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Teen Who Built Nuclear Reactor Disqualified from Science Fair
LiveScience ^ | 03 June 2013 | 04:06 PM ET | Douglas Main

Posted on 06/04/2013 4:09:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Conrad Farnsworth built a nuclear reactor in his dad’s garage. But when it came to making the International Science and Engineering Fair, there was a bit of a meltdown.

He was disqualified from attending because he entered into one too many science fairs in the wrong order, news reports say. …

Farnsworth is one of only 15 high-school students to ever achieve nuclear fusion, and the first person to do so in the state of Wyoming. …

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Education; Science
KEYWORDS: conradfarnsworth; hotfusion; possiblehoax; sciencefairs
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1 posted on 06/04/2013 4:09:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Rules exist to keep people down and prevent success.


2 posted on 06/04/2013 4:11:31 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Olog-hai

Is it legal to build your own nuclear device?


3 posted on 06/04/2013 4:12:52 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Olog-hai

From the article, it sounds like the director had somebody else in mind to go to the world’s science fair.


4 posted on 06/04/2013 4:13:31 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Olog-hai

Thermonuclear hydrogen bomb atomic FUSION? Color me skeptical. May have to read the article.....


5 posted on 06/04/2013 4:13:51 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (MOHAMMED WAS A CHILD RAPIST!)
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To: Olog-hai

Fusion? He just solved the world’s energy problems....


6 posted on 06/04/2013 4:14:42 PM PDT by freebilly
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To: Olog-hai

1. Yes, it really was fusion (not engineering breakeven or even scientific breakeven, but genuine fusion).

2. The kid violated the rules, and he deserved to be disqualified for that reason. The rules are inconvenient, but they were intended to prevent exactly what he did and it’s part of the game - even in science fairs.


7 posted on 06/04/2013 4:15:33 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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Fusion? He just solved the world’s energy problems....

Too late....It's already been done...

According to "Rossi".

http://ecat.com/

8 posted on 06/04/2013 4:18:29 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: Uncle Miltie

i read the article and still do not know why he was disqualified... entering too many fairs out of order? what does that mean? couldn’t the writer have given more detail about that?


9 posted on 06/04/2013 4:19:21 PM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Olog-hai

Mounted on the back of a DeLorean?


10 posted on 06/04/2013 4:23:38 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
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To: Cold Heat

I find Rossi to be trustworthy. /s


11 posted on 06/04/2013 4:24:25 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Yeah......LOL


12 posted on 06/04/2013 4:24:57 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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To: Olog-hai

In 1955 my husband’s entry in the local Science Fair was confiscated by the FBI before the fair ever opened.

They just walked in and gathered up the exhibit. My husband’s entry was a model of a nuclear submarine (non working) and he had built it under the supervision of his Chemistry teacher. Turns out the Chem teacher had worked on the Manhatten Project, and the FBI thought that my husband’s entry was “too realistic”.

I’m not sure how detailed this “model” was. I suspect that it was more detailed drawings than actual model.


13 posted on 06/04/2013 4:25:06 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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Farnsworth is one of only 15 high-school students to ever achieve nuclear fusion...

Made a little Helium out of Lithium, did he?

14 posted on 06/04/2013 4:26:23 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Pollster1

Nobody can figure out what those “rules” were, it seems. And the person who disqualified the teen is now out of a job.


15 posted on 06/04/2013 4:26:52 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: latina4dubya

It’s because the writer is a idiot and doesn’t understand. If you enter, let’s say, a district competition before your high school competes in districts you are disqualified.

In football terms, if you are anything but a freshman, you can’t play on the freshman team. If you are on the JV team you can only play so many minutes in a varsity game in order to keep your JV status. We run into that problem when we have a stud 10th grader - once he reaches so many minutes in a varsity game/season, he can’t go back and play at a lower level. Hope that helps.


16 posted on 06/04/2013 4:28:32 PM PDT by Cyclone59 (Obama is like Ron Burgundy - he will read ANYTHING that is on the teleprompter)
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okay, i get it now... thank for clarifying... so often i am finding news articles to be meer press releases... journalists today do no work at all, it seems...


17 posted on 06/04/2013 4:35:30 PM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“In 1955 my husband’s entry in the local Science Fair was confiscated by the FBI before the fair ever opened....”

Thank God that was in 1955. If that had happened today your husband, his teacher, and everyone else at the school would have been subjected to a full-on military raid by the FBI’s HRT (Hostage Roasting Team) and burned to death. Any survivors would have been sent to Gitmo labeled as ‘terrorists’.

Afterwards an FBI spokesman would tell the media how all those who died were racists and members of a dangerous cult.

Oh, and some school administrator would expell your husband from school because he built a model submarine and real submarines have real sailors on board who have real guns.

Zero tolerance, don’t you know.


18 posted on 06/04/2013 4:51:33 PM PDT by MeganC (You can take my gun when you can grab it with your cold, dead fingers.)
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To: Cold Heat

Careful, Kevmo is going to tag you an anti science luddite and lurker! But what the hay join the club, apparently I am one too!


19 posted on 06/04/2013 4:59:18 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Olog-hai

I’ve read the rules and kept my own kids out of extra science fairs to maintain eligibility. They are intricate, but it’s possible to figure them out.


20 posted on 06/04/2013 5:18:21 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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