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Nuclear Fusion Discovered
prostoalex writes "Both USA Today and The New York Times are reporting on research group from UCLA led by Seth J. Putterman which has discovered a form of nuclear fusion. The impact of the discovery? 'While the device is probably too inefficient to produce electricity or other forms of energy, the scientists say, egg-size fusion generators could someday find uses in spacecraft thrusters, medical treatments and scanners that search for bombs.' The findings are published in Nature magazine."
Anonymous Coward writes "Both Slashdot and Slashdot are reporting on the same story about the discovery of a form of nuclear fusion at UCLA. The impact of the dupe? 'While the dupe is probably too inefficient to produce new discussion or other forms of insight, the editors say, it could already find uses ad revenue creation through hundreds of comments about it being a dupe.' The findings are published in anti-slash.org."
Now if Slashdot could only fuse duplicate stories into one...
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What about Spider-Man 2? Precious tridium and all that? You're telling me that that wasn't proof of fusion? And on the big screen, no less!
10100111001
Can you really discover something twice on consecutive days???
;)
"My god, that discovery is even better than it was yesterday! I'm glad we discovered it again. Let's discover pepperoni pizza next!"
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Doc Brown: "Marty we've gone back in time!" Marty: "No Doc, It's just a repost."
Obviously this discovery can also allow previously posted articles to Travel Through Time and appear a day later.
Wow.
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... Subscribers can get a chance to see it early!
Unsubscribers can get a chance to read it yesterday!
That's fission. Fusion would lead to fewer dupes.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
That's why the editors can't see the dupes.
It seems like somebody's discovering cold fusion just about every day now. .
The only acceptable defense of scientific results is to say that they were the product of the Scientific Method.
Fusion, time travel... Multiple posts. Cmon.
Thats what usually happens when they get Slashdot up to 88 miles per hour.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Given the state of the modern patent system...
After patenting fusion, would you try to license or sue:
God, for infringing on your patent, with "billions and billions" of offending instances?
Everyone else on Earth, for receiving the benefits of the unlicensed fusion source?
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
Who wants to be the first person who walks into a hospital A&E and tries to give a sensible excuse as to how one of those got lodged up his bottom?
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
I'm going to go find the best comment from the previous story and re-post it here, thereby making myself look like a genious and simultaneously increasing my karma into the 'humongous' range.
I'll be right back.
The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally.
The following is *not* an informative comment by radtea from the previous story. I wrote this just now. Really.
What these guys have done is found a novel application of a relatively well-known means of generating extremely high electric fields. This is good, and may produce more compact, robust neutron generators than we currently have.
But it is clear from the article--and the basic physics--that this isn't a practical means of generating fusion power. This is just another hot fusion mechanism--it isn't "room temperature". The deuterium ions from the gas discharge are accelerated by the field and smash into the ErD surface with high energies.
The interaction cross-sections are such that virtually all of the D ions will slow down without fusing, and the energy that went into accelerating them will be only recoverable as heat, with the usual thermodynamic (in)efficiencies. The DD fusion cross-section just isn't high enough to overcome those losses.
Cool experiment, though.
The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally.
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No, Professor Farnsworth from Futurama.
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... and fuse this duplicate story with the one from yesterday.
I mean, come on, Slashdot editors - if you don't even read your own website, why would you expect anyone else to? At least I don't feel guilty about adblocking ads.odsn.com.
If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
Just a few days ago, there was another breakthrough in fusion. I distinctly remember seeing it on Slashdot. With not one, but two such methods, who knows how far we can go...
/looks at sun
//discovers fusion
///goes back to work
You have two hands and one brain, so always code twice as much as you think!
What the fuck? And you just had to post that sensitive piece of information on a public forum?
For your sake, I hope you're not an American since I just forwarded your post to the FBI.
I think what they have in mind is detection of fissile material (i.e. uranium and plutonium, as in nukes).
...
Are you fo shizzle about the fissile?
Sorry:)
Neither.
Both look like SCO's (no doubt patented) proprietary business model.