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    A Pack of Wild Canadians Claims They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion on the Cheap

    World's Largest Laser Now Open for Business

    9/11 Twin Tower Collapse Provides Data For Building Better Fusion Reactors

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    Image of Curves Curves
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Pack of Wild Canadians Claims They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion on the Cheap
    Its quite beautiful really, the form and symmetry. Its kind of scary, though, when you consider the possibilities for EPIC screw up.
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    Image of I Think We're Property I Think We're Property
    07/31/09

    @Curves: What epic screw up would that be? Fusion requires an active process to maintain, can't really have a runaway reaction like fission processes, and thus would theoretically 'quit cold' even if the device experienced a critical failure. A fusion reactor isn't the same thing as a fusion bomb.
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    Image of Dreamwriter Dreamwriter
    08/01/09

    @I Think We're Property: Explain that to the sun :P
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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    08/01/09

    @Dreamwriter:That's a little bit different...the sun has a HUGE amount of fuel and holds it together with gravity...pressure goes up, gravity goes down, it grows but still has enough pressure to keep going...if you dropped all containment on the sun, it would blast apart and stop working.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Pack of Wild Canadians Claims They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion on the Cheap
    Didn't some facility already prove they can create visible light in water by using high powered sound waves in a flask?
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    07/31/09

    @FrankenPC:
    This - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_fusion ?
    It's one of the iffy forms of Fusion. It could be a fusion reaction (though so small as to be useless), but it just might be a nice pretty light.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    07/31/09

    @deanbmmv: Thanks for the link. My point being, if energy can be concentrated on a small scale using sound, it can be magnified on a large scale. So, it might be possible.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Pack of Wild Canadians Claims They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion on the Cheap
    And if it all goes horribly wrong they can sink it in the river. Because water puts out fusion reactions...
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    Image of Skeetz Skeetz
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Pack of Wild Canadians Claims They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion on the Cheap

    We're goin nuclear, eh.

    But seriously, being canadian myself, I'd have to say this shouldn't be too hard considering we already have a few.. yeah it shouldn't be too hard to retrofit a US destroying missile rocket on behalf of north korea for the right price... bwahahahaha bacon mwahahahaha
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    Image of Andyr2120 Andyr2120
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Pack of Wild Canadians Claims They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion on the Cheap
    Probably uses Ur-Eh-nium....
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    Image of anexanhume anexanhume
    07/31/09

    @Andyr2120: No, it's a fusion reaction. Fusion uses Hydrogen or Helium, typically. This is how our sun works, it's just a big fusion reaction. The advantage is that there's usually almost no radiation produced from the reaction (and in bombs, it makes a bigger boom).
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    Image of Hi, I'm God Hi, I'm God
    07/31/09

    @Andyr2120: Difference between fusion and fission materials;

    Fission - The bigger it is the easier to break. They use 238-Uranium... relatively unstable, but more importantly its big.

    Fusion - Requires more oomphh to combine larger things, therefore the smaller the better. Hydrogen has 1 proton, Helium has 2... they're the two smallest elements.
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    07/31/09

    In reply to A Pack of Wild Canadians Claims They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion on the Cheap
    This is a win-win situations.

    If it works; YAY energy.
    If it fails; YAY awesome explosion! BOOM!
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    Image of anexanhume anexanhume
    07/31/09

    In reply to A Pack of Wild Canadians Claims They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion on the Cheap
    Oh Canada.

    I imagine this solution would be be palatable for the general population as huge ass explosions are preferable to fallout in the event of reactor failure?
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    Image of Skeetz Skeetz
    07/31/09

    @anexanhume aka Flintheart Glomgold: *Glares at you from The Hat..*
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    06/01/09

    In reply to World's Largest Laser Now Open for Business
    Shouldn't the world's largest laser be open for Blindness instead of business?
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/01/09

    In reply to World's Largest Laser Now Open for Business
    i am gonna be upset if all these 'scientists' just want is to create a bunch of helium to inhale so they can talk in squeeky voices.
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    06/01/09

    In reply to World's Largest Laser Now Open for Business
    Someone call Chris Knight, he will have it working in no time.


    I just hope you like popcorn

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    Image of Sean Masters Sean Masters
    06/01/09

    In reply to World's Largest Laser Now Open for Business
    Erm... forgive my ignorance, but why is it going to need 3 decades of tests run?
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/01/09

    @Sean Masters: gotta charge it. it's gonna be a while.
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    Image of Monty Monty
    06/01/09

    In reply to World's Largest Laser Now Open for Business
    Wow, what I would have given to be at the meeting when they cooked up this plan.


    "Do you really think we can ask for over 3 billions dollars to save the world's energy problems?"

    "Oh, sure - just tell 'em we are going to do it with lasers. Everyone loves lasers."

    "Neat. Um, won't they expect us to produce something, though?"

    "Just tell them it will be ready in 2040. By then, they will have forgotten all about it, and heck - we'll be dead."

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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    06/01/09

    @Monty: I started to laugh, then caught myself when I realized this could have actually gone down this way...
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    Image of doggo doggo
    06/01/09

    In reply to World's Largest Laser Now Open for Business
    Rats. I'll be dead by then.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    06/01/09

    @doggo: Dead by 2040? And I thought I was the grandpa on this site.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    06/01/09

    In reply to World's Largest Laser Now Open for Business
    Giant atom smasher: check

    Giant robot arm: check

    Giant atomic fusion laser: check


    Looks like my plan for world domination is coming to fruition.


    MWAHAHAHA!!


    MWAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    I mean... "nifty. big laser. not my thing. not gonna take over the planet. pay no mind to me."

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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    06/01/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Well, your plan is doomed to fail anyway without the matching 192 shark's heads.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    06/01/09

    @bosskev: Pipe down, 667, or you'll be the first one with his back to the wall when the revolution comes.


    And as for you, 32nd, I don't intend to defy the laws of physics. I intend to bend physics to my will!

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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/01/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: big talk coming from someone that couldn't count to 10,000.


    /tugs on aquaman's cape

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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    06/01/09

    In reply to World's Largest Laser Now Open for Business
    So, now with this in addition to the Large Hadron Collider--I guess the competition's really heating up as to which unstoppable chain reaction will be the first to end life as we know it?
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/01/09

    @bosskev: keanu reeves has his money on the laser. pew pew.
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