Scientists to create star on Earth

Wow, a perpetual wheel. The key here is it yields 10x the energy used to create the fusion. It'd be nice to tell OPEC to go jump in a lake because "We got this."
 
I worked in the Nuclear weapons field and the ability to control this type of reaction is possible. I'll be excited if they don't blow them selves up.

I dont think they have anything to worry about though. It is a common misconception that thermo nuclear detonations have to be large. They can be microscopic. It takes quite a bit of material to create a weapon, so the amount of boom they could possibly get is no bigger that a conventional bomb you might see used in combat in Iraq.
 
Besides, a black hole's gravity is no stronger than that of whatever collapsed to make the black hole. It's a function of mass, not density . . .
 
I read somewhere that the smallest black hole ever found is only 9 feet in diameter.

Edit: just looked it up, it says it is 15 miles in diameter, don't know what I was thinking.
 
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did you say flow?

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"Its goal is to generate temperatures of more than 100 million degrees Celsius and pressures billions of times higher than those found anywhere else on earth"

well that sounds safe.
 
ugafan said:
"Its goal is to generate temperatures of more than 100 million degrees Celsius and pressures billions of times higher than those found anywhere else on earth"

well that sounds safe.
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Yeah, I'd hate to spill some of that junk on my leg, I think it would really hurt. Sounds worse than that Black Hole stuff Jimerson was talking about.
 
My concern is that this is occurring in Livermore, CA, about 15 minutes down the highway from my office :shocked:

Well if I suddenly stop coming around, you'll know the star experiment was a failure
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Larry R said:
My concern is that this is occurring in Livermore, CA, about 15 minutes down the highway from my office :shocked:

Well if I suddenly stop coming around, you'll know the star experiment was a failure
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Or if you show up one day with a REALLY good tan, we know it was a success!
 
Did I hear someone call my name? Here's a top secret picture of the lab I took after I designed the Doc Bernard Quantum Singulatory Fluxination Harmonic Capacitor for them. It would have never worked without it. They thought a regular flux capacitor would work, everyone knows regular flux capacitors are only for time travel.

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And here's some of the guys working on it:
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Black holes are tricky buggers, gotta use robots as much as possible.
 
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Cool. Nuclear fusion would be great to have, but at the same time, if this does work like they think it does and once the tech is ready I wonder what the current energy companies and oil companies will do to make sure this doesn't actually become the dominant power source on the planet. Also, couldn't the companies that eventually control this technology and the infrastructure to deliver it to all of us charge ridiculous rates for the service if they can eventually produce limitless energy?

And is it just me or does it look like there is a giant pencil pointing right at the guy on the raised crane platform in the article's picture?
 
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