Re: OT: Chinese tokamak

On 20/09/2024 2:00 am, john larkin wrote:

On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:50:40 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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On a sunny day (Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:41:35 -0700) it happened john larkin
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On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:49:30 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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The US led on nuclear fusion for decades.
Now China is in position to win the race:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/19/climate/nuclear-fusion-clean-energy-china-us/index.html
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China's EAST tokamak in Hefei held plasma stable at 70 million degrees Celsius
- five times hotter than the core of the sun - for more than 17 minutes,
a world record and an objectively astonishing breakthrough.

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Sounds expensive and useless, like the Chinese moon landings.

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Feed the kids first.

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Once they have Mars they will ask for you 'merrican tourists to pay in Chinese currency and feed their kids
in the Martian settlements with stuff they import from Russia.
By that time chances are likely 'merrica's You Ash of AAAAh will no longer be,...
just a few settlements...grasshuts, wigwams, greens ruling.
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China is not doing bad feeding and housing their people,
US homelesness and poverty is
https://www2.cbn.com/news/us/china-moves-dominate-world-food-supply-food-power

 The real concept there is not "food", it's "dominate."
 https://www.wfp.org/countries/china
 Communism always evolves to rule by psychopathic thugs.

The you need to explain Gorbachov, who wasn't any kind of psychopathic thug.

A lot of the US homeless problem is caused by Chinese drugs. By
design.

Please explain how the Chinese satisfying the US demand for drugs of addiction is part of some cunning Chinese plan to over-throw the US.
The US homelessness problem is caused by the US addiction to gross economic inequality. The bottom end of the US economic pyramid lead miserable lives which does make them susceptible to drugs of addiction, but that market is supplied by the whole world, not just China.
It is essentially created by well-off Americans insisting on being much more well-off than their poorer neighbours, and that isn't a feature that was designed into the US system - rather it's a fundamental flaw of a system designed on the basis that the people that owned the country should control the country.
A large market for drugs of addiction - as well as weakness for lying demagogues like Donald Trump - is part and parcel of the US constitutional set-up, which always was the MS/DOS of modern political system, and is severely in need of an up-grade.
The German constitution of 1948 is probably the best example around. The French constitution from 1956 is ostensibly more modern, but De Gaulle fudged it to suit his own silly ideas, and it really doesn't work all that well.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney