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As an amateur faceter (it's hobby), this is very interesting indeed. To be able to take a bit of quartz or topaz or beryl or corundum, and cut it in such a way as to produce a "light cage" that is a thing a beauty has its allure. To think that the universe is based in its core upon such creations .....

Oh my. Get your degree in underwater basket weaving, accrue $100K in "college education" debt with no job prospects, and wonder why. What has this world come to? DOn't expect me to fund your folly...

This passage was quoted in "Elliott Wave Principle" by Robert Prechter Oh my, as a dual major in both economics and psychology I am well aware of the work of Ralph Nelson Elliott, and those that came after... Hamilton Bolton and Robert Prechter to name a couple. I'm shocked that anyone would refere...

@Hanleyp Now that was helpful. I'm not a lawyer, and definitely not a patent lawyer, but I do have multiple patent submissions where I am the named primary inventor. I do get the gist of "patent speak". It looks like here, they've found a novel way of containing the plasma to the vessel that reacts ...

The trouble is, I need something I can buy at a lowes or Menards to store power from my system.. I bought a 3.5KW Natural Gas powered generator from Lowes last year. Where I live, the power goes out occasionally. Not too often, but when it does it goes out for a day or two. When the power goes out,...

The Dante Detector is behind the rail to my left.

So how do you post a picture? In any event, the recent limited success of NIF (power of light hitting the target = net power out, not the power used to generate the light in the first place ..) was apparently due to the shaping of the pulse. Over the 1us of the pulse (about 20 feet of light) you sta...

One of the takeaways I got from my recent visit to NIF was that shaping the power delivered over the period of a shot drastically altered the output or gain from that shot. At NIF, they shoot ~1us laser pulses at a target. The pulse is shaped. It starts out with a certain level of power, then bumps ...

I spent the day Thursday out at NIF (they're a customer). I was able to go on a walkthrough inside laser bays and also some of the onsite manufacturing facilities. I never before really realized how small the targets actually are. The laser technology was interesting, but certainly not state of the ...

File that one under "Sad, but true".

I tend to think the the international reaction due to a degree raise in temperature to be kind of silly but when I think about sea life unable to grow calcium carbonate shells I get kind of worried. Uh, well... there's this thing called limestone; and if that's not enough there's this other thing c...

Let's hope nobody gets killed in a stampede by a herd of turtles. It's over now, looked like something straight out of a John Wayne movie when the cowboys went in and took the cattle back. The powers that be need to find a better way of doing things, because if some kid had set off a pack of firecr...

"It would be easyer just to keep on course and look back later to see if things changed. Sad but true."

Now that last part "sad but true" is a statement that has applied way too frequently in America since January 2009... Sad, but true.

Sigh

"could lead to a better understanding of nuclear dynamics in studying fission, superconductors and the workings of neutron stars."


Alrighty then. Fission powers stars ... at least according to this article. Oops.