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Screw GM. They had 32 years to develop a decent battery. Look what they did instead.
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Um, how about 'interpret' the constitution. Those old farts who signed that thing couldn't forsee our technological advances, much less their implications. Many were slaveholders, for goodness sake. Don't treat the constitition like the ignorant agnostic's Bible! It's not the word of god or even particularly well trained or educated men. Not to mention the absence of Women's input.
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I thought that was already installed... and functioning...
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Be careful what you ask for. An 'intelligent computer' voting system would be trained to make decisions for itself. We might have rational leaders selected on our behalf by intelligent computers!
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Absolutely. If we can split the smallest subatomic particles and send rovers to Mars, we can develop a decent battery. The fact that Tesla is suffering funding setbacks is just extremely frustrating!
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I agree. Of course, Obama risks coming across as another Jimmy Carter, who was such an earnest and thoughtful engineer that people scoffed at him. Is there some way to make metric badass?
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You are describing *applied* reserach, not 'fundamental' research. Fundamental research is things like particle colliders and molecular biology. There is a place for the DARPAs, but not when basic science is so sparsely funded (and subject to faith-based decisions!).
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I've always loved this idea, but ever since Kim Stanley Robinson pointed out that it'd be an easy target for terrorism I realized it'd be extremely tough sell politically.
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Just the opposite. Stop subsidizing gas, allow Americans to feel what fuel really costs. That pressure will speed dev. of alt. energy. Excuse me, but what the f*&k have GM and Ford been doing for the last 32 years (since the Carter energy crisis)? If the only obstacle to electric cars is a decent battery and they couldn't be bothered, why should we bail 'em out? Let the gas economy go to hell!
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Screw GM. They've had 32 years since the Carter-era gas crisis and all they had to do was develop a decent battery. Look what they did instead! They're partly responsible for our economy sinking like a concrete-filled hummer in lake Michigan.