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Freshman's nuclear fusion reactor has USU physics faculty in awe
deseretnews.com ^
| 9-16-03
| Alan Edwards
Posted on 09/17/2003 8:18:21 PM PDT by wafflehouse
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To: Rennes Templar
Perfectionment??????
To: RightWingAtheist
many boys who also have scientific aspirations will feel cheated as they watch girls given headstarts and extra aid. Actually it should come as a relief to realize there are twice as many potential scientists and engineers on earth as was first thought.
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posted on
09/18/2003 1:02:52 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: Rose in RoseBear
They'll find a cure for cancer the same day they find a cure for wrinkles.
To: delapaz; Physicist
yeah my wife is always throwing out my spare neutron detectors without asking. I hate that.I bought a small neutron detector that counts both fast and slow neutrons at a surplus store. It first converts them to alpha and then uses a conventional alpha scintillometer. :-)
To: Paul Atreides; mhking; All
"what won first place??
Probably, something celebrating multiculturalism."
LOL! That or some performance art involving chocolate, urine, genitalia and crucifixes. :)
To: Rose in RoseBear
ok that is pretty cool.. much better than it sounded at first
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posted on
09/18/2003 11:49:47 PM PDT
by
wafflehouse
(the hell you say!)
To: chimera
true, but they could have gotten the number wrong in the article..
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posted on
09/19/2003 12:05:38 AM PDT
by
wafflehouse
(the hell you say!)
To: wafflehouse
SECOND PLACE?? what won first place??First place went to a punch-card voteing machine called a vote-o-matic.
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posted on
09/19/2003 12:17:11 AM PDT
by
fella
To: wafflehouse
Yes, there were a few misstatements in the article. Still, I'll give the kid a lot of credit for effort, creativity, and learning experience. These are the kind of students I try to encourage to consider science as a career, when I talk to them at science fairs and the like. Trouble is, when they get older and see how some very capable and talented people trained in the hard sciences end up on the economic ladder, its hard to convince them not to switch to business programs or pre-law.
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posted on
09/19/2003 6:29:55 AM PDT
by
chimera
To: Sooner78; coloradan; hopespringseternal; TheAngryClam; Pan_Yans Wife
The title and the first few paragraphs tend to imply that the kid invented this thing from scratch. He didn't, he built something that has been around for awhile. The most amazing thing is that he did it on the cheap from stuff that he found in junk yards and thrift stores. I'm not trying to take away anything from the kid, what he did was pretty cool.
I wonder how much money Los Alamos and NASA spent on their apparatuses (apparati?)
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I wonder how much money Los Alamos and NASA spent on their apparatuses (apparati?) Why don't you apply for a governmental grant? You could see what wonderful things you could make in your spare time? (I know you could do it!) :)
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posted on
09/19/2003 8:00:39 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yans Wife
("Life isn't fair. It's fairer than death, is all.")
To: wafflehouse
First place?
'My Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator! That creature has stolen the space modulator!'
To: RadioAstronomer; delapaz; Physicist
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posted on
09/24/2003 8:08:52 AM PDT
by
Cooter
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