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Lab Produces 3.6 Billion Degree Gas

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hotter-than-the-sun dept.

starexplorer2001 writes "LiveScience is reporting how scientists at Sandia's Z laboratory have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit (2 billion kelvins). That's hotter than the interior of our sun, which is only 15 million degrees F. And they don't know how they did it. Do we want anything that hot on our planet?"

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  1. so in summary by moochfish · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They don't know how they did it? Then can we trust this report? Are we sure their measuring tools aren't messed up? Are we sure someone misheard something? How can SCIENTISTS not know how they achieved a result in an EXPERIMENT that they - as implied in the article - managed to reproduce?? Again, I repeat, they don't know HOW they did it?

    I'm going to go out on a limb here and say their tools are not calibrated correctly or a computer glitch is crossing an i when it should be dotting it.

  2. Re:Summary is wrong yet again by sgarg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why does someone have to convert from Kelvin to Fahrenheit and screw up everything? When will the USAians understand that the world is metric. Even the British have switched to metric! Hopefully, the guys who read /. know Kelvin & Celsius, so there was *no* reason on earth (or the Sun, for that matter :)) to convert the units from those acceptable worldwide to that obsolete unit which is only used by a few million people in 1 country (out of 3) in North America and screw up majorly in the process!

  3. What? by robyannetta · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    What? Still no "That's still not as hot as Jessica Alba's ass" comment?

    You're slipping!

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