>>137281172. Not at all. ITER will definitely show us some interesting things, and there are so many new and different projects (both public and private) recently that it wouldn't suprise me if one of them stumbled across an unexpected shortcut. Although we must not discount the possibility that fusion power simply isn't practical at any human scale.
3. This I also think is not a given, but in any case, I actually think it's best to assume you will not live to see the cure for aging. I say this as a transhumanist; one of the core principles transhumanists should "preach" is that it's not about whether you personally get to live forever. The unequivocal fact is that either humans will cure aging and continue existing on a nigh-infinite cosmic timescale, OR we will (un)naturally go extinct in the next hundred-to-few-thousand years, ending the only known conscious, civilised lifeform, for all we know in the entire local Hubble volume. So I care more about what I can do now and how my actions might reverberate down that unfathomable timeline than how it personally affects me. If we as a species make it that far and finally achieve biological immortality, then in a way we will all have lived to see it.
4. lol space nerd
