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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.
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.
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!"
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 finally get to see the glory of the Z Machine. Too bad this vision will be your last ...
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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.
I can explain it entirely with three words.
"Flying Spaghetti Monster"
Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
Here in Texas it usually starts with "Hey, hold my beer for a second"
Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
"How did they measure it ?"
They used Recording Industry math.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
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.
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!
Wow, I thought that joke had died out ages ago. Oh well...
In Soviet Russia, Natalie Portman heats YOUR grits!
You need the Ove-Glove!!
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden