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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?
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?
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?
"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.
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."
Nevertheless, SCO cannot demand any money from the customers that use neutrons -- after all, they are free of charge.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
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?