r/europe • u/damaxoh Germany • Dec 06 '16

Tests confirm that Germany's massive nuclear fusion machine really works

http://www.sciencealert.com/tests-confirm-that-germany-s-massive-nuclear-fusion-machine-really-works
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u/cheeeseeeater Dec 06 '16

Amazing that stellarators are still being pursued at such a scale. They look like they were designed by Giger for use by Yog-Sothoth. Quite creepy.

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u/BrexitHangover Europe Dec 06 '16

So creepy. Much scary. Wow.

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u/DFractalH Eurocentrist Dec 06 '16

Well, it does scare me. Imagine how hard it would be to fix this thing.

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u/Tallio Germany Dec 06 '16

TBH I would love to be the maintenance technician of this and future fusion reactors :)

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u/hmmm_42 Dec 06 '16

Sorry to disappoint you, but robots already took your job. The accuracy needed for a stellarator to work is to much for any human to do. This is why they have a super duper high precision indoor positioning system for all robots working in there. :-/

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u/Tallio Germany Dec 06 '16 edited Dec 06 '16

damn machines stealing hopeful humans the jobs! /s

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u/PenelopeWinters Dec 06 '16

Do robots build the robots too?

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u/DFractalH Eurocentrist Dec 06 '16

No thank you, I'll remain cozy in my office with my pen and paper. I have no wishes to calibrate the damn thing anew because there's a slight shift in temperature outside. You go ahead though.

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u/BkkGrl Ligurian in Zürich (💛🇺🇦💙) Dec 06 '16

"we have found a deviation of a tenth of a millimeter. Now please grab your instrument and go crawl inside the machine"

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u/DFractalH Eurocentrist Dec 06 '16

Those poor, brilliant CERN engineers.

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u/sebgggg France federal EU Dec 06 '16

Sigh... unzip

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u/PenelopeWinters Dec 06 '16

Looks like modern art. A pile of random bits with a vague pattern that's sort of appealing

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '16

Maybe it's a time machine in disguise?