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I don't see why people have trouble doing this at room temperature. Using hot rivets would honestly have been MORE work.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3313/
based on my understanding, they created a 3-d model out of a 2-d model and claimed they had built the thing (fusion reactor?) being modeled.
e: fixed a word