Vulcan laser cooks at a cool 10 million Celsius
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- mattbrawn
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Named the Vulcan laser, like something from Star Trek, but much hotter, it uses some fancy energy concentration techniques that are equivalent to the world's electricity production x100, then focusses all that into an area only a few thousandths of a metre.
Scientists can only replicate the effect for a fraction of a second, with the developing processes possibly being linked to future developments in a nuclear fusion reactor.
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Juas
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Live long and prosperous, motherfucker
- 4 years ago
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Juas
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Yihua
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Humanity might be screwed with this one.
- 4 years ago
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Yihua
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jubal
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Imagine if this thing is put into space as a weapon!
- 4 years ago
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jubal
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helloignorants
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Could this be the making of the a new more powerful way to cook food. but i think 7 eleven already has one. don't leave anything in more the 45 seconds.
- 4 years ago
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helloignorants
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lifestudentno83
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This is only one step in the evolution of laser technology; the next one is lightsabers!
I'll take a Darth Maul staff as well, please.
- 4 years ago
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lifestudentno83
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hack26
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Actually, nuclear fusion would require temperatures closer to the CENTER of the sun. Much, much hotter than the surface of the sun.
Scientist are going to be trying to do that in a couple of years at the National Ignition Facility in California.
- 4 years ago
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hack26
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Dmitri_Molotov
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Hmmm. Something tells me this could make a pretty sweet orbital ballistic missile defense system if you slapped a nuclear reactor and some solar panels to it and sent into low orbit.
- 4 years ago
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Dmitri_Molotov
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b3atboxjr
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so, mount it on the moon and then hold the world ransom for.... ONE MILLION DOLLARS
- 4 years ago
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b3atboxjr
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UWAZell
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I would think that scientists would be concerned with the possibility of igniting the oxygen rich atmosphere with a laser reportedly as hot as the sun.
- 4 years ago
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UWAZell
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monk_juice
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Next thing you know they want to create a new sun, if our current one starts to die. [SciFi]
- 4 years ago
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monk_juice
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HughbertD
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Finally scientists acknowledge that bacon needs to be cooked faster
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HughbertD
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BrianMcFayden
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Max, Brian, and Jason commenting on the future of Sun-energy production.
- 4 years ago
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BrianMcFayden
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Scott_Bromley
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20 bucks says a Vulcan laser cooked burrito is still cold in the middle
- 4 years ago
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Scott_Bromley
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CarlosIsDown
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Just have the laser stop in mid air and we've got some lightsabres.
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CarlosIsDown
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eldamon
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This has to have some military application we're not seeing just yet.
- 4 years ago
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eldamon
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ivxx
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Wonder how much their electric bill is?
- 4 years ago
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ivxx
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dmass5
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Why would we need something that hot. It could be something neat to shoot down planes or missles.
- 4 years ago
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dmass5
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saverio
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Can it be used for cooking purposes?
- 4 years ago
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saverio
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richjm
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Hotter than the surface of the sun? Woah!
They should shoot that thing through a magnifying glass at some TVs and see what happens, just for kicks.
They're probably busy doing science stuff so that might need to wait until a Friday afternoon, just before post-work drinks.
- 4 years ago
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richjm
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abbym0308
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I'm wondering what the purpose of a laser hotter than the surface of the sun would be. Perhaps it has something to do with this video?
- 4 years ago
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abbym0308
