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Well they say they should have a working prototype running next year, so it'll be fairly quick that we'll see.  And it makes sense that it would be a major military contractor like Lockheed that would figure it out, since the military, especially the navy, has an interest in small but powerful power sources.

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I think the current problem at the moment however is getting the big versions to work (well, produce more than they consume, nuclear fusion isn't something out of our grasp, just effective fusion) before shrinking it down.

 

(Also I know America leans more towards military than most other nations but I'm not seeing the sense in a military contractor figuring it out over energy companies and everyone else that's been ploughing billions into the tech over the years making fusion reactors. Especially when Lockheed say they've only been at it 4 years)

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an ultralight aerogel has been invented that is 7 times lighter than air. It's the lightest material in the world, but... if it's seven times lighter than air why doesn't it float?

I remember reading about that...supposedly Graphene will one day be used for phones and screens....

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Dat math. God damn. Even botched this is incredible.

 

 

Yeah, watching that blew my fucking mind.  Like, this thing is basically just a rifle bullet fired in such a way as to exactly hit a target 10 years later and millions of miles away.

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Five years old, but still cool:  As a celebration of their 50th anniversary the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crash tested a 1959 Chevy Bel Air vs. a 2009 Chevy Malibu.

 

 

The most amazing thing to me is how much better the passenger compartment holds together in the newer car.

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My colleague was in a car crash end of last year. Was surprised how little damage (beyond shaken up) she took, when the front side of the car was totally caved in. I was trying to explain to her that being the point of modern car design, sacrifice the car and keep harm to a minimum for the passenger (not that the car above has fair too well either, though I know some older car designs made the car very solid, thus passing all shock and damage to the spongy passengers within)

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