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To: Windflier
On an earlier thread, it was stated that Lockheed-Martin intends to have a working prototype online by 2017.

IIRC, they said the same thing in 1958 in the UK where they were going to have a ZETA fusion reactor online in that year. It would be nice but until it delivers what it promises, I will remain a it skeptical. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it, but from the 1940's onward, we always got "punk'd" when it came to atomic fusion.
37 posted on 10/15/2014 10:27:27 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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To: Nowhere Man
It would be nice but until it delivers what it promises, I will remain a it skeptical.

I hear ya, but this isn't some unknown start-up making this claim. These guys are home to the world famous Skunk Works, who built the SR-71 and the F-117 Blackbird (and lord only knows what else).

Their many innovations have powered our military's technical advantage for 70 years or more.

I feel your skepticism, but I don't take such a statement from folks with that kind of credibility lightly.

49 posted on 10/16/2014 11:26:55 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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