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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/
The duo mistook a visual representation of how fusion works for a diagram of an actual machine, so they "built" it by putting screws on a block, making the block look like the diagram