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California scientists make history after using world's biggest laser to replicate reaction that powers the sun
UK Daily Mail ^
| 12/12/2022
| James Gordon
Posted on 12/12/2022 3:04:19 AM PST by fruser1
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Jury is still out.
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posted on
12/12/2022 3:04:19 AM PST
by
fruser1
To: fruser1
Using this process, you can heat your home for about the cost of a small mountain of gold.
To: fruser1
Bearing balls range from .010” diameter to bigger than a softball. Be more specific.
And what did the apparatus COST?
To: fruser1
I think I've seen this movie before...
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posted on
12/12/2022 3:13:56 AM PST
by
xp38
(!)
To: Chad C. Mulligan
Divert 5% of the funding they’re burning up and we can have safe and efficient molten salt thorium reactors that run clean, generate almost no high-level waste, and create their own fuel.
To: fruser1
I would like to see the headline, “California scientists use world’s biggest laser to vaporize coyote that attacked California two-year-old”.
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posted on
12/12/2022 3:21:30 AM PST
by
Dogbert41
(Baruch Ha Ba Ba Shem Adonai!)
To: fruser1
Fletch was right, it’s all ball bearings.
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posted on
12/12/2022 3:30:45 AM PST
by
GMThrust
To: fruser1
If you want to boil water to drive a steam turbine - first create the Sun.
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posted on
12/12/2022 3:35:45 AM PST
by
MMusson
To: Dogbert41
California scientists use world’s biggest laser to vaporize coyote that attacked California two-year-oldJust leave out an ACME catalog and the coyote problem will resolve itself.
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posted on
12/12/2022 3:39:20 AM PST
by
70times7
(Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
To: fruser1
Now, instead of always being 20 years in the future, it will always be 19 years and 8 months in the future.
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posted on
12/12/2022 3:39:48 AM PST
by
Jonty30
(You can't spell liberal without the a-hole. )
To: Chad C. Mulligan
What happened to thorium reactors? Ten years ago Saudi Arabia seemed ready to purchase and install dozens.
To: fruser1
Pfff ... contact me again when you get to 1.21 gigawatts.
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posted on
12/12/2022 3:43:53 AM PST
by
70times7
(Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
To: fruser1
How clever: a cleaner, quicker way of killing the world’s unwanted population than via mRNA injections.
To: GMThrust
(Fletch was right, it’s all ball bearings)
These days.
I love that wing.
Terrific shape.
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posted on
12/12/2022 4:00:48 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: 70times7
You can buy plutonium at Twin Pines Mall
Or Lone Pine Mall
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posted on
12/12/2022 4:02:17 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: fruser1
The August test actually generated more energy than scientists predicted, and damaged some equipment.Paging Dr. McKay...
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posted on
12/12/2022 4:05:03 AM PST
by
A_perfect_lady
(The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
To: fruser1
(They heat it to about 100 million degrees)
Oh, so like a burrito 🌯 in the microwave at the corner gas ⛽ station...
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posted on
12/12/2022 4:15:58 AM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: fruser1
So it happened we are releasing this to the press but we can’t confirm it so don’t release it.
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posted on
12/12/2022 4:18:06 AM PST
by
pas
To: Dogbert41
I see what you did there.
To: fruser1
Reminds me of teenagers playing with fireworks. It’s all fun and games until someone loses a hand.
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