Scientists attempt to create a star on Earth

#1

https://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/04/28/laser.fusion.nif/index.html?hpt=C1

ETA: 2012

#2

This can’t possibly go wrong.

#3

check out what I’m doing here - the world’s energy problem will be solved on Dec 21 2012 thru this fusion experiment!

#4

I wouldn’t call it a real star, as real stars are millions of times bigger than the whole Earth itself. :stuck_out_tongue:

#5

I’m still buying a crowbar, just in case.

#6

What next? Scientists attempt to recreate an epic FPS shooter game using the engine of the sequel to the same game?

#7

Heyooo!

#8

This 2012 thing is starting to sound like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me. I mean first the LHS and then them trying to create a star with a laser 3 times the size of a football field?

#9

This.

#10

BrokenFridge, I’m moving to your house for 2012.

#11

How many more dangerous experiments will be scheduled for 2012?

#12

“Microsoft founder Bill Gates announced in February that he is funding research in a modified and more sustainable version of nuclear fission, the type of reaction that powers the world’s existing nuclear reactors.”

Y…e…a…h… And if this tech is anywhere near as stable as Vista was, it should be a ringing success. (Our Father who are in heaven…)

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#14

well, I’m going to carve toruses into spheres and put them in physboxes come 2012.

#15

It would be a self-fulfilling if the people that made the prophecy were the ones building Hadron Colliders and stuff… however they aren’t.

#16

Protip: WE ALL GONNA FUCKIN DIE.

My business here is completed.

#17

All that is necessary for the prophecy to be self-fulfilling is for the builder to know about it.

#18

Scientists trying to reconstruct the circumstances that are said to have led to the Big Bang, and now scientists who are attempting to create a star. Both on the surface of our homeworld.

How reasonable. Considering that the Big Bang - if it really happened as we think it did - was the largest explosion in time yet, and how a star is nothing but a constant chain reaction of nuclear explosions.

But, thankfully, the men behind this know exactly what they are doing and wouldn’t try it if it were dangerous. I mean, we have learned our lesson from the creation of the atomic bomb, right? RIGHT? Have we not? … Guys?
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Hello?
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sigh :frowning:

#19

something good is going to happen in 2012, you are all just being emo about it

#20

I’m pretty sure the knowledge has to in some way be the cause in order for it to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Since knowing that the Mayans predicted the “end of the world” in 2012 has no effect on either of these projects (directly or indirectly), it cannot be self-fulfilling.

For example: Say someone tells you that tomorrow you’ll be killed by a meteorite hitting you. Because of this you panic and stay in your house all day instead of going out like you planned. Then a meteor crushes your house around the time you would have normally been out. This is a self-fulfilling prophecy because the prophecy itself led to the fulfillment.

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