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Physicists Create Great Balls of Fire

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cousin-marriage dept.

dylanduck writes "Talk about having fun at work. These guys have created luminous clouds of ball lightning up to 20 centimetres across and lasting up to half a second, longer and more realistic than before. There's a cool video too. They say it may even help understand how to contain the plasmas needed for nuclear fusion."

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  1. Let me be the first to say by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny

    Goodness Gracious!

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    1. Re:Let me be the first to say by mnemonic_ · · Score: 5, Funny

      -1 Flamebait.

  2. Re:weapons by AntEater · · Score: 4, Funny

    "This could be a potential weapon of the future..."

    Ah! Now that's the way to get your research funded. Forget about applying for NSF grants. Could my research potentially kill someone? If so, let the DOD fund it. No worries.

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  3. Ah yes, Science by GroeFaZ · · Score: 3, Funny

    They say it may even help understand how to contain the plasmas needed for nuclear fusion.

    Almost the best excuse to have fun, second only to reproduction.

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  4. the arcane by bjackz0r · · Score: 5, Funny

    So it's taken us this long to do what level 5 wizards were doing eons ago? I'll be impressed when they can aim these things accurately at orcs.

  5. Wow. by NetRanger · · Score: 1, Funny

    Watching that shook my nerves, and it rattled my brain.

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