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EclecticKant t1_iwo525u wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Laser-driven fusion’s internal energies not matching up with predictions: There's a change in behavior when the plasma starts burning, and nobody knows why by DoremusJessup

We are spending so little on "trying to create stars" that, if we don't succeed, aliens won't even be able to tell that we tried. We spend more on most of the most famous sports, we spent more on the football world cup of this year than the entire world spent in fusion research for the last 70 years, we spend a lot of money on absolutely useless things, and you complain about spending an insignificant amount on something that could be a civilization game changer.

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EclecticKant t1_iwoadoy wrote

Luckily we are able to do multiple things at the same time, trying to save the planet and fusion research.

> I don't recall saying we spent too much money on it.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but doesn't this

> I suggested that maybe we are too arrogant to believe it can be done at all, ergo we should turn our planet saving efforts toward other means.

Mean "we shouldn't be spending our resources on fusion research, and focus those resources on other means to save the planet"? To me it sounds like a suggestion that we spend/spent too much money on fusion, and that we should spend them elsewhere.

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