’s for nuclear weapons research. You can’t scale it up to make power, everyone who does research on power production abandoned inertial confinement designs years ago, and for good reason.

This entire line of research, inertial confinement, has been essentially abandoned for power production, and that’s for good reason. It’s not scalable, you can’t take this concept and turn it into anything that will be make power at an industrial scale. This was a physics breakthrough by a lab that does nuclear weapons…

This breakthrough doesn’t move us any closer to fusion power. Inertial confinement like this is a dead end for power production, it’s not scalable. (It’s also not actually anywhere close to a net gain in energy yet, since we currently spend a couple orders of magnitutude more energy than the fuel absorbs for each shot,…

Would be a waste of money if you’re interested in power. This line of research is effectively a dead end for power production. It’s not scalable, there’s no real way to make it a continuous process or to make it happen quickly enough to actually produce power. It’s worth remembering what the NIF’s job is. Their job is…

I think it’s less a lack of ethics, but more an acknowledgment that ethics are not set in stone. It’s easy to look back from our relatively peaceful time and decry the actions taken to end WW2, but we haven’t seen our entire countries razed or buried 400,000 sons/husbands/fathers. In that context, perhaps a quick, if…

I think you’re missing lots of the deeper discussion in that video. Even just the last little bit drawing distinction between the Empire of Japan and the people living on this cities is pretty poignant. It’s ok to acknowledge that what happened was a tragedy. I myself do, even though I agree that the bombs saved…

I don’t think any official documentation actually acknowledges the use of Schlicke’s infrared fuses in either of the two drops. It’s broadly reported they used a combination of a clock timer fuse, barometric pressure fuse, and radar fuse in those drops.  

It actually IS a binary state. It either exists or it doesn’t exist. Did CGI kill it? No. It didn’t. It changed what the final products look like, and what tools are used, but the industry still exists.

Say what now? No, that wasn’t even the subtext of the comment. Many wailed about CGI being the death knell for visual effects artists, but it wasn’t. That’s the whole point. There’s no subtext that the current setup is particularly good or non-exploitative or anything. It’s simply an acknowledgement that visual…

You’re not wrong. But you also missed the point. 

Take the smallest view that contains all three chunks and try to do what the other commenters is saying. You can’t. What you’re suggesting is breaking up the pattern into pieces and looking for sub-patterns that repeat. That’s different than a repeating pattern. There are only so many ways you can combine a finite…