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Comment · 2 years ago
I'm a physics layman, and I'm having some trouble with uniting the content of your comment with the fact that existing magnetic confinement experiments have reported maintaining a plasma at the right temperature for longer times (not with fusion, but with microwave heating, and with the power of those heaters in the 10MW range).

Have I understood the consequences of those reports wrong? Does the heat loss you talk about only occur with fusion? (And if so, is it even a problem if the conditions for fusion to occur can be created by external heating this "easily"?)

Comment · 2 years ago
I'll assume the inlet is below water level / at the bottom of the tank…
Comment · 2 years ago
I suppose assthetics is in the eye of the beeholder?
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Comment · 2 years ago
Guess my IoT devices will have to learn how to watch videos.
Comment · 2 years ago
> Who says we need to fill it up in a reasonable time frame?

So you yourself are saying anything longer than a month is unreasonable?

In any case, this lab experiment will need much improvement in speed and energy requirements.

Comment · 2 years ago
At 75 MB/s, this thing takes 30 days to fill. How much slower would you like?
Comment · 2 years ago
The hitch guide to the solar system
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My monitor doesn't have dcc. I've worked around that part by activating automatic input selection and xset dpms force off'ing on the device I want to switch away from.
Comment · 2 years ago
Can anyone compare this to https://radicle.xyz/? (Or am I wrong thinking they're similar? I've used neither.)

I suppose gitstr would have the benefit that you'd already have the public key of whatever person you'd want to send the patches to? Because you learned of the existence of their repos via nostr, or so?

Comment · 2 years ago
Good to know. In case Astrophage ever comes visiting us.
Comment · 2 years ago
I did mostly think that. So what's the thing in the glass that gets hit like the "another pool ball"?
Comment · 2 years ago
> 2023

> extern crate

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