One person said that little progress on the critical issues that divide the sides had been made earlier this week, when lawyers and staff members negotiated without owners and players in attendance, and another said he still believed it was possible that games would be missed and that it would require a breakthrough for a deal to be completed in the next couple of weeks.
Defense News noted that Cone echoed the sentiment of Lt. Gen. Keith Walker, who in a Jan . 6interview with the publication said "we'll need to fundamentally change the nature of the force, and that would require a breakthrough in science and technology".
That, in turn, would require technological breakthroughs in the near future and much more research and development spending in the present.
To make it easier to tabulate responses I provided four possible answers: 80 years, currently the average life span in the West; 120 years, close to the maximum anyone has lived; 150 years, which would require a biotech breakthrough; and forever, which rejects the idea that life span has to have any limit at all.
The comments reflected a view among some Israeli officials that any lasting solution to the conflict would require either a breakthrough diplomatic accord that heavily restricts Hamas's military abilities or a deeper ground assault into urban areas of Gaza, known here as a possible "Phase Three" of the war.
Another option, which would require no scientific breakthroughs, is more efficient food use.
In fact, systems that could prevent terrorists from crashing a plane into a building, or even crashing the plane at all, would require no fundamental breakthroughs.
WASHINGTON — Steven Chu, the new secretary of energy, said Wednesday that solving the world's energy and environment problems would require Nobel-level breakthroughs in three areas: electric batteries, solar power and the development of new crops that can be turned into fuel.
