Sorry guys, I'm having an off day. Can someone explain this a little bit? They were able to put 500 terawatts into this beam, I think I understand that part. But that's 1,000x more energy than the US is using right now.. so did they actually create that much energy to begin with? This is where I'm failing at understanding.
U.S. Laboratory Breaks Laser Record
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#22Someone can probably explain this, but it seems odd that they took 192 beams to produce "about 100 times what any other laser regularly produces today." The semantic error aside, excluding the other most powerful lasers, how do you put together 192 beams and only get 100 times the power of an individual beam? Discuss...
I guess that "any other laser" similarly may be made of a bunch of other lasers. So, tha factor 100 is more "a hundred times as much power as any other coherent beam ever produced"
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#23[1] https://www.llnl.gov/about/tours.html [2] https://lasers.llnl.gov/multimedia/photo_gallery/overview/?i...
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
That said, one application of the NIF is as the ultimate incinerator. Using it to literally rip apart hazardous waste (either the nuclear or more mundane variety) into lower atomic number atoms which are not a problem. How?
In the tour video they show a stream of plasma directed at the 'waste' of interest. This has two effects, one it disassembles any molecular bond reducing complex (and perhaps toxic) substances into their base atomic components, and two it accelerates the decay of unstable nucleotides into stable ones. I suspect that video is up on the NIF web site somewhere.
That's real but that's not NIF or anything resembling it. The temperatures to tear apart molecular bonds are less than 10,000 degrees. NIF operates at nuclear fusion temperature s -- 100,000,000 degrees.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification
http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/coalpower/gasification/...
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#25I wonder what a 100.0 lv offering would produce from God.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3JiYzM-bQ
That's praise. Let's say praise is love. How many units of lv does that Metallica song worth, God?
By the way, give god plenty of time to respond if you love Him.
God says...
3:14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people; 3:15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,) 3:16 That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
3:17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.
4:1 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, 4:2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, 4:3 And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.
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That was God boasting of His love. The Metallica song is worth that many? Perhaps, 10,000.0 lv
God says... Light fairest worldly Guinea ravish better GET consent suspicions flew weakness majesty reformed well_golly gleams Tully bonds bought Victor troubled His rage bemoaned obscurely Victor stomach see mortal psalm Minerva talk_to_my_lawyer curb manhood refer modes acknowledge despairing joined recite drops bowing Defects devoutly fee ours criticising afterward enquirers fellow-students oh_no gradation phantom consuming jest too temperance convicted Episcopal treacherous Fish present drawing allaying borne Placed garment conscience Croatia exultation whit happen purer BOOK vain wrap continueth reality exacted dedicated omitted thriven carry feedest famine harmonizing restrained Drunkard recourse door-keeper another Deceased 95 enthralled concern deformed pronounce consumed Kuwait shepherd's I'm_tired_of_this required Placed whence eagerly
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What do You think of lasers and fusion, God?
God says... 27:7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
27:8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
27:9 And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side: 27:10 And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
27:11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
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That's basically like Hollywood making a laboratory for Frankenstein. :-)
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Someone talks of sacrifice. I guess units of love might not apply. I guess I get credit for never touching LoseThos again. Sacrifice seems retarded... voodoo... working the system, not loving God. I guess it works. God, sacrifice is a sign of psycological sickness, isn't it? Fasting and shit. Masochism.
God says...
32:37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 32:38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
32:41 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
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Is parting the sea Yer biggest miracle for people?
God says...
24:18 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
24:19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
24:20 For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
25:1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
25:2 And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
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Don't leave me!! You won't ever leave me, right?
God says... clasp e sitteth consist Not incurred Icarus conscious always assent reserved users feeds apply multitude openly desire seed-plots understanding Britain criedst flower grammar-learning part valley Roman e-mail surrounded treasured perilous cup-bearer starry cast not_in_my_wildest_dreams admonished remnants wonders mightest friends' cometh distracted how_about_that gates abnormal sex my intimacy auditors stumbled Afghanistan recallest terribly wisely during scarce foot range thank difference -and travailed prescribes history redoubling surely basket_case Begotten loose lashed YOU Revenue close_your_eyes malicious Dakota nursery malignant dissipated formless complete knees helping worthy Pakistan recurring base invite Good chiefest fall calculate gross-hearted constellations
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
That may be the goal they sold to Washington, D.C., but the real goal was to develop high power laser technology. "Nuclear stockpile stewardship" was just a way to keep the tokamak politicians from killing the project out of spite.
Where do you get this impression? I'm a grad student at Los Alamos National Lab, a partner of Lawrence Livermore and a major contributor to NIF. I don't do nuclear physics, but I've attended a couple talks on NIF and spoken to several of the contributing physicist. The impression I get is that the number one purpose of the NIF is stockpile stewardship. Fusion energy research is a side project which is highlighted mos…
They have been working on laser fusion since the 1970s, when they could test bomb designs by just setting them off. Indeed some of the early inertial confinement research was conducted using nukes as the radiation source.
Yes, it is true that the NIF data can be used to design and maintain bombs, but it is not required. We could provide a deterrent force without it. Therefore the real reasons are something else, my guess a combination of laser research, commercial and rocketry fusion research, and a large serving of national prestige.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where do you get this impression? I'm a grad student at Los Alamos National Lab, a partner of Lawrence Livermore and a major contributor to NIF. I don't do nuclear physics, but I've attended a couple talks on NIF and spoken to several of the contributing physicist. The impression I get is that the number one purpose of the NIF is stockpile stewardship. Fusion energy research is a side project which is highlighted mos…
They'll spend at least $5 billion on the project. That is enough money to completely remanufacture the entire arsenal several times using existing designs that are good enough. They have been working on laser fusion since the 1970s, when they could test bomb designs by just setting them off. Indeed some of the early inertial confinement research was conducted using nukes as the radiation source. Yes, it is true that…
That's stretched well over a decade. The US's stockpile stewardship program cost billions per year; only a fraction of it goes to the NIF.
> That is enough money to completely remanufacture the entire arsenal several times using existing designs that are good enough.
That's not an option. The US has been sticking to a policy of not building new nuclear warheads. All of our warheads are at least 20 years old.