i won't be impressed anymore after the square watermelon until they create a small stellated dodecahedron watermelon...

Also from Roberts personal wiki page:

"His work will continue as funding was arranged and received on August 21, 2007 and he was able to create a staff of physicists to continue."

At present, they have constructed and completed a series of tests of the "truncated box" and dodecahedron designs, and are awaiting to hear back from review panels before the USN will continue funding.

The USN have given them enough funds to operate for an indeterminate amount of time until the decision comes back to either keep it going, or kill the project.

Either way, I for one am glad that Dr. Bussard mannaged to get his work published (despite the current embargo that the USN has on EMC2's existing work as of his death), and that his claim that all the physics issues are solved, its only a matter of engineering and funding, creates a lot of hope for this.

Amazing find, thanks.

I've said it before and I'll say it again...

He didn't invent a shape, there are many kinds of different kind of dodecahedrons. It looks really difficult, but with such odd shaped pieces that can only go in one place, I wonder how much harder it really is.

A dodecahedron would at least provide flat surfaces which would give the multiple reflections seen in the beginning...

Sure, but what would happen if you put him inside a dodecahedron?

That's nothing... I was playing dodecahedron just the other day. Now THAT is an impressive game.