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Can World's Largest Laser Zap Earth's Energy Woes?
newviewmedia.com writes "Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory plan on using a laser the size of three football fields to set off a nuclear reaction so intense that it will make a star bloom on the surface of the Earth. If they're successful, the scientists hope to solve the global energy crisis by harnessing the energy generated by the mini-star."
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everyone dies apart from Bruce Willis
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Ted Stevens, is that you?
Well, if the star turns out to be a problem, you can get rid of it with a black hole from the LHC...
At the very least this is one laser you don't want to look into with your remaining eye.
"If anyone needs me, I'm in the angry dome."
One frickin' huge shark.
Thought thinks itself.
My question is "Can we find a shark big enough?"
Hey, don't complain - usually we just link to a blog, which links to another blog linking a twitter feed with a tinurl-obfuscated link to another blog finally linking to a tabloid article. When you worked yourself through that link chain, you have all the information you need to google for the original source, which, of course, is behind a paywall.
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
If the laser is the size of 3 football fields how big does the shark have to be?
Hope is the currency of fools