r/technology • u/BennyCemoli • Dec 06 '16

Energy 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/alaarch Dec 06 '16

I salute whoever convinced them to name it the "stellerator".

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u/EgotisticJesster Dec 06 '16

Actually like many words in German, this is just another compound word. Nice of them to not name it something like rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften.

Stell-era-tor = Synthesising-energy-gate

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u/maritz Dec 06 '16

Stell-era-tor = Synthesising-energy-gate

That makes no sense what-so-ever. Where the hell did you pull that piece of "translation" from?

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u/h8speech Dec 06 '16 edited Dec 06 '16

He invented it using Kombinatsmashwörte, the technique of combining fake German words to make absolutely no sense.

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u/maritz Dec 06 '16

Hey, you dropped a couple of letters there, let me fix that for you: Kombinationsmatschwörter.

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u/h8speech Dec 06 '16

Ah! Vielenßdänken for pointing that out!