xkcd #3313: Fusion Device : xkcd@lemmy.world

xkcd #3313: Fusion Device (thelemmy.club)

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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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I don't see why people have trouble doing this at room temperature. Using hot rivets would honestly have been MORE work.

[–] nfms@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Can someone explain this one?

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 68 points 1 week ago*

Phillips head = protons
Flat-head = electrons
Rivets = neutrons

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 66 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] crowcore_explorer@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago*

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

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