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College Freshman Builds Fusion Reactor
Aiua writes "The Deseret Morning News is reporting that a Utah State University freshman has built a nuclear fusion reactor and compares how the student is similar to Philo T. Farnsworth (the inventor of the television and designer of the plans for a fusion reactor)."
Is his name Dexter by any chance?
Philo T. Farnsworth? Is he any relation to Hubert Farnsworth, inventor of the smelloscope?
Mr. Fusion! I wonder if he had any help from Doc and Marty?
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obviously this kid has created the reactor in order to forward his terrorist agenda of underming U.S. society by blowing up SCO
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why does the porridge bird lay his eggs in the air?
With a fusion reactor, I could finally generate that 1.21 Gigawatts of power needed to travel back in time. I've always had this idea of betting on horse races in the past and.......
Life is not for the lazy.
That kid obviously has waaaay too much time on his hands. I can't imagine doing that my freshman year.
Eagles may soar, but weasles don't get sucked into jet engines...
Boy, it seems as though Utah has invented yet another way to do fusion... didn't a pair of scientists from Utah already invent fusion once before? What were their names? Pons and Fleischman?
Oh yeah, I forgot... that line of investigation went cold.
...Building it would get him older college chicks?
... this puts new meaning into the words Freshman 15, 15 minutes of fame, 15 megawatts of Power, 15 years of trying to top this, 15 attempts at suicide, 15 divorces.
I guess he's supposed to be a smarty (even though the article says he followed someone else's instructions on how to build the reactor), but I sure hope he knows what he's doing so his classmates won't have to deal with growing extra legs and stuff...
He got second place in a science competition? It makes me wonder what project won first place. An advanced prototype of a nuclear fission weapon using kitchen grease as fissionable material? How manay days is it until April 1st?
"Others thought it was cool, too. Wallace began winning contests -- local, state, national -- culminating in second place in the International Intel Science and Engineering Fair last May in Cleveland. He's now beginning work on a USU physics degree."
What in the name of all that is geeky won FIRST place??
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"Craig built a neutron modulator (which slows down the emitted neutrons so they can be detected) out of a few hundred spare CDs. "
I guess we have a new winner for what to do with AOL CDs.
Craig built a neutron modulator (which slows down the emitted neutrons so they can be detected) out of a few hundred spare CDs.
Craig built a neutron modulator (which slows down the emitted neutrons so they can be detected) out of a few hundred spare CDs.
RIAA: "They wouldn't be CD's with pirated music on them would they ??"
Wallace: "No sir, Mr. RIAA-man. But you can have a look yourself. I keep them over there in that nuclear reactor. Fill your boots."
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.
Is that the next generation nintendo?
I'm in rare form tonight, must have forgotten my meds.
Little Brother, watching the watchers
The Bush Administration announced a military attack on Utah in order to destroy an incipient WMD program....
I'VE BEEN LOOKING ALL OVER FOR THAT!
Karma? Karma? I don't need no stinkin' karma.
" if you RTFA you'll see that it isn't actually a fusion reactor or reaction at all. What it is is a deuterium ion plasma generator."
... ion plas*cough*aarghph*cough* for a fusion reactor? Hey Rob, what kind of Mickey Mouse show are you runnin' here?
Errr, yeah; what kind of stupid bastard mistakes a deu... deuterium
*darts eyes back and forth*
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
... he will never *ever* get laid. Ever. Period.
We don't need an "overrated" so much as we need a "you completely missed the parent's point, dumbass..."
What's a "Darward Award"? A prize for being a Retard Evolutionist?
This reminds me of an old Bloom County strip where Oliver Wendell Jones built a nuclear bomb for his class science project. The teacher asked him where he got the fissionable material and he said he scraped all the glowing stuff off thousands of watch dials...
"Attention students! Fire drill!"
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
"They found a neutron detector in an Idaho Falls scrap metal yard. Craig built a neutron modulator (which slows down the emitted neutrons so they can be detected) out of a few hundred spare CDs. They found a broken turbo molecular pump lying forgotten at Deseret Industries." Did they find this stuff next to the broken particle accelerators? Or maybe under the old cray supercomputers?
also, things get easier with the more cocain you snort. snort enough cocain and you'll think you can build just about anything.
bite my glorious golden ass.
Some posts are saying that he'll never get laid, while others are commenting something about a 'breeder'. C'mon folks! Which is it?
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Son, it all starts when a man loves a woman...
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Good point. I think you've made an excellent foniillcoiunhiiicpcliaicatfin.
So what's the answer ?? Is Eating Blueberry Pie Bad for You?
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Debunking the "59 Deceits"
Craig built a neutron modulator
Looks like Mr.Crusher has some competition!
Others thought it was cool, too. Wallace began winning contests -- local, state, national -- culminating in second place in the International Intel Science and Engineering Fair last May in Cleveland. He's now beginning work on a USU physics degree.
Wow, building a nuclear fusion reactor only gets you second place in Intel's science contest? What did the kid who got first place do, find a cure for cancer?
Words this kid will never hear: "Baby, you make me hotter than a Poisser plasma reaction."
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
MacGyver's been doing this for years.
The only fusion I was worried about in high school involved a blonde with C cups.
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