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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. Big deal... by SirBruce · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... I got 3.6 Billion Degree Gas just by eating at Taco Bell last week.

    Bruce

  2. Do we want this? by rah1420 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's see. The experiment released more energy than it expended....

    Let me think a minute.

    Yes.

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    1. Re:Do we want this? by SEWilco · · Score: 5, Funny
      Let's see. The experiment released more energy than it expended....
      Too bad that half the time it destroys the planet. Fortunately we're always in the quantum universe which does not get destroyed. Well, this "we" is.
  3. To quote Paris Hilton by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's hot

  4. Getting out of hand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't care what anyone says, these new pentiums just plain run too warm.

  5. Re:"Some unknown energy source is involved" by mooingyak · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  6. Re:Summary is wrong yet again by SeeMyNuts! · · Score: 5, Funny


    Nice, but what all Slashdotters really want to know is the temperature of Natalie Portman's grits!

  7. Re:Summary is wrong yet again by gbobeck · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...which makes the Sun's interior actually 27 million degrees Fahrenheit.


    Yes, but it isn't that bad because its a dry heat.
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  8. 3.6 billion!? by xeon4life · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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  9. Bush: U.S. on Verge of Energy Breakthrough by PowerEdge · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bush: U.S. on Verge of Energy Breakthrough

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-56 35046,00.html

  10. Re:"Some unknown energy source is involved" by JudgeFurious · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here in Texas it usually starts with "Hey, hold my beer for a second"

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  11. Re:How did they measure it ? by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 5, Funny

    "How did they measure it ?"

    They used Recording Industry math.

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  12. Re:Summary is wrong yet again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, I thought that joke had died out ages ago. Oh well...
    In Soviet Russia, Natalie Portman heats YOUR grits!