Meanwhile somewhere near Jupiter
"Captain, it looks like the third planet of the solar system could harbour life!"
"Bring us in, let's make a diplomatic offering."
"Sir, they... they appear to be charging some sort of laser weapon."
"We tried playing nice. Obliterate the planet."
[QUOTE=smurfy;21611745]Meanwhile somewhere near Jupiter
"Captain, it looks like the third planet from the solar system could harbour life!"
"Bring us in, let's make a diplomatic offering."
"Sir, they... they appear to be charging some sort of laser weapon."
"We tried playing nice. Obliterate the planet."[/QUOTE]
Not on my watch :cop:
I love how it was said to be a star, yet the size of a bb pellet
Creating a star the likes of which lights the entire solar system on Earth's surface.
NO FORESEEABLE DOWNSIDES!
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[sp]farce[/sp]
There are no downsides.
[QUOTE=Nikita;21610492]They're late. "Snowflake in Hell" reactor already does fusion.
It's sort of an inside-out tokamak. It can run fusion on hydrogen isotopes and unlike conventional tokamaks, it doesn't need overcomplicated equipment to keep the plasma at bay - in this one, any disturbance in the plasma flow creates a force that stabilizes it back again.
Google it up.[/QUOTE]
I googled it, and got 95 results, none of them relevant.
For people smart enough to make a star, they sure are dumb for making it on the Earth. Kinda like the people trying to recreate the Big Bang, on Earth.
[QUOTE=Creesco;21612533]For people smart enough to make a star, they sure are dumb for making it on the Earth. Kinda like the people trying to recreate the Big Bang, on Earth.[/QUOTE]
Again the media ctrying to scare people.
They recreate the [I]conditions[/I], not the Big Bang itself, by smashing two particles against each other at near-lightspeed.
And the black hole thingee: Small black holes vaporize faster thanks to good old Stephen Hawking and his radiation. A microscopic one would go *poof* before absorbing the nearest electron. And at that temperature it's harder.
I bet that California Edison will buy the method to harnessing nuclear fusion should this work.
[QUOTE=Creesco;21612533]For people smart enough to make a star, they sure are dumb for making it on the Earth. Kinda like the people trying to recreate the Big Bang, on Earth.[/QUOTE]
It's nowhere near the mass of a star like Sun. It merely functions similarly.
If it doesn't work, then there will be no loss, because we would have the largest laser device ever made, who knows how useful that would be?
[QUOTE=Smasher 006;21611145]It's not that we haven't got ways of making fusion happen, it's just we haven't got energy out of it yet. We always seem to need to put in vast amounts of energy for it to work.[/QUOTE]
Incorrect, the reactor successfully extracts a fair bit more energy that was put into it to ignite the reaction.
It's not a star, it's "microstar conditons", meaning huge heat and pressure, but in a small area with little to no room for normal star convection cycles.
Could you flick it at somebody and give them a nasty burn?
I remember the thread that was made when this badboy was being constructed and seeing the giant sphere the 192 lasers are getting shot into.
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