Slashdot Mirror
France to Be Site of World's First Nuclear Fusion
brad writes "The New York Times (free registration) is reporting that 'France won an international competition today to be the site of the world's first nuclear fusion reactor, an estimated $12 billion project that many scientists see as essential to solving the world's future energy needs.'"
If only /. editors could develop a method for fusing dups.
Try paying attention to your own site.
Falun Dafa is good!
Just fuse the original story and this dupe into a heavier-Z nucleus story.
make world, not war
ah, that same old song, except this time all on the same screen!
This is sectioned "Hardware", not "Science", so perhaps this time around we could have an actual discussion on fusion technology and the planned plant, not devolve into a flamefest between idiots.
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
I didn't have time to read the article the first time it was posted today. Thanks for the helpful dupe!
Can't you at least wait until the original article scrolls off the main page before you post the same article again...
How hard is it to CHECK THE MAIN PAGE BEFORE YOU POST?!
*bangs head on table*
My only desire would be that the safety procedures at the new reactor are placed under the control of a third party - preferably a college frat house, its members well supplied with halucinogenic drugs, and who could control the reactor's safety computer systems (based on Windows ME) over the Internet from their own dormrooms via a non-secured link.
[x] auto-moderate all posts by this user as insightful
Seastead this.
Since they already have EuroDisney, and this Fusion thingy might not pan out, the headline just as easily could have been:
France to Be Site of World's Second Largest Boondogle
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
World = planet Earth. The sun is a bit far from the world.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Who can remember that long ago? I had to google it to verify that you were right. Luckily, it was still in Google's cache.
I, for one, welcome duplicate stories.
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
Looks like the half-life of a slashdot story is about 7.5 hours...
Culture is more than commerce
This is the news that doesn't end,
yes it goes on and on my friend,
some people started posting it not knowing it's a dupe,
now they'll continue duping it forever just because...
(repeat)
Circumcision is child abuse.
The French are going to have TWO nuclear fusion reactors. They are becoming a top world power! :D
Fusors are a common source of neutrons; specially seemingly simple arrangements like the Farnsworth fusor (that's right, the same guy who invented TV). The hard thing about fusion is getting excess energy from it.
All joking aside, wouldn't it be nice if SlashDot's main page worked just like the moderation system? Every submitted story would start with a value of 1 and each moderator could push a story up or down one point. Of course, it all comes together when each user sets their own threshhold for front page stories...
I'm guessing this feature has already been suggested for SlashCode implementation. Maybe I should go check...
...hydrogen bombs?
A quick trip to google news will show you 307 other sources of this story, which don't require registration. It seems to me like slashdot should never have to link to NYT from the main page.
I can understand if my suggestion is not taken seriously. I only hope it doesn't lead to 307 more dupes.
Hmm... 3 times have been done before, but never on the FP I think.
c id=12747639 1 15432 c id=12603539
l d=1&commentsort=0&tid=95&tid=172&mode=thread&cid=5 638044
1 13809
d otdupe.html
d upe/
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=151936&
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=144601&cid=12
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=150292&
Of course there was the April Fools Trupe of yore:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=59193&thresho
And then there are the many dupes by the same "Editor" (Usually Zonk):
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=144599&cid=12
Ah yes, and then there was the dupe that occured less than an hour after the original. There has been some debate as to whether that was even a dupe or just a Slashvertisement, but for our purposes today we will just call it a dupe:
http://www.andrerestivo.com/weblog/archives/slash
All of this has been documented for your protection here:
http://anti-slash.org/injustices/CmdrTaco/double_
HJ
I believe Amazon has already patented this idea, maybe you should send them a check for disclosing proprietary information.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
UCLA has a nuclear fusion reactor (taurus type) on the bottom floor of Boelter Hall, North-East corner. As the parent said, the title is idiotic, as is the body of the story, and the editor certainly is no genius.
When it is duped next time it better be in the "Games" section. I want to play a nice game of Sim Fusion Power Plant.
End of year report: You have wasted X money and have angered X environmentalists. Your rank is Sparky Squirrel.
Tip: Hire more contractors. (Turn tips off? yes/no)
It sure seems that Timothy dupes posts on a recurring basis. "The Duplicator" should be his pen name.
Oh... wait... didn't someone post something about this already??? Silly me.
Web hosting that doesn't suck!Dreamhost
Tokamak technology goes back around 60 years, not 30. It was invented in the 1940s. There is a replica of the original Tokamak style reactor in a small museum at General Atomics in San Diego.
General Atomics, by the way, is in a very Republican area. GA has one of the biggest fusion programs around, AND is part of the established energy industry. They do have a gigantic magnetic fusion reactor there, but also a number of groups working on alternative fusion technologies.
Tell me, did you ever work out what that grey stuff between your ears was for?
FUSION IS NOT FISSION. A FUSION REACTOR CANNOT GO BOOM EVEN IN THEORY.
While crying and moaning about dupes and rejected submissions isn't exactly constructive criticism, I have to voice my disappointment with the Slashdot editors, especially Timothy, on this one.
I feel particularly annoyed about this news bit. Why is that? Well, I happened to submit this story early tuesday morning (about 10 am GMT / 6 am EST) and it got rejected. It happens and as such is not a big deal. But the following is imho rather embarrassing.
Not only was this news piece accepted and posted on Slashdot later as someone elses submission, it was actually accepted & posted twice (becoming yet another infamous Slashdot dupe). And in this case the poster of the dupe was no other than Timothy, who rejected my submission.
It seems he initially didn't think this particular news was important and rejected my submission. I knew it was an important bit of news to anyone who follows physics and nuclear stuff, a category which many slashdotters fall into. Potentially and on the long run this could be important news to everyone on the planet who uses electricity.
Anyway, the next day Timothy seems to have decided that a less comprehensive and informative submission on the same subject is worth posting, and as icing on the cake, he does it without even bothering to check the site's own news from yesterday (the already posted story was actually still on the frontpage!) thus creating a dupe story.
Only on Slashdot do you find editors who don't even read their own site's frontpage when posting a news story (to avoid dupes), nor remember that they rejected the very same story yesterday. We're all human and mistakes happen. And I'm sure the editors get swamped by a huge number of submissions, which probably aren't exactly a joy to wade through trying to pick the worthy ones.
However, these sort of things seem to happen a bit more often than they could or should. Perhaps the editors could put a little more time and effort into the process, since many of the previous, similar mistakes seem rather easily avoided (at least to a
Ps. Here's my original Slashdot submission about this story just for reference (with a forgotten BBC link added):
After 18 months of wrangling over the construction site of the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) the participants (China, EU, Japan, Russia, South Korea and USA) finally agreed upon Cadarache in France over Rokkasho-Mura in Japan. Japan withdrew its bid after getting a concessions package deal. The 10 billion ($12bn) project will be the 2nd most expensive joint scientific project after the ISS and hopefully a gateway to a commercial fusion reactor prototype. Construction should begin this year and be completed in 2015.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure of the former" - Albert Einstein
Yours didn't have a NY Times link. And yours wasn't at all misleading and sensationalist, either. To spice things up, maybe add a condescending sentence at the end, like so:
The world's first fusion reactor is soon to be completed in France. Nuclear Fusion is what powers the sun and hydrogen bombs. w00t!
And last, but not least, submit it under the wrong category, like say, Star Wars.
It is called Scoop and you can see it at (among other places) SciScoop.com. Everyone gets to vote on stories, not just the moderators. I post several articles a week myself.