Fusion In Sonoluminescence (Again)? 417
srhuston writes "According to a story at the NY Times (first born child req'd, yadda yadda), 'Scientists are again claiming they have made a Sun in a jar, offering perhaps a revolutionary energy source, and this time even some skeptics find the evidence intriguing enough to call for a closer look.' This has been covered here before (First, second, third) but it looks like they claim that the latest round of experiments, using better detectors, 'offer more convincing data that the phenomenon is real'." The scientists involved come from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Purdue University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Russian Academy of Science; here's their press release.
Bah (Score:0, Funny)
Well... (Score:5, Funny)
No, no, not sun in a jar (Score:0, Funny)
Canned Sunshine (Score:5, Funny)
A SUN in a jar? (Score:5, Funny)
double entendre (Score:5, Funny)
Cold fusion will always be with us (Score:5, Funny)
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Weekly Schedule (Score:5, Funny)
Monday: Patch Windows
Tuesday: Stop SCO's latest plan
Wednesday: Invent Fusion
Thursday: Patch Linux
Friday: Watch LoTR while patching Windows
Since they got Fusion out of the way early today, I think I have a little time to go bash Infinium Labs some more. Tally ho!
I'll believe it when... (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, thought this was an Episode 3 item. (Score:4, Funny)
In other news, (Score:5, Funny)
...obligatory Simpsons quote (Score:2, Funny)
>>>JasonF, a scientist at NCSU, has created a perpetual motion machine!
"In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" - Homer S.
obligatore simpsons quote (Score:3, Funny)
Young lady, in this house we obey the second law of thermodynamics!
Sonoluminescence? Fusion? (Score:1, Funny)
Fusion In Sonoluminescence
First the win a grammy for Best New Artist, and now they're experimenting with jazz. I, for one, welcome our new musically-experimental overlords.
Key to the breakthrough (Score:2, Funny)
Sir! (Score:2, Funny)
I know the stupid filter says "Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING" but I AM YELLING!
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
$wittySig
"Sun in a jar" (Score:3, Funny)
Do you have the sun in a jar? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Canned Sunshine (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Well... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Energy (Score:4, Funny)
Without that, they usually don't work very well.
Finally! (Score:1, Funny)
I bet that radioactive bubbly acetone... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Well... (Score:5, Funny)
Extraterrestrial military applications (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Energy (Score:5, Funny)
In a darkened room,
Re:In other news, (Score:2, Funny)
You better believe it..... (Score:5, Funny)
Yep, ran into three of them on the way to lunch this afternoon at the corner of Hargett and Fayetteville St.........
Oh! Ok, I'll check in the garage... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Incorrect (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, they solved that problem in the 50's. [bikiniatoll.com] It's controlling that reaction that is rather more difficult...
Good News, Bad News (Score:5, Funny)
Good News:
Piping hot coffee or soup in seconds.
Bad News:
Everything metal in kitchen becomes mildly radioactive from neutron bombardment.
Good News:
Rats, mice, cockroaches hate the sound of a sonofusor in operation, emptying cities of vermin.
Bad News:
Sound also drives dogs into a frenzy of mindless leg-humping. Except Boston Terriers, whose tightly sutured little skulls explode.
Good News:
Leads to development of ultra-efficient (but low thrust) rocket motor that uses water as a reaction mass.
Bad News:
All water outside of Mars orbit turn out to be owned by Capella OmniVolatile GMBH, who charge a heavy fee, payable in increasingly rare Boston Terriers.
Stefan Jones
Favorite line of the article (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'll believe it when... (Score:5, Funny)
Or maybe he meant "dining" - you know, joining together in a celebratory feast. I guess that would mean they already look good and don't have to worry about it?
It's possible he meant "dicing" - either chopping up meat for their dinner, or chopping up celery for their diet. Or maybe rolling a d20 (Save vs Poison or take 10d6 of damage from radiation.)
Hypothetically, the word could be "diving" but that would obviously be ridiculous.
Could be... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Energy (Score:5, Funny)
If you had meant us to read very large as industrial, why didn't you just write industrial?
Just curious (read: baffled (read: confused) by this common (read: prevelant on slashdot (read: idiot funhouse)) idiom (read (read: interpet and understand writing): little bit of stupidity (read: you)).
Re:Ball bearing gun (Score:1, Funny)
Think, McFly, think. (Score:4, Funny)
A FLUX capacitor.
DUH.
Re:Energy (Score:4, Funny)
Re:You better believe it..... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dangers? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Lots of potential (Score:3, Funny)
I can make bubbles in my bathtub, and the sound generated during that process is not very high frequency...
It even produces a little bit of heat!
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Science by press release (Score:1, Funny)
as accepted in January. The March issue in not
yet available. I'd like to make two points on
other posts:
1) E=mc^2 and c is very large!
(M(4H)-M(He))/M(4H)~0.007 so there is not much
worry that Eout-Ein > 0 with a bit of effort.
2) Low energy nuclear reactions (cold fusion) are
being taken quite seriously these days including
interesting trasmutation experiments performed in Japan.
Finally, THIS IS VREY GOOD NEWS!!! I'm sick of
our people getting killed in Iraq for oil. Thanks
Oak Ridge!