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A comment on Tencent-Backed UK Startup First Light Achieves Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough.

Re:Tencent-Backed UK Startup First Light Achieves Nuclear Fu... by rkachowski on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @04:54AM (#30916732)
> First Light used a hypervelocity gun, which engineers call their “Big Friendly Gun,” to fire a projectile at 6.5 kilometers (4 miles) a second into a fuel target to generate energy

I would love to be the scientist deadpan explaining to a reporter that BFG is short for Big Friendly Gun, and anything else is just a coincidence.

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFG_(weapon) )

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Re:Tencent-Backed UK Startup First Light Achieves Nuclear Fu... by nicoburns on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @06:05AM (#30917140)
Hah, that's not the association I have with that acronym:

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_BFG)

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Re:Tencent-Backed UK Startup First Light Achieves Nuclear Fu... by TrispusAttucks on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @06:54AM (#30917429)
As long as the nerds know the truth ;)
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