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    Which engineering is most hands on?

    Just a general observation from a physicist working in medical device engineering: I think a lot of folks who go into engineering as career are surprised to find out that most of their time is spent doing things that are very different from what their initial idea of "engineering" is. For...
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    I WANT to build a nuclear reactor.

    Morbius, On the topic of fusors, what are your thoughts regarding the recent frenzy surrounding the claims associated with Robert Bussard and his fusor work (i.e. his Google talk and requests for millions of dollars for more work)? He hasn't published anything and it has the unmistakable...