That is not odd news, that is good news.
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UK gets glowing salute from Bezos-backed General Fusion: Nuclear energy company to build plant in Oxfordshire
General Fusion – the Canadian-based atomic outfit backed by Jeff Bezos and a battalion of other major investors – is to build a test facility in Oxfordshire to showcase its power-generating technology.
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I was groaning internally until I re-read it and parsed it correctly as “fusion” instead of “fission.”
this is a really big deal, if they can figure out how to make it stable enough to be profitable. fingers crossed!
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Don’t use the condoms, wink, wink!
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Oh, working fusion reactors are just around the corner. A reassuring fixture.
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or, as it has been phrased elsewhere: possibly untrue science news.
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And another one with the Veritas threat.
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I hope that’s “280,000 times stronger, at distance X.”
(Yeah, one magnet isn’t going to outdo the entire magnetosphere.)
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Earlier this month Finland ranked first ahead of 160 other nations in the UN’s sustainable development league table, while in March the Nordic nation retained its title as the happiest country in the world.
This is weird:
The series is loosely based on the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave airing on BBC from 1990 to 2001.
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This elephant sticking his head through the kitchen wall above the sink reminds me of the kitchens in The Flintstones.
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Is she making a trunk call?
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When would a tiger need a trunk?
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When she’s going on a long vacation?
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