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by sverige 3252 days ago
2050? Maybe they can run their systems on GNU Hurd then.

(</sarcasm> I've been hearing how fusion reactors are "just around the corner" since I was a teenager, at least 40 years now.)

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That's actually a standard joke in fusion research: "Always 20 years away."

Although it looks like they're updating their model to be more accurate, as now it appears to be "Always 30 years away."

I cannot wait to play Half-Life 3 on GNU/HURD!

Joking aside, fusion research is infamously underfunded. At the current rate, it may never come to fruition.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/U.S._his...