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But I am more suprised that NASA would put an article like this on their website. Sure, they discuss all the advantages to using a 'magic' energy source, but they seem to have left out some minor details. How do you confine these anti-matter particles in large numbers and how do you create them economically. Reading the article, it would seem like it this a minor issue.

Oh, but it is! All you need to do is budget tons of money to keep throwing at it year after year, decade after decade, building up a huge research enterprise that just keeps on growing like Topsy. Of course, you'll need to periodically release pep talk white papers explaining how you're really making progress, and expect a "breakthrough" any year now.

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Oh, but it is! All you need to do is budget tons of money to keep throwing at it year after year, decade after decade, building up a huge research enterprise that just keeps on growing like Topsy. Of course, you'll need to periodically release pep talk white papers explaining how you're really making progress, and expect a "breakthrough" any year now.

The beauty part of this scam is that after you've managed to drag it out for a few years, you can scream bloody murder about how "irresponsible" it would be to "throw away all the years of investment in this technology" any time Congress makes noise about pulling the plug on the program.