[perl4ever]

I think I may have said this before, but a statement like "we're likely hundreds of years away from aneutronic fusion" seems to me necessarily meaningless.

We're only a bit over a hundred years from developing quantum mechanics and relativity, how can we possibly say anything about hundreds of years from now?

If something is well enough understood to accurately predict the timeline, we could do it much sooner.

If we have no idea how to do something, then "hundreds of years" means nothing, except maybe "not proven impossible yet".