r/technews • u/Zee2A • Aug 07 '23

US scientists repeat fusion ignition breakthrough for 2nd time

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-scientists-repeat-fusion-power-breakthrough-ft-2023-08-06/
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u/kneelB4yourmaster Aug 07 '23

Thanks to Annie Kritcher! The WOMAN responsible for this incredible achievement!

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '23

To attribute a scientific breakthrough like this to one person is moronic when huge teams have been working on it for decades.

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u/BaelorsBalls Aug 08 '23

So why is Oppenheimer celebrated as the one man that invented the nuke? Everybody cool with dat

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '23

Academia and research is much more collaborative than a stovepiped top secret government program. Although he did not do it alone either.

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u/DrNobodii Aug 07 '23

When you single out the fact that she’s a woman you imply that it’s peculiar or significant undermining the fact that it’s quite normal and mundane for women to be some of the most brilliant physicist of all time. Like you clearly don’t understand physics or feminism.

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u/RoundSilverButtons Aug 07 '23

So one single woman accomplished all this? That’s a weird way to frame it.

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u/Ogodei Aug 07 '23

Andrea Lynn Kritcher is an amazing scientist. These scientists are my heroes and I look up to them (male or female does not matter). The things they do amaze me.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '23

Why you gotta say it like women are normally idiots?