[Wes Tausend]

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Mike,

Heck, $3.5 billion (ed. was "million") isn't so bad if it can be used to kill:

"...A Livermore-based group called Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment said in a statemen that the NIF was $4 billion over budget, 9 years behind schedule and was also built to help design future nuclear weapons..."
I mean as far as weapon costs usually go.

And slowing down (ed. was "speeding up") light is a pretty good trick:

"...Eventually turning ultraviolet, the beams push a million miles an hour toward the tiny hydrogen-fuel pellet in the center..."

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Ron,

Cold fusion?? Isn't that a little bit like cold fire?
What're we going to heat up with it to extract energy? Maybe turn some lead into gold. But everybody will be doing it.

We could safely build some nuclear plants in Russia. I hear there is a vodka and radiation resistant strain of humans emerging there. Three arms and can breathe, drink vodka under water etc. VRM claims he lived in England.

I wonder about the "hot" container items. I once had a 6 axled flat car (99.9% are 4 axles) at the head of my train. The manifest didn't actually say what was in it, but when folks asked , I told them it said something about Little Man and Fatboy. Whatever the huge cylinder vault really was, it was heavy.

One of the things I really liked about McCain was his enthusiasm for developing nuclear power. Apparently works pretty good on Carriers, something he is very familiar with.

Wes

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