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totally guarded with rooftop guards holding machine guns.

No fusion research going on, of course. My son still was writing code for the bomb guys. Which...yeah, we need to keep up, but for no more than the government pays top scientists (sounds good until you try to live on it in pricey communities like the Tri-Valley area in California or in either Los Alamos or Santa Fe),

Finally, both my son and one of his other "nerd" friends were offered jobs by a business firm needing their specialized computer code knowledge. At twice the salary.

Neither of them had ever planned to write code for bombs. They wanted clean energy. They wanted to build that man-made sun. My son now is an executive vice-president for one of this business's firms. His friend serves in a similar capacity for another.

Since they now oversee the writing of financial software for international business firms, I've been telling them to look at the upside. If their companies should happen to fail through the current economic mess...hey, fusion might be back in style because we now need it so badly.

I hope it does come back into style. I haven't my son's mathematical/physics brains, but I have read a lot. It makes sense for a true solution-if the government will fund it well enough and for long enough for the new bright boys to find the answers.

And maybe they should move the energy physics into a lab of their own...like one that that certainly will need checks on visitors, but maybe not guys on rooftops really hoping o relieve the boredom by shooting? nment pays top scientists (sounds good until you try to live on it in pricey communities like the Tri-Valley area in California or in either Los Alamos or Santa Fe),

Finally, both my son and one of his other "nerd" friends were offered jobs by a business firm needing their specialized computer code knowledge. At twice the salary.

Neither of them had ever planned to write code for bombs. They wanted clean energy. They wanted to build that man-made sun. My son now is an executive vice-president for one of this business's firms. His friend serves in a similar capacity for another.

Since they now oversee the writing of financial software for international business firms, I've been telling them to look at the upside. If their companies should happen to fail through the current economic mess...hey, fusion might be back in style because we now need it so badly.

I hope it does come back into style. I haven't my son's mathematical/physic brains, but I have read a lot. It makes sense for a true solution-if the government will fund it well enough and for long enough for the new bright boys to find the answers.

And maybe they should move the energy physists into a lab of their own...like one that that certainly will need checks on visitors, but maybe not guys on rooftops really hopint o relieve the boredom by shooting?

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