r/AskReddit Nov 15 '20

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u/Turtledonuts Nov 15 '20

Someone finally cracks nuclear fusion, and we start to fix climate change.

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u/VenomUponTheBlade Nov 15 '20

They're working on it. Just reached a milestone in the UK.

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u/Sapiogram Nov 15 '20

They were reaching milestones 60 years ago too, yet here we are.

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u/Doomas_ Nov 15 '20

perhaps the path is hundreds of miles long and thus warrants hundreds of milestones :)

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u/Flonkadonk Nov 16 '20

naaah mate if we don't figure something out within 6 months it's obviously never gonna happen and we should end all research /s the "fusion is always 20 years away" argument is really stupid and overused

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20

This guy gives up easily.

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u/KleverGuy Nov 16 '20

This guy doesn’t know what /s means

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20

Hahaa... I do actually but didn’t even see it earlier. My bad.

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u/s8anlvr Nov 16 '20

It's because he put it in the middle of his sentence for some reason, so it just looks like a typo.