Is Fusion Finally Here? 30 Years Later...

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The discussion centers around a temporary outage of the physics forums due to a router replacement at the data center, which was expected to take ten minutes but extended longer. Participants humorously compare the delay to common tech support phrases that often imply longer wait times. The conversation shifts to a playful analogy about fusion energy, suggesting that the promise of achieving fusion has been perpetually "30 years away" for decades. The tone remains light-hearted, with jokes about the reliability of time estimates in tech. Overall, the thread highlights both the technical issue and the community's camaraderie in addressing it.
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What happened? physicsforums was unavailable for a couple of hours, approximately. Obviously it is back up running again now.
 
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Power went out for about ten minutes here in Toronto.

And Toronto is the centre the universe, after all. As any Torontonian will tell you.
 
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It was the annual addiction test, I presume o0)
 
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Our data center was replacing a router. They said it would take 10min...
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
They said it would take 10min...
These were dog minutes?
 
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Greg Bernhardt said:
Our data center was replacing a router. They said it would take 10min...
I guess they only have the one? :))
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
Our data center was replacing a router. They said it would take 10min...
That is computerese for "Just 5 more minutes, dear."

Repeated every half hour.
 
Tom.G said:
That is computerese for "Just 5 more minutes, dear."

Repeated every half hour.
Since this is a physics forum a more apropos example is ”fusion is 30 years away.”
Repeated every 10 years.
 

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