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2003-12-20 -Short Attention Span Theater-

US favors Japan over France for International Fusion Reactor

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Posted by rkb 2003-12-20 11:37:59 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And one other thought: I think the US - Japanese relationship will continue to grow in importance in the 21st century. Neither country wants China to dominate the world in a generation or two, as she is on track to try to do, and both have a business and a security stake in a stable Pacific Rim. We also both have a stake in containing the virulent Islamacist fundamentalism that is sweeping countries like Indonesia, where the poverty level and illiteracy are even worse than many areas of the Middle East.

Europe has its importance, but watch the PacRim for this century ....

Posted by rkb 2003-12-20 12:02:58 PM|| 2003-12-20 12:02:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Looking pretty grim for the French landing this project, given the clusterf*ck that is the Charles de Gaulle. Is Ladbroke's taking bets on this one?

Posted by Raj 2003-12-20 1:54:36 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2003-12-20 1:54:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 That ten-year timeline will have to be lengthened if it goes to France: 35-hour weeks, no overtime, all that mandatory vacation when the young scientists hit the beach so the old scientists can dehydrate and die from heatstroke in their labs...you're looking at a good fifty, sixty years.

Posted by (lowercase) matt 2003-12-20 2:26:14 PM|| 2003-12-20 2:26:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 ...not to mention France being over-run by Sharia in the next decade or so. Plus, their little we're-all-a-happy-EU-family experiment will just be a pain in the ass to deal with down the road.

Posted by Rafael 2003-12-20 2:41:08 PM|| 2003-12-20 2:41:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Ultimately, this will go too Japan. France just has too many factors that don't go in our favor. And since we will be paying for most of this ( I assume ), we'll get the final say. It's also easier to spot turbans in Japan. Alot easier.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-12-20 2:55:14 PM|| 2003-12-20 2:55:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 rkb---"scheme" in European English usually refers to a plan or program, not like the US English connotation of some kind of scam or underhanded plan. However, in this case, when dealing with the French govt, it can refer to both....LOL!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-12-20 3:02:19 PM|| 2003-12-20 3:02:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 It's also easier to spot turbans in Japan. Alot easier. -- Anon.

Not entirely, Anon.. silly as it sounds, there actually ARE a few, a very few, native Japanese who've converted to Islam. They're much fewer than the Japanese Christians, who are a tiny minority in Japan themselves, but there are some.

If I were an Islamo-looney cleric, I'd re-arrange my agenda, putting the need to place the most sincere Japanese Muslims into important sleeper position in that nation at the top of my "to-do" list. That's how you fight that sort of war.

Ed Becerra

Posted by Ed Becerra 2003-12-20 3:27:17 PM|| 2003-12-20 3:27:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Alaska Paul #6 - I do know the connotations of the term in Europe, just indulged myself a bit. [smile]

More seriously: it looks as if France may not be the most politically, economically and socially stable country in the coming decades. Bad place to put a fusion reactor IMO.

Posted by rkb 2003-12-20 6:05:17 PM|| 2003-12-20 6:05:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Japan should be safe now that Godzilla moved to NY.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-12-20 10:09:11 PM|| 2003-12-20 10:09:11 PM|| Front Page Top

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