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Scientists Building World's Most Potent Laser

DRB

unemployed bum
Oct 24, 2002
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Watchin' you. Writing it all down.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,157414,00.html

Bunch of science crap but I found this interesting:

The goal is to create unimaginable heat — 180 million degrees Farenheit — and intense pressure from all directions on a BB-size hydrogen fuel pellet, compressing it to one-thirtieth of its size.
Okay fusion would probably be a good thing... But it just seems to me this has bad news written all over it. I mean 180 million degrees farenheit could lead to one hell of an "oops, my bad."
 

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
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Kind of reminds me of some magnetic field stuff the Gov was working on. They built huge expensive machines to create extremely strong magnetic fields to test nuclear weapons designs. After the Soviet Union fell they found out the commies were getting the same results for a couple hundred bucks with the equivalent of a hand grenade on the end of a 2X4.