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There's also, IIRC, no way to supply material for a nuclear arms program from thorium reactors. And if you're gonna, like, make people's lives better and not incinerate them...then I mean who cares.

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Regarding genius, and the theory that innovation is the product of many small minds accumulating many small insights...I challenge any proponent to merely glance at the works of Euler. Don't even open them, just look at how much space those tens of thousands of pages takes up on the shelf at your local university's library. Take them off the shelf and hold the weight of them in your hands. Then look the librarian in the eye and tell them, with perfect confidence, "this could just as easily have been me."

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