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Jan 04, 2009

A Star Is Born, At Livermore Labs

Or will be, next year, when the world's largest laser turns on. After that spooky hexagon at Saturn's North Pole --

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-- turned out not to be an infant second sun, Livermore Labs got fed up. Hey -- we're not waiting for 2010 for our odyssey; we're going to create our own sun, right here, on earth, in cozy Northern California. How do you create your own star? Just fire up the National Ignition Facility:

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What does the ominously named/looking scientific instrument/doomsday machine do exactly (besides either saving the world -- or destroying it)? Here's the director, Ed Moses:

"We are creating the conditions that exist inside the sun," said Ed Moses, director of the facility. "It is like tapping into the real solar energy as fusion is the source of all energy in the world. It is really exciting physics, but beyond that there are huge social, economic and global problems that it can help to solve."

There doesn't seem to be the same loopy luddite jeremiad broadside against the NIF as there was with RHIC at Brookhaven and the Large Hadron Collider last year. I guess if you're inclined to be worried about the big lights out, it's better to go inside a new star than an accidental black hole. Flip the switch!

Jan 04, 2009 in Dude, no way, Science |

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