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Post by nautonnier on Sept 23, 2020 12:38:52 GMT
"BREAKING: Trump Bans U.S. From Doing Business With Those Who Promote ‘Harmful’ Far-Left Critical Race Theory
President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday afternoon that he has banned the U.S. government from doing business with people and companies who promote far-left critical race theory, noting that the ideology is “divisive and harmful.”
“A few weeks ago, I BANNED efforts to indoctrinate government employees with divisive and harmful sex and race-based ideologies,” Trump tweeted. “Today, I’ve expanded that ban to people and companies that do business with our Country, the United States Military, Government Contractors, and Grantees. Americans should be taught to take PRIDE in our Great Country, and if you don’t, there’s nothing in it for you!”"www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-bans-u-s-from-doing-business-with-those-who-promote-harmful-far-left-critical-race-theoryIt is worth reading through the Order as it seems to ensure that no government funding can go to anyone by any path that teaches the so called 'Critical Race Theory'. This will hit almost everyone in the USA including Universities looking for research grants or supporting industry in contracts. They could find themselves barred from any government funding which will create more than a little cognitive dissonance. And will add a small chapter to "critical grant theory". I have had the 'mandatory diversity training' given while I worked at a University - my research group was primarily non-US students with around 5 permanent staff. So there we were at this training and I was there with a Tanzanian (MS Space Physics), Egyptian (Ms Air Science) and a Venezuelan (MS Air Science and studying for MBA) - almost certainly the most diverse team in the university. They started waffling on about differences. So I said (to wind them up) well I felt different as I was English and I found some US things very different even down to having to remember to ask for ' hot' tea. I was told rather stiffly that of course I wasn't different. I replied "Ohhhh so you are not talking about racial or social differences you are talking about skin color!" (at which point I got a kick from my Venezuelan student and the Tanzanian whispered lets just let them talk then we can leave do something useful. Luckily, nobody tried 'critical race theory' or 'White fragility' or they would have found themselves a little more opposition. I have run teams of 20 or so with no more than 2 from any one country in Europe with additions of Iraquis, Iranians (at the same time) etc. It is like any team; you have to task people according to their strengths/weaknesses and know which ones need someone over their shoulder and which ones will blow a gasket if you hover over their shoulder That is a mix of expectations in the way their country do things and personal preferences. I really do not see what skin color has to do with it. Nigerians and Tanzanians and Sudanese let alone Tamils are all different and shouldn't be dropped into the 'black' box any more than Germans, Spanish and Irish should be dropped into the 'white' box.
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Post by gridley on Sept 23, 2020 12:41:28 GMT
"BREAKING: Trump Bans U.S. From Doing Business With Those Who Promote ‘Harmful’ Far-Left Critical Race Theory
President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday afternoon that he has banned the U.S. government from doing business with people and companies who promote far-left critical race theory, noting that the ideology is “divisive and harmful.”
“A few weeks ago, I BANNED efforts to indoctrinate government employees with divisive and harmful sex and race-based ideologies,” Trump tweeted. “Today, I’ve expanded that ban to people and companies that do business with our Country, the United States Military, Government Contractors, and Grantees. Americans should be taught to take PRIDE in our Great Country, and if you don’t, there’s nothing in it for you!”"www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-bans-u-s-from-doing-business-with-those-who-promote-harmful-far-left-critical-race-theoryIt is worth reading through the Order as it seems to ensure that no government funding can go to anyone by any path that teaches the so called 'Critical Race Theory'. This will hit almost everyone in the USA including Universities looking for research grants or supporting industry in contracts. They could find themselves barred from any government funding which will create more than a little cognitive dissonance. I don't like Trump. But every so often he does something I like. :-)
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 30, 2020 1:46:53 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 30, 2020 19:31:31 GMT
I think you would find that someone would come up with a reason why fusion was not acceptable. The entire thrust of the 'climate change' and 'net zero' and 'green new deal' is to limit energy availability. Hence Paul Ehrlich's famous quote: Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun. — Paul Ehrlich, biologist and author of The Population Bomb Indeed it would not surprise me in the least to find some globalist billionaires doing their best to buy out then bury any successful fusion projects.
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Post by phydeaux2363 on Sept 30, 2020 20:02:43 GMT
But, Mr., Naut. Without fusion power, how will humans get to the Sol Ring, and thence to other systems?
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 30, 2020 20:39:03 GMT
But, Mr., Naut. Without fusion power, how will humans get to the Sol Ring, and thence to other systems? With the rather overweight designs for fusion reactors I rather think that they may not be a lot of use. However, do not despair there is always the "Infinite improbability drive" "The Infinite Improbability Drive
In Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the spaceship Heart of Gold — which will lend its name to the SpaceX Mars Mission ship — uses an “Improbability Drive” to skip traveling through hyperspace by “using probability” to arrive at random locations throughout the universe. This means that if you enable the drive, it will take you somewhere completely unexpected every single time. You never know where you’ll end up. It makes for a good adventure, but it’s not exactly practical.
Weirdly enough, there is a kernel of scientific foundation for this type of device. Bear with me, because its a little tricky to grasp: According to the books, the drive was inspired by the fact that although particles are supposed to appear near the nucleus of an atom, there’s an infinitesimally small chance that these particles will sometimes be found far away from their point of origin. The scientists who built the Heart of Gold then theorized that the same concept could be applied to space travel, allowing a body to travel between locations without passing through the intervening space. Thus the improbability drive was born.
“Quantum physics actually shows that a particle might not be exactly where [one] would expect it to be. On the tiny scales that quantum physics describes, there’s something called the ‘probability distribution function’ for a particle’s location. It shows where the particle is most likely to be [but] that region extends out to farther distances, albeit with diminishing probability,” explained Millis."www.inverse.com/article/21247-heart-of-gold-space-ship-improbability-drive-science-fiction-nasa"Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" was written by Douglas Adams, His last book for the series was the "fifth book in the four part trilogy." If you don't have that type of humor then you may find the books difficult - but he was a scientist as well as author so as improbable as it sounds the drive may work.
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Post by nonentropic on Sept 30, 2020 21:03:04 GMT
Douglas Adams was a genius. As with all thing in quantum mechanics they don't scale up that well in fact the very notion of quantum mechanics evaporates in the low speed big world we live in.
Re Fusion I agree the left are not looking for a solution to an imagined problem CAGW and the proof is that gas would not be fighting with wind and solar it would be fighting with coal for market share and its not.
As Matt Ridley says Governments picking winners is the problem, Governments up till now only picked losers. So wind and solar are doomed. Fusion lives in the time and cost scale that only a Government can live in, but MSR and Thorium reactors are real candidates to compete with gas as an energy source. should a solution be wanted??
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Post by nautonnier on Sept 30, 2020 21:55:25 GMT
Douglas Adams was a genius. As with all thing in quantum mechanics they don't scale up that well in fact the very notion of quantum mechanics evaporates in the low speed big world we live in. Re Fusion I agree the left are not looking for a solution to an imagined problem CAGW and the proof is that gas would not be fighting with wind and solar it would be fighting with coal for market share and its not. As Matt Ridley says Governments picking winners is the problem, Governments up till now only picked losers. So wind and solar are doomed. Fusion lives in the time and cost scale that only a Government can live in, but MSR and Thorium reactors are real candidates to compete with gas as an energy source. should a solution be wanted?? I agree pebble bed or molten salt thorium reactors are the way forward. All research was stopped when the governments wanted the byproducts of fast breeder and PWR reactors for their atomic weapons. The idea of prefabricated town size reactors that can be built at a factory then assembled at the site would be a gane changer - which is probably why it has not been allowed.
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Post by nonentropic on Sept 30, 2020 23:12:55 GMT
If you think about it we have a country such as Iran building civilian nuclear reactors for electric power they cost a huge amount if you consider that Iran flares massive amounts of gas able to power a network of CC generators.
If they asked the US for a supply of a dozen of these units should they decommission their nuclear it would all be resolved in months.
Almost all nuclear programs in the world including the west have at their core a nuclear weapons program aspiration, MSR consume the PWR and fast breeder out puts well sold the greens should be behind them. They wont be because people will be better for it.
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Post by nonentropic on Oct 1, 2020 18:56:18 GMT
will Fusion be part of a developed future, almost certainly yes, but maybe a better something comes through.
So the apparent timeline is 20 years plus and with a significant role out being 50 years.
so the smart money says gas then advanced fission then maybe fusion or the next big thing.
The possibility is that we will be in caves and the forest being hunted by the Chinese who have nuclear powered everything or gas for small stuff.
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Post by Ratty on Oct 2, 2020 2:04:56 GMT
will Fusion be part of a developed future, almost certainly yes, but maybe a better something comes through. So the apparent timeline is 20 years plus and with a significant role out being 50 years. so the smart money says gas then advanced fission then maybe fusion or the next big thing. The possibility is that we will be in caves and the forest being hunted by the Chinese who have nuclear powered everything or gas for small stuff.
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Post by nautonnier on Oct 11, 2020 21:42:55 GMT
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Post by walnut on Oct 12, 2020 1:02:17 GMT
These remind me of headlines over the last 30 years declaring a breakthrough in economical nuclear fusion.
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Post by nautonnier on Oct 12, 2020 1:38:01 GMT
These remind me of headlines over the last 30 years declaring a breakthrough in economical nuclear fusion. I have been assured that commercial nuclear fusion will be a reality within the next 10 years. [The first such assurance was in the 1990's]
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Post by Ratty on Oct 12, 2020 11:22:50 GMT
[ Snip ] I have been assured that commercial nuclear fusion will be a reality within the next 10 years. [The first such assurance was in the 1990's] So will an ice free Arctic. Hmmmmm ..... there could be a connection.
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