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Lab Produces 3.6 Billion Degree Gas
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?"
... I got 3.6 Billion Degree Gas just by eating at Taco Bell last week.
Bruce
Let's see. The experiment released more energy than it expended....
Let me think a minute.
Yes.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
That's hot
They have no idea how, but they found all that thermal energy. "[T]he high temperature was achieved after the plasma's ions should have been losing energy and cooling. Also, when the high temperature was achieved, the Z machine was releasing more energy than was originally put in."
Sounds like magic to me!
I don't care what anyone says, these new pentiums just plain run too warm.
In late breaking news, it was revealed that a software bug cause this faulty reading. The correct value should have read: 150 degress.
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Meaning that the temperature increase was not caused by the energy source they know about, so something else provided the energy necessary for a temperature increase. We might choose to refer to this as an unknown energy source.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
We might choose to refer to this as an unknown energy source.
RAmen!
Nice, but what all Slashdotters really want to know is the temperature of Natalie Portman's grits!
The most memorable starts with "Hey, watch this!"
By the time it got to /. it had cooled down quite a bit. Should be ready to eat soon.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Yes, but it isn't that bad because its a dry heat.
Navicula hydraulica plena anguilarum est. Omnes castelli tuus nostri sunt. Ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta.
None of you have any idea what's going on! What really happened is these scientists have stumbled upon a gateway to hell, and this abnormally high temperature eminating from it is just the beginning of what can come out! We need to stop the scientists NOW before it's too late!
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. -- Larry Wall
you just described the plotline of iD's original Doom.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
... you finally get to see the glory of the Z Machine. Too bad this vision will be your last ...
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But if we had, the Russians would have won!
What?!?!
So the composition of said "campfire" being made of a pile of wood and possibly some flammable compound don't count as energy put in?
E=mc^2 all matter can be converted to energy.
Sounds like someone flunked basic physics.
The energy from a campfire doesn't come solely from the match.
Hell, I'd say you flunked basic common sense if you think that.
No unauthorized use. Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.
I had a gas attack once that reached 15 million Melvin.
Generally, bash is superior to python in those environments where python is not installed.
the error in the summary was 80% off, your use of incorrect units was 100% off, therefore you were more wrong
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
The Earths atmosphere ignites from some freak experiment gone astray.
If you're asked that question, things aren't too bad. Now when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission holds hearings to speculate on what you might have been doing when you vaporized yourself and everything within the good old 2 * unit n wide by 0.25 * n unit deep crater, that's bad. And if another intelligent race n lightyears away is wondering what in the hell you did doing exactly n years ago, why that's a real screwup. Bonus points for getting noticed in another galaxy.
but there was an unknown factor in place, which increased the temperature output by a factor of 10^5. This unkown factor is also said to be the main reason behind the unusually hot-air normally released in discussions on the subject of artificial fusion energy sources.
You can't handle the truth.
I can explain it entirely with three words.
"Flying Spaghetti Monster"
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The most memorable starts with "Hey, watch this!"
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And ends with "Uh oh
"My God...it's full of trolls!"
Here in Texas it usually starts with "Hey, hold my beer for a second"
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"How did they measure it ?"
They used Recording Industry math.
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Lets see... 0% humidity, 27,000,000 degrees F... thats like a heat index of FREAKIN HOT!!!
Navicula hydraulica plena anguilarum est. Omnes castelli tuus nostri sunt. Ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta.
Silly Texans. Real men hold their own beer while doing cool stunts.
But honestly, when you're there, you'd swear it was 15 million degrees Celcius, easy.
Dude, I think I can see my house from here.
There is a ginormous difference in 15M degrees F and 15M Kelvin.
Both are too hot for me to grasp. Even with hot pads.
You're obviously new here.
Temperature = Hot
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
If it's billions, we don't care if the unit is Kelvin, Fjfhskjdhheit or Celsius...
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Wow, I thought that joke had died out ages ago. Oh well...
In Soviet Russia, Natalie Portman heats YOUR grits!
Or when one man with a crowbar tries to save the wor...
I need to stop playing that damn game.
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
When you light a campfire with a match, you get more energy out than you put in.
Sorry, this is not a recipe for perpetual motion. For a new energy source, maybe, but not
perrpetual motion.
Well, we certainly don't need another one of those... "back to the drawing board, guys!".
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So we should be using 'microkilograms' instead of 'milligrams'? =)
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You need the Ove-Glove!!
I've read chemistry articles from military labs in which "surprisingly stable" compounds are reported. You can sense the disappointment.
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Crazy energy expirements, bizarre results? I wonder if Gordon Freeman works there...
Though, I imagine this might cause some problems for accident scene investigators.
"We're fairly certain a vehicle collision of some kind occurred, as evidenced from this satellite photograph showing the center of the blast zone to be somewhere in the middle of the intersection at 103rd and 9th."
"I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
-Hoban Washburn
Self proclaimed wannabe geek. You know how it is. Most of us who read this stuff probably fit in that category.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
Broken temperature gauge. :)
Soviet Russia moves to YOU!
That Z machine looks exactly like the thing in the begining of Half Life. Good thing I own at CS, this should be easy as long as I get a couple of lives....
It was later discovered that the heat actually originated from a nearby rack of Dell Poweredge 6800s.
Brian
If you consider 3.6 Billion degrees cold might I suggest not living in next door to Belzebub.
Or come to think of it anywhere in that general neighborhood.
Though should you find snow in the local forcast let us know will you.
Mycroft
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