It's dangerous...But it could do so much for us...I am personally on the fence.

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Thank you, SuperMage

Maybe he means the giant lasers. :hubbahubba:

Read the rest of the thread.

If you won't, then allow me to summarize; it's not dangerous, there is no fence to sit on in the first place.

I, for one, tend to let the people who have, you know, kinda, dedicated their lives to this stuff, decide whether or not to proceed, because nobody on this forum, save maybe Dogsbody, is qualified to make that decision.

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I'm all for nuclear power. The military has had nuclear powered ships and submarines since what, the 50's?

It's an old concept, though. I first heard about a "star in the jar" experiment back around mid-90's.

That's it, i've never understood why a fusion reaction releases energy, though. But i don't have to, i'm not a nuclear phycisist, just a simple software developer

I'm no Scientist, and I sure as hell didn't read the rest of this thread, but they want to create a star on the surface of the Earth????

Won't that like.... burn a little bit? :unsure: A wee bit hot, me thinks?

When hydrogen fuses with hydrogen you get helium and a neutron or proton (depending on what hydrogen isotopes were fused) This weighs less than the two original hydrogen isotopes. The mass lost is converted to energy due to mass–energy equivalence (that E=mc² formula)


As has been said tens upon tens of times in this thread: They are not creating a star on the surface of the earth, it is merely an extremely small fusion reaction, and fusion happens to be the power source of stars, so some idiot decided to claim that they were making a mini-star.

It will burn a wee bit hot, 100 million degrees centigrade, of course we've burned stuff much hotter than that on Earth many times before. Our record is just shy of 2 billion degrees centigrade IIRC. Burning a small thing really hot is a non-issue and quite safe in a lab.

Good to know.

Scientists also said people will live on mars,have flying cars,time travel,space travel...etc. its all LIES.

We have all of these things. Flying cars may not be mainstream, for very good reasons, but several different implementations are technically feasable. For time travel, we're already doing it, and could travel into the future more slowly by harnessing relativity, and space travel? Not very far, but still!

If they left things alone, you wouldn't have anything you have right now.

I think this is cool. It's pretty hilarious how people panic when anything tries to advance. OMG 2012 WTFHAXORZ...

True but I doubt that in 20 years or less life would be like Star Wars,Mass effect,etc.
EDIT: I could be wrong though.

Yeah
90% of the fancy technology in ME is almost entirely Mass Effect powered, though - something we have yet to prove is even possible, never mind exists :'(

I didn't mean inventions or even the fusion thing, I meant screw with things that should be left alone, big example human cloning. One Mr. Oblivion is enough.

That 2016 comment was from the TV show 'Flash Forward', it was a joke, not sure if you were reply to me on that.

EDIT: Those who panic will be somewhat prepared just in case. Those that are heroes will scratch their ass and beg for help from someone who was prepared if something happens. Better to not happen, though..

An interesting idea. It can't turn out worse than when they tried to blow a piece of the moon up a few months ago to see if theres water in it, Because that was a massive :facepalm:

All i'm saying is that fusion energy is self sustaining. It'd be great to have on this world...and seeing the economy change overnight would make me laugh a bit.

Slightly off-topic Q, but haven't scientist looked at using anti-matter for energy? In my viewpoint, that is MUCH worse that fusion energy...

Sure, because we have loads of antimatter to experiment on.


When it comes to science, there's no such thing as "should be left alone". Obviously there are moral issues, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't research human cloning, nuclear power, or anything else - scientists should do science, for science's sake. Yes, you can make a nuclear bomb, but that does not mean there are no good ways to use knowledge of nuclear power.

They shot something into to moon; they didn't try to blow it up....

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Then we see 2 different views. I still agree in what I said but not disagree with you.

I can think of only one response to this: .

Almost every source of energy, from oil to honey to wind, originally come from a star: that one we call 'the Sun'. And given that this planet -and therefore all life on it- is pretty much made from star dust...


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I wonder if Jiub put the cliff racers on Mars..

If helium ends up being a by-product of fusion, then we've got pretty much all the ingredients for airships!