Chinese girl was cheating off of me and her phone during a math exam last week. The professor caught her and nothing happened <:tucker:378724715679711233>

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Who here has filled out the survey?

https://www.foxnews.com/science/teen-builds-working-nuclear-fusion-reactor-in-memphis-home

my scientific-minded self is seriously questioning how you can build an apparatus that contains superheated plasma hotter than the sun on meager allowance in your garage.

-But!

Welcome back @ExternalPepsi

@FlyingDutchmann this right after my buddy sends me a link to the “African child genius at Oxford”. To be fair the little African kid has autism so it might be true to some extent.

this is a Tokomak, a real fusion reactor >.>

okay so his is just a really small particle accelerator

pretty chad nonetheless

Hey y’all just finished the survey *dab*

@TIDE stellarator>>

hmmm idk on that

how many tokomaks are even being experimented on??

not many, friend! There are what? half a dozen stellarators?

and then a couple other private designs

We'll see what ITER says about that @NateDahl76

Fusion is easily produced on industrial scale. But it takes more power to sustain it than it produces. Lightning for example creates hotter than sun temps.

Net positive sustained fusion is the holy grail

Shit, can someone repost the survey? I can't find it

<#358430171583217664> @Chaos Dionysia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtf-1JibORg

Why doesn't africa have the ability to create fusion? Probably economic factors.

It’s because of colonialism

Wakanda tech makes fusion look like steam power. Get woke. <:galaxybrain:366743669484683264>

All the big brains left on their pyramids.

i didn't even know the wendelstein was running

@Matthias thank you

You bet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHlVoTHpoUs

great talk

@Perihelion - CA the "holy grail" descriptor makes it seem out of touch and impossible, when in reality that point isn't so far

Well people have been saying that for 50 years now

Well, we've been making ridiculous strides in the last decade. So that's a dumb point

Grail quest is ok by me

it's not like it's mathematically impossible or anything, it's just yet to be scaled and optimized for self-sustenance

Warp drives are mathematically possible

hence why bigger and better ones are breaking records all the time now

Im sure well get there at some point

okay I'm talking in a realm of physical things we're doing and you're just trying to discredit me on theoretical warp drives, k