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Originally posted by King_Mack maaan you should see some of the stuff that the US Military is coming up with.

I saw DARPA in the news again today. click. Apparently, they've also got their fingers into fusion these days. Do you remember the movie "Chain Reaction" with Keanu Reeves? In the movie, they were working on a type of fusion called sonoluminescence that the national nuclear labs have been toying with for a while. Apparently, they have no proof of fusion yet, but parts of the design are operating as they would if there were fusion occurring.

Imagine, clean, unlimited energy from cartridges of water or basic solvent. It would be the perfect source of energy to make laser guns for our new soldiers in biometric suits! The future is too cool...

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Originally posted by imokruok I saw DARPA in the news again today. click. Apparently, they've also got their fingers into fusion these days. Do you remember the movie "Chain Reaction" with Keanu Reeves? In the movie, they were working on a type of fusion called sonoluminescence that the national nuclear labs have been toying with for a while. Apparently, they have no proof of fusion yet, but parts of the design are operating as they would if there were fusion occurring. Imagine, clean, unlimited energy from cartridges of water or basic solvent. It would be the perfect source of energy to make laser guns for our new soldiers in biometric suits! The future is too cool...

Fusion research hardly originated with DARPA. Funny, when I read your sentence, "Imagine, clean, unlimited energy..." the rest would logically have been, "to power our 21st century way of life, and reduce pollution caused by conventional fossil fuel energy methods."

There is nothing cool about unlimited energy sources for lasers: saying that is just videogame mentality, and this is real life. Unlimited lasers are just horrible.

Back to fusion. Fusion research has been going on for decades, and stable reactions are commonplace. The whole point of fusion research today is to reach commercial breakthrough, for widespread use. I can't wait for that day!

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This guy would be better off exercising and developing those scrawny arms. Then he wouldn't even need that uber-expensive mechanical monstrosity.

Though he's probably just one of the research folks, taking pride in his project.

I have to admit, this is really cool. If only it wasn't designed for the facilitation of killing people!

EDIT: does this remind anyone else of the robot walkers of Zion in the 3rd Matrix movie?

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Originally posted by Alccode Fusion research hardly originated with DARPA.

Hmm...I don't think I said that. If I did, it's not what I meant. (At my own university, they've been running their own Tokamak for quite some time.) DARPA just happens to be involved with this sonoluminescence stuff.

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There is nothing cool about unlimited energy sources for lasers: saying that is just videogame mentality, and this is real life. Unlimited lasers are just horrible.

I was just trying to relate the news to the thread. You know, terminators, laser guns, etc. Although, it's really not much different than "unlimited bullets." Even troops that have thousands of rounds of .50 cal stored in their jeep don't machine gun indiscriminately.

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The whole point of fusion research today is to reach commercial breakthrough, for widespread use. I can't wait for that day!

Ditto on that! My laptop batteries suck.

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At this rate it's doubtful I'll be seeing terminators in my lifetime

Goddamned DARPA with its slow-ass government engineers. When can we privatise it and call it skynet already???

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