French Fusion

Post by **Sandman** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:12 pm

I dont think the reation will be stable and it is going to blow up all of europe and send a tidal wave to hit the east coast of the US. Just thinking out loud. Hurry every one out of europe it is going to explode!

Post by **oneofakind** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 6:45 pm

Nah...
Don´t want to leave the old continent. Can´t imagine going anywhere else.
Besides, the project is in good hands!

Post by **RedEyes** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:07 pm

LOL This reminds me "disaster movies". Somebody warns the rest, but nobody listens to him/her until it's too late.

Post by **oneofakind** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:37 pm

I don´t believe it´s really going to blow up. Besides, i don´t think that they´re going to experiment with huge amounts of the fusion components at one time, so even if it does blow up it won´t take whole Europe with it.

Another question is, if we escape, where should we go?? To USA? Mhhhh... no, I better stay where I am, it should be far away enough!!

Post by **Necromancer** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:55 pm

We will build a big catapult and throw it to the USA before it explodes.

Post by **calvin** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:19 am

Necromancer wrote:We will build a big catapult and throw it to the USA before it explodes.

wouldn't the Arctic be a little more reasonable... what do you have against America?

Post by **Sandman** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 5:52 pm

Necromancer wrote:We will build a big catapult and throw it to the USA before it explodes.

The US will lauch intercept missiles from kodiak, 120 mile from were I live, to blow it up. With that it will probably make a new sun out of the earth, all thanks to the French.

Post by **Killfile** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:40 pm

Unlike a fission reaction which just requires fuel to keep going, a fusion reaction requires fuel, heat, and pressure. If the reaction runs out of control, it breaches the containment vessel. When that happens, heat and pressure drop (because it's no longer contained). Beyond a very small amount of residual damage from the heat, there's no risk of any damage.

So, that movie about the cold fusion disaster with Morgan Freeman was bullshit.

Post by **oneofakind** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 9:34 pm

I already thought about that.
They wouldn't´t build something like that if it would be so dangerous.

Besides, we were just trying to have some fun...

Post by **Necromancer** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:48 pm

calvin wrote:
Necromancer wrote:We will build a big catapult and throw it to the USA before it explodes.
wouldn't the Arctic be a little more reasonable... what do you have against America?

Nothing, really it's just the best opportunity to kill many members of this forum.

Post by **calvin** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:12 am

Necromancer wrote:
calvin wrote:
Necromancer wrote:We will build a big catapult and throw it to the USA before it explodes.
wouldn't the Arctic be a little more reasonable... what do you have against America?
Nothing, really it's just the best opportunity to kill many members of this forum.

gotcha

Post by **Sandman** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 6:31 pm

The Spiderman 2 movie was also wrong? Seems that if a reaction happend it would keep on happening even with out a contanment field until there was nothing left to react to. But who knows until it happens, until then it is all just thoery.

Post by **psi29a** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 6:43 pm

Sandman wrote:The Spiderman 2 movie was also wrong? Seems that if a reaction happend it would keep on happening even with out a contanment field until there was nothing left to react to. But who knows until it happens, until then it is all just thoery.

Not theory, reality. Z-machine for example, soon as contanment is broken... the reaction shuts down. The sun operates the same way, HUGE amounts of gravity to keep the reaction (heat/energy) near the same area to keep the process moving along. Soon as containment is broken or fuel is used up, there is no more sun.

Post by **MrFelony** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:09 pm

man life is just so much more excitign when youre doin somethin that can kill you...but its nice to know that fission is safer than portrayed in the movies.

Post by **psi29a** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:47 pm

MrFelony wrote:man life is just so much more excitign when youre doin somethin that can kill you...but its nice to know that fission is safer than portrayed in the movies.

... FUSION... its fusion that is safer in reality than in the movies.

Post by **MrFelony** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:12 pm

haha whoops...thats what i meant

just got them mixed up for a sec.

Post by **calvin** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 3:36 am

i wish scientists would stop naming similar things like that with similar names. it seems to happen a lot

Post by **psi29a** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 3:42 am

calvin wrote:i wish scientists would stop naming similar things like that with similar names. it seems to happen a lot

And for good reason, try reading up on history of languages.

Post by **Arresty** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:02 am

Internet and Intranet bother me. Mainly because they are completely different, but sound damn near the same when you are speaking. I always try to accent the TRA in intranet as to save confusion. I know it is because it all decends from latin and inter- meaning outside and intra meaning inside, but it bothers me that both words sound so alike. Well that was way of topic.

On topic, Fusion kicks ass.

Post by **psi29a** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:27 am

Internet is a proper-noun, when talking about The Internet. An internet is an inter-connected network, and intranet is an intra-connected network. 3 very distinct and subtle things.

It gets worse!

Post by **Arresty** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:43 am

Man I love our use of latin for all scientific words. Make for such ease of communication, and no confusion.

Post by **Necromancer** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:43 pm

Latin at all is a cool language sounds so special sometimes.
I never learned it but I've got an online dictionary.

Post by **RedEyes** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:53 pm

definitely quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur* ... anyways, vah! denuone Latine loquebar? me ineptum. interdum modo elabitur**

* = anything said in Latin sounds profound
** = Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out

Post by **Skullkracker** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:09 pm

Hah, you've got the makings of a lawyer...provided you are also shameless...(sorry lawyers)

Post by **Killfile** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:41 am

Don't forget my old favorite --

Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori

It's from Horace, "It is fitting and nobel to die for one's country."

Of course, it's much better used by Willfred Owen RE: WWI.

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! --- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime ---
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,---
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.