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snousleI was surprised to read that the National Ignition Facility is about to come online. John worked at LLNL for a long time, so we got a lot of insider dish on the project, and it was so troubled that somewhere along the line I had come to believe it was canceled entirely.
Wow, this is serious woody material for those with a mad-scientist fetish. The obsessive pointy-endedness of it all is uncanny - that huge, expensive machine, all focused down on a spot just a few millimeters wide. Using a flash of light just twenty nanoseconds long to uncover the secrets of the universe, it's the world's most dramatic symbolic representation of premature ejaculation.
The resulting fusion reaction is expected to release as much energy as several kilograms of TNT. Amazing that they can keep it confined. I wonder what the shots look like? (Yes, they call it a "shot" when they fire it off.)
Plus, now we all get to use archaic, scary-sounding words like hohlraum when talking about it.
Oooh, shiny.
Alarming fact of the day: they want to put plutonium into it, too. Mmm, tasty. I wonder what their plan is for cleaning up the mess afterward.
Wow, this is serious woody material for those with a mad-scientist fetish. The obsessive pointy-endedness of it all is uncanny - that huge, expensive machine, all focused down on a spot just a few millimeters wide. Using a flash of light just twenty nanoseconds long to uncover the secrets of the universe, it's the world's most dramatic symbolic representation of premature ejaculation.
The resulting fusion reaction is expected to release as much energy as several kilograms of TNT. Amazing that they can keep it confined. I wonder what the shots look like? (Yes, they call it a "shot" when they fire it off.)
Plus, now we all get to use archaic, scary-sounding words like hohlraum when talking about it.
Oooh, shiny.
Alarming fact of the day: they want to put plutonium into it, too. Mmm, tasty. I wonder what their plan is for cleaning up the mess afterward.
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Date: 2009-05-04 05:50 am (UTC)Maybe some strangelets from the LHC?
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Date: 2009-05-04 07:07 am (UTC)