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Build Your Own Cyclotron

kenthorvath writes "This guy and his friend built their own cyclotron, capable of 1 MeV protons using spare parts and surplus science equipment. Anyone else happen to have a 4600 lb. magnet lying around?"

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  1. Re:Terrorism by Jacer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    maybe no one should have developed them in the first place, why is it ok for a super power to posess a weapon of mass destruction and no one else? get a clue, if the super powers aren't the only one to have them, they'r eno longer the super powers, and it establishes a level playing field, maybe the third world countries with a few nukes will get a voice in somewhere and moph into a budding young, developing nation, which can attribute to the economic growth of the entire world.... now from there i'd move onto the evils of capitalism, but that's another argument

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  2. Re:Yesterday's technology, tomorrow! by shadowj · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Do you have any more links to sites about building these and maybe some info about safety?

    Do I look like a search engine?? Go find those links yourself... how do you think I found them?

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  3. Re:Hemispheric safety. by laymil · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    lets think about this for a second. where was this done? in a rutgers university physics lab, by a graduate student at the university. i wouldn't exactly call him an amateur...most likely he's at least as qualified as YOU.
    so please, don't dis my school like that.