• @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    I always take these ‘scientists discover…’ articles with a pinch of salt, but Cambridge is pretty encouraging.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      “Scientists discover” isn’t the story you’re really looking for, it’s “Engineers design and tradespeople build a scalable pilot plant”.

      Scientists long have discovered ways to transmute lead into gold. The only problem is they have to do it one atom at a time at massive expense using the world’s most expensive equipment. They discovered how to do it, but it isn’t worth doing for something as pedestrian as gold.

  • @queermunist
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    31 year ago

    “Yes, ordinary water, laced with nothing more than a few spoonfuls of LSD.”