Humans can be fallible, violence prone, dangerous to themselves, other species and the world, true.
But humans can also cooperate, achieve amazing feats, and even save the planet from devastation.
I considered this when I heard that 70 years after the first use of atomic fusion, humans have achieved *ignition* at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. That means more energy was produced from a fusion reaction than was used to power it. We have a long way to go, but this is a huge milestone! #Hope #Fusion

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For the uninitiated, in his mention of the "first use of atomic fusion," George refers to the U.S. test of the world's first "hydrogen bomb," the vernacular then for what are now more accurately known as thermonuclear weapons.