<![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> Maybe it will appear near Grovers Mills, NJ where a tripod water tower was reportedly shot during the transmission of Orson Welles "War of the Worlds" one Halloween. They had a fusion experiment there nearby at Princeton, NJ. It was called Tomomak after "Tomomak Plasma". I spent some time there digging holes for archaeology for a US Route 1 interchange around the time of the SST Challenger exploded, partly on the RCA Saranoff research center, one of the inventors of color TV and in WWII in charge of large radio transmissions to Europe, bounced over the horizon at night. Might change the predicted timeline for fusion, about let's see, said perhaps 40 years off. Wow!

JojiMyers

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> .....so then i put it in my car?.....

pevans34

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> It sounds pretty damn cool but I sur eam glad I don't live anywhere near it. Of course that isn't going to do me any good when the "star" that they create starts expanding on it's own and it engulfs the entire planet in a fireball as hot as the sun, but what're you gonna do?

maven2k

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> @mastermatoro: Solar Cell Fields? Wind Energy?

Bah, needs more lasers.

Klappstuhl

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> okay so we're creating universes now. nice

Arelar

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> 2.7778 * (10^(-7)) * 1 800 000 = 0.500004 kilowatt-hours.. hardly all the output of all of the power plants in the US...

z4ce

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> @stinkyboy: "Yes it will work. But here in America, Democrats don't let us have nuclear power."

Fusion should be fairly safe and very clean. You're probably right.

GadgetPlay

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> Do not look into laser with remaining skull.

realyst2k

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> Why don't we just use the petawatt laser in Texas? It's only $7 million.

Intro24

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> crap!!! re rack

"and if california falls into the ocean,
just like the mystics, and statistics say it will
i predict this motel will be standing
until i pay my bill"

godwhacker

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> "and if california falls into the ocean,
just the mystics, and statistics say it will
i predict this motel will be standing
until i pay my bill"

godwhacker

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> My Hot Tip:
The power supply in California is about to get might unpredictable.

Maxwells_Nylon_Hammer

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> What would I do with 3Billion Dollars...Hmmm.... *Goes to View Expensive Prons*

mastermatoro

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> Of course they're going to blow up Cali. Don't you see the computers they're using in the video? They're all running Windows XP.
HAHAHAHA

shenanigans

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> If they can amplify it to get that much energy out of so little energy, why don't they just do that?
Wouldn't that solve the energy problem too?

Digo

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> @thechansen: BATTLEMODO!!!!!!!

tehronin

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> Lol if anything goes wrong, its Bush's fault.

The-Joker

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> NEW PIX OF THIS PUPPY IN FIRE TESTING: [www.popularmechanics.com]

mattnyc99

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> I found the article to be very interesting. I cannot wait to see what comes of it. It's always exciting when the scientists really have no clue.

Scott

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> ah HA!! Incoming ransome note.
"Leaders of the world, unless we (the secret scientist league of... secret scientists,) receive ONE TRILLION dollars within 24 hours, we will create a black hole (CERN) and a small star simultaneously to destroy the earth!! (and/or take measurements if we fail)"

The end is nigh. /tinfoil hat

avconsumer

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> I say Cali is gone. However.....No big loss....

Scott

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> @Argyle: ya for whatever reason the usa passed laws that decreed that it was illegal to reprocess waste. if those laws didn't exist the amount of nuclear waste would be drastically reduced, almost to the point that disposal is trivial

ztella

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> Nice! Orichalcum will become reality! Just in time for the new Indy movie too!

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> I foresee a Chuck Norris reference in the making...

TJ

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> @Argyle: So we ship all of our nuclear waste to Europe?

Geisrud

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> Battlemodo! CERN's blackhole vs LLNL's star! Which will kill us first????

thechansen

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> Can it remove moles?

N@tedog

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> Good, Blowing Apophis out of the sky before it hits goes as planned.

On the other hand, if CERN makes a black hole, the gravity pull can bend the SF Laser beam in an impressive curve across Earth. Kewl.

MarlboroTestMonkey7

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> @Sloth: Oh, like it's this big surprise... Seriously, I feel about as bad about people not knowing that living in Southern California is precarious at best, as I do about people who live(d) in New Orleans not getting the hell out of the path of a hurricane when the wind picked up.

To be fair, though, you might want to pick up a bottle of SPF 100trillion. y'know... fyi.

DeusExMach

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> BLACK HOLE !2010 end of world? :-ss

andrei-

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> I chose #3. Not a prediction, just wishful thinking.

marklmurray

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> Very cool. Glad to see some big science is still going on.

olafson

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> That's just great....and I live in the Bay Area, and I didn't even hear about this until I read it up on Gizmodo.....Thank you Uncle Sam for telling me that California may fall off into the ocean because of this....

Sloth

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> @Empire: Currently there is absolutely 0 nuclear waste in that "hollow mountain in Nevada". Almost all nuclear waste is being stored at or near the power plants, which are dangerously close to most major cities and water supplies. The state of Nevada has refused to allow any waste to be transfered into its borders despite being the current best solution for long term storage. Also America doesn't allow recycling of nuclear waste. The main waste created by Uranium rods is plutonium, which works just as well at running power plants. Too bad it's illegal to recycle nuclear waste here in America, unlike in Europe...

Argyle

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> So that fusion-thingy in Spider-Man 2 was realistic after all...

Klappstuhl

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> ITER will beat you to Q > 1(power consumed = power produced), National Ignition Facility . . how's ya like them internationally funded tokamaks?

alkalinebattery

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> @stinkyboy:
1. That's nuclear fission. This is nuclear fusion. Fall asleep in your high school physics class much?

2. You should be grateful. Exactly how many hollow mountains do you think there are in Nevada?

Empire

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> They're gonna need some help with their electric bills to get that thing working.

For me, the key phrase here is "Controlled Fusion." I just don't see that happening.

Geisrud

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> JettOMEGA

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> JettOMEGA

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> @baltwade: I believe you are correct, thank you for extending and correcting my semantic correction.

TheAdAgency

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> @TheAdAgency: I believe a "theory" is a tested hypothesis where the evidence suggested that it is correct, but it's not proven.

baltwade

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> Better get that 13-year old german boy to check their math first before they fire that thing...I like the odds of an asteroid taking me out over getting my personal space singed by star-intense balls of heat

sshrum

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> I was torn between blowing up CA or opening a vortex to invading armies...as I live in CA, my ass won

sshrum

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> @chrisaroz: I think they are testing a hypothesis, it isn't a "theory" unless it works.

TheAdAgency

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> stinkyboy: You know you're maybe 10-15 years out of date with that right?

wjousts

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> $3billion? hmm, thats only a few days in Iraq. Just imagine what we could have today if we didnt care about oil companies...

bsutton

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> @Hestika: I think you start getting pews at around 100 thousand watts, so its gonna be a lot

sqeakytoy of the apocalypse

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> @chrisaroz: Normally you just spend billions on theories if you are 99,999999999999999999999% sure that it will work out.

Redwraithvienna

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> Bye Bye CawleeFornya!

SigmundTheSeaMonster

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> Doc Oc did it...

Sam6644

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> or... it will create a black hole ;)

panuzzi

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> I voted for OPEC to suck it up. After watching the video, I am now unsure. It is disconcerting when the speaker (scientist? Or hopefully just a spokesperson) stated the beam will change in scale "from very, very small, to around a foot on a side" and he holds his hands two feet apart to demonstrate this. Do these people not have rulers?

bunny-too

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> 5 hundred trillion watts, that is.

Yowza.

How may pews per watt?

Hestika

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> if it fails at least they can claim the title of the worlds most expensive back hair remover.

amehrich

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> Sounds more like something out of Spidy2 than Stargate. Especially with the gold coated pellet.

I like how the video tells you it was produced in HD, but then you have this little itty bitty video... nice job on the HD there guys...

Log1c

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> This should be interesting.

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> Yes it will work. But here in America, democrats don't let us have nuclear power.

stinkyboy

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> Is it just me, or the guy looks eerily like Doc Ock...

ripfire

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> well you either get a star, or just put your enemy where they hydrogen would have gone and ask them to watch for the pretty light...

blackwand

]]> <![CDATA[Inside the Largest Laser and Fusion Chamber in the World]]> If I read that right, they spent 3 BILLION dollars to test a theory? Man, I hope that works out for 'em.

chrisaroz

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