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Building a Homemade Nuclear Reactor In NYC
yukk writes "Mark Suppes, a web developer for Gucci, is working on his own personal fusion reactor. His work in a NYC warehouse using $35,000 of his own money and $4,000 raised on a website has made him the 38th independent researcher recognized as creating a working fusion reactor. How's that for a hobby?"
We all saw spiderman 2.
yeah, slashdot needs to stop posting this DIY crap. Even if it is interesting and nerdy it has no place here. We need to get back to politics and rants about the RIAA!
Can it run on garbage yet?
We all saw spiderman 2.
And we all want the 2 hours of our life back.
Does it run on banana peels? That would really be something.
that it isn't a Hahn configuration tritium moderated fission reactor.
somebody must have already done this in my neighbourhood as it's already overrun with mutants.
i know everyone is freaked out about the military thoecracy of iran and the cult of personality of north korea with nukes, and that nuclear technology will inevitably trickle down to smaller and smaller states: suriname, east timor, vanuatu... and then factional organizations: al qaeda, FARC, doctors without borders, make a wish foundation, girl scouts...
but when fashion designers have their hands on nuclear technology, i think we can pretty much declare the effort to contain nuclear technology over, and just start writing the epitaph for civilization. we're doomed
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Yeah! well you just wait until we hit peak light elements~
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Don't you mean Apple? The government needs to break them up for all their anti-competative behavior. You can't expect the invisible hand of the market to do anything with a company that makes such cool products.
I drank what? -- Socrates
NUCLEAR IS SCARY!!!
***This guy will be lucky if his neighbors don't lynch him***
People who live in NYC don't generally care enough about their neighbors to lynch them. Now Texas or Oklahoma, There any half way decent rabble rouser can get a lynch mob together with just a megaphone and few cases of beer.
You can't see ANYTHING from a car, You've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk...Edward Abbey
Mr. Wizard -- Today Timmy, we're going to take an old spatula, an inner tube and some macaroni noodles to make a nuclear reactor.
Timmy – Gee, Mr. Wizard! Aren't nuclear reactors dangerous?
Mr. Wizard -- No, Timmy! But old spatulas are! They can poke your little eyes out!
-- "In order to have power, I must be taken seriously." -Mojo Jojo
There seems to be a lot of humor impaired moderators this week.
Up in arms? Like perhaps EIGHT arms?
There are a lot of things I'd worry about. The biggest, if he did make it work (the article didn't say it worked, just that he was trying, which makes it non-news), would be the risk of fire. Ok, so you built a nuclear reactor in your apartment. Did you use sufficient gauge wiring when hooking up everything in your apartment, or are there small gauge extension cords run all over the place? :)
There are plenty of other things to worry about, but they'd be completely project unrelated. Like, waking up in the middle of the night feeling your girlfriend tickling your leg, and then finding out it's a roach. :)
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
So, pretty much any NASCAR race, rodeo, or BBQ then? :-P
I kid, I kid. (Especially since people from Texas and Oklahoma are known to carry guns. ;-)
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
insert ghost busters reference about unlicensed nuclear devices strapped to our backs.....
I've decided to Diversify my Holdings. I've divided my cash between my left and right pockets, instead of all in one.
You know, a working fission reactor has been done already... I think it's called the "sun". I believe the process goes something like this: 1) Place order for at least 2.0E30 Kg of Hydrogen 2) Wait for UPS/Fedex to deliver to your house 3) Wait for gravity to pull all of this Hydrogen together .....
4) Profit!
Obviously his insurer needs to know it cost him $35k when some yahoos decide to grab his fusion machine after they read about it.
This would explain why SOME DIY Fusors cost hundreds of dollars, but this one costs $35k, its a Gucci.
Well it is. People only noticed mine when I connected it to my NAS.
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.