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Hey, I'm collecting money for my expedition to see what's beyond the ice wall. I hope this will be more successful than the last expedition I sent, this time I'm sending them with a starlink terminal.


What’s your best source link for the NSF researchers alleged to have disappeared there for two weeks back in the 1990s?


OK, I looked at their web site and couldn't find how they were supposed to be reaching fusion. Can anyone here point me in the right direction?


The first link on their site is alchemy.pdf behind announced a solution. Maybe read that? (40 pages) Or not, because here is the abstract ;)

Abstract A scalable approach for chrysopoeia—the transmutation of base metals into gold—has been pursued for millennia. While there have been small-scale demon- strations in particle accelerators and proposals involving thermal neutron capture, no economically attractive approach has yet been identified. We show a new scalable method to synthesize stable gold (197Au) from the abundant mer- cury isotope 198Hg using (n, 2n) reactions in a specialized neutron multiplier layer of a fusion blanket. Reactions are driven by fast 14 MeV neutrons provided by a deuterium-tritium fusion plasma, which are uniquely capable of enabling the desired reaction pathway at scale. Crucially, the scheme identified here does not negatively impact electricity production, and is also compatible with the challenging tritium breeding requirements of fusion power plant design because (n, 2n) reactions of 198Hg drive both transmutation and neutron multiplication. Using neutronics simulations, we demonstrate a tokamak with a blanket configu- ration that can produce 197Au at a rate of about 2 t/GWth/yr. Implementation of this concept allows fusion power plants to double the revenue generated by the system, dramatically enhancing the economic viability of fusion energy.


From the paper:

>Using neutronics simulations, we demonstrate a tokamak with a blanket configuration that can produce 197Au at a rate of about 2 t/GWth/yr.


I'm guessing that like everything south of a certain point in Louisiana, it'll start out as a larger landscape feature and then gets filled in by sediment.


Oh, and before I forget: the kudzu will probably eat what's left of the crater.


So you're going to ignore the possibility of events that happened thousands of years before the young earth creationists say the Earth was even formed because of a possibility of association with young earth creationists?


I am going to be even more skeptical in places where people being intentionally misleading often post their falsehoods yes.


I couldn't find the date in the article so I don't know if this is just a repeat of an earlier "defeat" of RSA.


This is just a repeat. At the end they have the link to the original article from 2024.


06/24/2025 - Bottom left corner of the image at the top.


Well, I'll have to double check the stuff I already sent, I need to decide whether to send this off to a couple cryptologically inclined friends of mine or not.


So thanks to both you and Romperstomper for answering both yes and no.


I don't know, but I would imagine the family that built this were descendants of Vettor Pisani, who helped save Venice during the Chiogga War.

Edit: I've seen two different spellings for Vettor Pisani.


The widescreen is just one of the things the people buying old computers are trying to get away from!


I also remember the Personification of Science who funded virus creation at a lab in the city where the virus first spread spending February 2020 saying that Covid probably wasn’t going to be a problem. This raises a whole lot of questions BUT no one here wants to talk about that. And besides he’s been pardoned.

It’s funny how fast the Hn crowd can go back and forth between asking “what radicalized you?” and looking away from the answer.


You're right. Only you have been able to understand the truth. Everyone else was misled.

Congrats!


"I'm telling you, Rimmer, if the iguanas can do it the sheep can do it."


The people who lent funding and technology (in the form of humanized mice) to the virus engineering efforts at at Wuhan were also involved in the creation of the Proximal Origins paper that they pretended was impartial and showed the virus was natural and the result of zoonotic spillover.

* The contract number for this research from NIAID was (I believe) R01 1R01AI110964. This was probably funding the research described in the DARPA "Defuse" document, but I believe that it was meant to be a secondary source of funding. [0]

* We relied on the US funder of the gain of function research to dictate what treatments everyone was going to be allowed or not.

* A. G. Huff, a former manager at Ecohealth Alliance, wrote (among other things) that Ecohealth Alliance not only played fast and loose with federal contracting rules, but would fund experiments in advance of and in anticipation of gaining federal contracts to cover the cost of said research. You can find his book on amazon. [1]

* From the very early days of the pandemic there were fraudulent papers on how to treat the disease. Some of the very first ones were the Surgisphere papers which used an essentially fictional, fabricated database and were in turn used to limit treatment options for covid. This included not just novel antivirals like HCQ and Ivermectin but also more common drugs such as azithromycin and ACE inhibitors. These papers continued to be cited authoritatively _after_ they were retracted. [2]

* About that ACE-inhibitor paper? Well, there were later studies that found out it was not only wrong, but harmful, because ACE inhibitors helped for covid: [3] [4] [5] [6]

So, yes, there were lies about the disease's origin and how to treat it when roughly two million people died from it in the US.

* At the time when basically everything _but_ Remdesivir was off limits to US patients, the WHO was recommending _against_ its use for covid. [7]

[0]: https://drasticresearch.org/2021/09/20/1583/

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Truth-about-Wuhan-Uncovered-Biggest/d...

[2]: https://www.tctmd.com/news/retracted-over-fraud-concerns-sur...

[3]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-020-00221-6

[4]: https://heart.bmj.com/content/106/19/1503

[5]: https://advances.massgeneral.org/research-and-innovation/jou...

[6]: https://news.yale.edu/2020/05/27/seniors-covid-19-taking-ace...

[7]: https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-remdesivi...


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