/sci/ - Science & Math

Have we made so little progress on nuclear fusion because of over engineering and grant farming? Why is there no chicago pile 1 of nuclear fusion? Is this lack of forward momentum the biggest problem we face as a society?

you get to choose one event to live to see:
A) unambiguous SETI signal, but it's from 50,000 lightyears away and it's just prime numbers
B) a single 100-person rotating habitat under the van allen belt, but it seems permanent human settlement outside our magnetosphere is impossible
C) a single 10-person lunar base, but it's Chinese and top secret and no images or footage of it get released to the public
D) a selfie-opportunity Mars mission and no permanent structures or habitats