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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (442971)	12/29/2008 11:54:38 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574854

The laser fusion lab sounds promising, but that's no excuse to get ahead of reality. This is a lab for experiments which may or may not lead to anything practical, and likely not in the near future. I only wish so-called "science correspondents" in the media resist the urge to hype this stuff up. I suppose it depends on one's time horizon...but I understand your point. Al

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (442971)	12/29/2008 1:01:40 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1574854

The laser fusion lab sounds promising, but that's no excuse to get ahead of reality. This is a lab for experiments which may or may not lead to anything practical, and likely not in the near future. I only wish so-called "science correspondents" in the media resist the urge to hype this stuff up. That was my point with commenting on having seen the remark 20 years ago. Yes, it is a different technology, but the excitement was palpable then. As I mentioned it was big enough to get the headline above the fold in the Dallas Morning News. I read it with great excitement, as did everyone else. The physicists in the office where I worked all thought it was a bit preliminary at the time. But we see this kind of shoddy journalism all the time. Consider the field of Medicine, where new cancer cures have been bandied about routinely for decades. Occasionally, one pans out. But most die on the vine.