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lonelyelendi
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High school student builds fusion reactor
High school student Thiago Olson has gone beyond basic physics class. Way beyond. Using parts and materials scrounged from the local hardware story and eBay, Olson built a working fusion reactor. In November 2006, a few tiny bubbles in his neutron dosimeter told him that he'd achieved success: Fusing hydrogen nuclei into helium.
While it takes far more energy to run than it produces, Olson's nuclear reactor is pretty bad-ass, producing 200 million-degree plasma at its core -- or, as Olson points out, “several times hotter than the core of the sun.”
Now that's an impressive hack.
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Ziola
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Damn...and here I was all excited because my daughter helped my fold laundry today  |
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Killthesmiley
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| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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Damn...and here I was all excited because my daughter helped my fold laundry today |
i was pretty impressed when my daughter took all my foundation make up and wrote ... half...of her name on the wall with it...
bad but still impressive
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djmadscribbler
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I swear - the pic looks more like a still than a fusion reactor.
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Killthesmiley
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| djmadscribbler wrote: | | I swear - the pic looks more like a still than a fusion reactor. |
THAT looks nothing like a still
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Ziola
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| Killthesmiley wrote: | | djmadscribbler wrote: | | I swear - the pic looks more like a still than a fusion reactor. |
THAT looks nothing like a still |
But could turn out to be more profitable if it was |
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Killthesmiley
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| Ziola wrote: | | Killthesmiley wrote: | | djmadscribbler wrote: | | I swear - the pic looks more like a still than a fusion reactor. |
THAT looks nothing like a still |
But could turn out to be more profitable if it was |
true dat!!
*looks upstairs towards her bathroom closest hearing the liquids rumbling...I mean...my husband snoring*
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PinkoLady
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Man, I thought this was going to be about pipe bombs, or huffing, or something
But it had to go and be all positive, and crap.
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lonelyelendi
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Sorry pinko! LOL! Later I will find you a negative article!
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