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A comment on 12-Year-Old Claims to Have Achieved Nuclear Fusion at Home (2018). Parent comment

Re:12-Year-Old Claims to Have Achieved Nuclear Fusion at Hom... by mhb on Friday February 22, 2019 @09:12PM (#19231143)
Jackson’s father, Chris Oswalt, had no real understanding of what his son was working on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19211810

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Re:12-Year-Old Claims to Have Achieved Nuclear Fusion at Hom... by ethagknight on Saturday February 23, 2019 @08:11AM (#19233186)
And his mother is a CPA working for local Memphis government. When asked about Jackson’s achievements, she just shrugs and laughs. I don’t think this is a case of the ol’ “kid’s science project” for him by his parents.
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