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5,318008 seconds should be a new goal.
Flexing
Flexing is not good for the containment
A headline without calling it an "Artificial Sun"?!
The amusing thing is that the sun is actually quite a shit fusion reactor. It's power per unit volume is tiny. It just makes it up in sheer volume. A solar level fusion reactor would be almost completely useless to us. Instead we need to go far beyond the sun's output to just be viable.
It's like describing one of the mega mining dumper trucks as an "artificial mule".
The power of the sun in the palm of my hand.
1,337 seconds? That... that number used to mean something, but now i can't recall what...
The translation has been lost to the ages
Found someone who can help.
Hahaha thank you for this gift
It used to be better. The subtitles were all in 13375p34k if you turned them on, but it looks like they got replaced by the YouTube automated subtitles at some point.
It's still there as an option: Zulu - 1337
Oh, glorious!
I still use 1337 sometimes, for joke names like 1337h4xX0r, or I use 1337 where others would use 42 or 69, but it's always that nobody gets it. How could past internet culture vanish like that?
All your base are belong to us
Meanwhile in America we’re trying to make macdonalds cheaper by bundling an extra sandwich to go along with a value meal…
America would blow up a fusion reacto, call it dangerous, elon musk has a lot of things to say about it and then it would be illegal worldwide. Have you guys heard about coal? We already fixed it, just burn coal.
Maybe if it runs longer, we all get to jump to a better timeline. 😅
Or the world blows up and it’s all over. I guess what I’m saying is, no downside, fire it up and let’s see what happens.
No tech will give you a better timeline, back on the floor please ^^ It's a political problem before anything else, and energy production is far from being the first problem.
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This is freaking awesome. Only a few years ago it was exciting to see a fusion reaction last a fraction of a second.
It is awesome. Whichever country develops it first will be remembered as the next ‘moon landing’ event forever.
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Oh shit. Things are heating up in the fusion race.
IIRC it was expected because previous record from China was essentially a trial for this one. It all happens under ITER project so it’s not that much of a race.
Good shit. I’d rather this be a global cooperative effort rather than a jingoistic dick-waving contest.
It's several cooperative and competitives projects. Diversity is not bad for science anyway. ITER itself involve tons of countries.
Why don't we use "shatters world record" like the pro-China articles where they did this for 16 minutes?
I know why.
Because that one was over double the length of the record before it and this one is closer to a 35% increase.
So it's probably just a "slams"
'Boinks'
whopping
France bamboozles chinas nuclear reactor time with a steel chair
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This is cool but also remember the practicalities of Fusion make it not much better than nuclear:
Well nuclear is great, so even "not much better" would be great.
Guarantee you they weren't generating a whole lot of power though.... And if you can't do that part then what's the point?
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