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2006-11-20 Science & Technology

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Posted by .com 2006-11-20 04:25|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Don't worry; the Bushitler/Cheney/Halliburton/Global OilOilOil Consortium will kill it off before it reaches your home and business, so that their world domination can continue.

Besides which, of course, he hasn't developed a way to get energy out of his device. Clever kid, tho.

Posted by Bobby 2006-11-20 06:21|| 2006-11-20 06:21|| Front Page Top

#2 But why hope "to work for the federal government" ? ah, yes, expensive fusion research, ready for commercial use in 20 years, as has constantly been the case for 20+ years already.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2006-11-20 10:07|| 2006-11-20 10:07|| Front Page Top

#3 But, she wasnt really surprised, because he was always coming up with lofty ideas.Originally, he wanted to build a hyperbolic chamber, she said, adding that she promptly said no. But, when he came asking about the nuclear fusion machine, she relented.

Hmmm. Hyperbolic chamber. Ah, yes. Hyperbolic chamber. Figgers.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-11-20 10:28|| 2006-11-20 10:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds rather like he built a neutrino emitting device rather than a true fusion device. 3 things are needed to verify fusion reactions as far as I remember. 1) Emission of x-rays, 2) emission of neutrinos, 3) a positive net energy gain rather than loss in the process of fusion. You can bet he got 1 or 2 of the 3 necessary requirements

Mind you I'd do it anyways for the looks on my science teachers faces when I tell em they're standing close by to a radiation/neutrino emitting source.

Posted by Valentine 2006-11-20 10:39|| 2006-11-20 10:39|| Front Page Top

#5 So a "hyperbolic chamber" (presumably she meant "hypobaric") was out, but nuclear fusion is just fine?

Thiago is exhausting his love of physics...

Huh, same thing happened to me when I was writing my dissertation.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2006-11-20 12:30|| 2006-11-20 12:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Nice project. Of course fusing deuterium isn't a breakthrough, and I don't think he's fusing enough to actually produce "a small intense ball of energy." That's probably just the plasma glowing, with maybe a tiny amount of fusion inside the ball. Still, it beats any science project I tried in high school.

Posted by James">James 2006-11-20 12:45|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2006-11-20 12:45|| Front Page Top

#7 And then there's David an Eagle Scout wannabe.

Posted by Shipman 2006-11-20 13:12|| 2006-11-20 13:12|| Front Page Top

#8 That kid makes Eagle Scout in my book.

Posted by wxjames 2006-11-20 14:05|| 2006-11-20 14:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Damn. I thought my baking soda volcano was a big deal...

Posted by tu3031 2006-11-20 14:11|| 2006-11-20 14:11|| Front Page Top

#10 "About 40,000 volts of electricity"

I'd hate to have his parents' power bill....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-11-20 14:28|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-11-20 14:28|| Front Page Top

#11 better than Brian Regan's Cup of Dirt:

I think the worst day was the day the science project was due. Waking up that morningthat was fun, huh? Your head would pop off that pillow, Oh, no! Thats due today. I had nine months to work on it; I did nothing. I have a cardboard box of boxes. And youd show up; youre scared because you dont have anything good and you find out all the other kids their parents made theirs for em. I hated that, yanno? Theyre backing them in on flatbed trucks. One kid with a volcanohe didnt know how to zip up his own pants but he built a volcano. Howd you swing that?

I didnt know what to do for my project so I brought in a paper cup filled with dirt just hoping that shed know Im an idiot and just walk right on past me just as long as I was holding something.

What do you have there, Brian?

Its a cup of dirt. Just put an F on it there and let me go home.

Well, explain it.

Well, its a cup... with dirt.. in it. I call it Cup of Dirt. You should move on now. Just go ahead and move on. Head on down the line there.

So she went to this one kid; theres a kid in my class who made the same solar system like 19 years in a row. A bunch of Styrofoam balls held together with coat hangars. Hey, youre breaking some new ground there, Copernicus.

Hes going, The big yellow ones the sun. The yellow one is the sun.

OK, alright, what are these other planets?

The big yellow one is the sun.

Alright! Calm down!

Uh(shouts) ALRIGHT!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-11-20 15:30|| 2006-11-20 15:30|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm not worried about the hyperbolic chamber. I'm worried about some of that deuterium getting out and contaminating all of Oakland Township.

Natalice? Thiago? Who are these people?

"The air is sucked out and into a filter"?? We must be careful that he doesn't put up a website and leak all this to the jihadi.

Posted by KBK 2006-11-20 19:18|| 2006-11-20 19:18|| Front Page Top

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