Ronald Richter working on the Huemul Project, the first fusion project that allegedly proved the feasibility of fusion. It was also the first fusion project identified as fraud. By Daniel L. Jassby, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab (ret.)April 27, 2022 Reprinted with permission from the American Physical Society Forum on Physics April 2019 Newsletter “It is much easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” – Mark Twain Modern Fusion Fantasies During the last decade a host of fusion energy “startups” have captured the attention of the technology press and blogosphere. These startups promise to develop practical fusion electric power generators in 5 to 15 years, and incidentally will achieve ITER’s planned performance in a fraction of the time at 1%… Source link

The following contains spoilers for The Flash Season 8, Episode 12, “Death Rises,” which aired Wednesday, April 27 on The CW. For weeks, Team Flash has been pursuing a metahuman serial killer that appears to feed off raw emotional grief and incinerate its victims. While Caitlin Snow believed this figure to be her presumed dead husband Ronnie Raymond, the twisted villain revealed himself to be Deathstorm, an entity from another dimension that bonded to Ronnie when he sacrificed his life in a singularity seven years ago. Meanwhile, Iris West learns that she has developed an acute temporal sickness since the Reverse-Flashpoint, causing unstable fluctuation to the fabric of reality around her. Deathstorm explains that, where he comes from, life is seen as an aberration, with… Source link

The following contains spoilers from the April 27 episode of The CW’s The Flash. This week on The Flash, Barry & Co. learned a lot more about who/what Deathstorm is — as well as his specific designs on one Caitlin Snow. After revealing his true, Not!Ronnie identity to Caitlin, Deathstorm declared himself “complete, thanks to you — and now I’ll return the favor!” He then grabbed her and began some sort of harrowing process, but The Flash sped onto the scene and interrupted. Undeterred, Deathstorm made clear he would return to finish what he started with Caitlin. Later, when Chester jerry-rigged a neuro-cerebro-somethingoranother that allowed empathic Cecile to be a conduit for Deathstorm, the evil entity made clear, “There is only one way that all of you survive” —… Source link

Showtime has revived The Man Who Fell To Earth but is the new TV series a revival, reboot, or a sequel? Based upon Walter Tevis’ 1963 novel of the same name, Showtime’s The Man Who Fell To Earth is the latest adaptation, following the 1976 cult classic film starring David Bowie and directed by Nicholas Roeg. The book was also adapted into a TV movie in 1987. Showtime’s 10-episode The Man Who Fell To Earth series stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris, and it’s written and produced by Clarice‘s Jenny Lumet and Alex Kurtzman, who also directs. The version of The Man Who Fell To Earth that audiences are most familiar with is the David Bowie movie. The beloved rock star, who died in 2016, played Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien who came to Earth to save his home planet, Anthea, from a… Source link

In 1976 cinematic classic “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” David Bowie’s iconic alien Thomas Jerome Newton easily blends into humanity. He strolls into a small Kentucky town, lays down on a bench outside of an antiques store and waits for it to open. Once it does, he sells a gold wedding ring and goes on his way. Forty-five years later another alien from Newton’s home planet crash-lands on Earth, this time in New Mexico. But his entry is nowhere as smooth. Newton arrives fully clothed and dapper, while this alien, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, stumbles out fully naked and desperately thirsty. It isn’t long before he’s Tased, arrested and beaten. And while Newton speaks flawless, British-accented English, Ejiofor’s interstellar traveler, who takes the name Faraday from a… Source link

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WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — In an effort to help the U.S. Air Force more efficiently manage records, the Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate’s Air Force Records Information Management System (AFRIMS) team produced an updated web-based application that enables over 20,000 records professionals across the Air Force to efficiently meet the critical records management mission.   The AFRIMS application was rewritten in its entirety in Java, eliminating dependency on the existing Adobe ColdFusion code and associated libraries and therefore eliminating security issues with the aging ColdFusion code base.  Cost benefits were also achieved by eliminating the annual ColdFusion subscription cost. The AFRIMS application utilizes a modern… Source link

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — In an effort to help the U.S. Air Force more efficiently manage records, the Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate’s Air Force Records Information Management System (AFRIMS) team produced an updated web-based application that enables over 20,000 records professionals across the Air Force to efficiently meet the critical records management mission.   The AFRIMS application was rewritten in its entirety in Java, eliminating dependency on the existing Adobe ColdFusion code and associated libraries and therefore eliminating security issues with the aging ColdFusion code base.  Cost benefits were also achieved by eliminating the annual ColdFusion subscription cost. The AFRIMS application utilizes a modern… Source link

No need to be sheepish. We’re among friends here. But raise your hand if the first few times you heard Sting’s “Englishman in New York,” you were convinced that the song, with its chorus beginning “I’m an alien/ I’m a legal alien,” was actually meant to be taken literally. Sure, the song (apparently written about writer Quentin Crisp) is just about the alienating sense of being an outsider, of having people judge you for your accent or aspiring to civility in an uncivilized land. But it’s much more fun if it’s also about a spaceman. The Man Who Fell to Earth The Bottom Line Ejiofor’s turn compensates for storytelling inconsistencies. It’s not adroit, or sensitive, to make… Source link