On 20 Jan 2007 19:11:19 -0800, "an_old_friend"
wrote in .com:

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not every penny with any kind of crash program you get lots of waste
and bad results (witness our efforts to buy our way out of the
vproblems we sufer from in Homeland security and there I am not sure we
are being ripped off so much as pushinng from intersting prototype to
production WAY too fast)


There have been lots of crash programs that have been hugely
successful; one of them put a man on the moon.


but even fuision isn't needed that badly serious pursuit of Fission
tecjh we already have could make a BIG difference but fission like
fusion seems to suffer to suffer from the fact that the word bomb got
attached to them

indeed in college I work on Nuclear magnetic resoance scanner we had
BIG trouble geting funding till some bright eye got the idea of Calling
it Magentic Resonace scaning, then funding and production fast. indeed
I currently suspect we have had that tech years before if the word
"nuclear" had not appeared in our grant proposals


True, it has the dogma of being "nuclear". That's a public perception
issue. But in case you haven't noticed, public perception is easily
manipulated -- that's how politicians get elected.