Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration

Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du... by number6 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @02:49PM (#43094174)

WEST beat EAST... what a bunch of nerds :)

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Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du... by hangonhn on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @04:02PM (#43095088)

Come on Scandinavia, throw in your hat with NORTH!

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Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du... by temp0826 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @04:46PM (#43095523)

WEST side is the BEST side

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Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du... by bmicraft on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @10:42PM (#43098321)

They've got the best-side story, or something

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Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du... by HPsquared on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:03PM (#43094332)

Next milestone is 69 minutes. No, not 60.

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Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du... by Tagbert on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:32PM (#43094694)

First they need to achieve 42 minutes sustained

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Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du... by sroussey on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @04:20PM (#43095259)

Full 420 minutes.

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Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du... by muscomposter on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:38PM (#43094778)

but 69 is lame because it merely is 3*13

I don’t care about sex jokes. 42 (or 72) OTOH are cool because both are surrounded by twin primes!!! how cool is that? (semiprime coolness is significantly smaller than twin prime coolness)

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Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du... by wussboy on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:46PM (#43094869)

I think you’re doing it wrong

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Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du... by kbelder on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @06:27PM (#43096465)

Whatever you say, Ramanujan.

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Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du... by affenape on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @04:46PM (#43095529)

Would be really NICE.

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Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du... by muscomposter on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @03:37PM (#43094761)

this just gets my conspiracy nutjob of a mind flying.

how about the NORTH versus SOUTH team contests? ugh

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Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du... by dgan on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @02:49PM (#43094162)

Erm. Why?

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Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du... by leca on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @02:50PM (#43094194)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

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Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du... by magicalhippo on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @04:10PM (#43095167)

Classic MegaTokyo strip[1] for illustration purposes.

[1]: https://megatokyo.com/strip/9

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Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du... by panzagl on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @06:04PM (#43096264)

t00 l4m3 4 U

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Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du... by akkad33 on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @02:49PM (#43094170)

Why

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Re:Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma du... by leca on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @02:50PM (#43094191)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

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