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I love the smell of Fusion Power in the morning! What’s that Scotty?! Yes it does not need dilithium crystals! Tesla we can rebuild your towers now. Haha! Well well Anons, guess what just happened this morning? Houston We Have Stable Fusion Ignition. Stable! Boooooom!
https://www.cnet.com/science/fusion-energy-breakthrough-major-milestone-achieved-in-us-experiment/
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-scientists-fusion-energy-breakthrough.html
Possibly, but massive breakthroughs do happen that jump technological progress forward decades.
You could spend 70 years developing a wheel, but then suddenly manufacturing hits and we develop better rubber, plastic, metallurgy and you have a car tire at a fraction of the time and labor.