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Physicists Create Great Balls of Fire

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. 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.

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

    -1 Flamebait.