0111narwhalz

Banned for banning us for your problems.

Anyone remember the old Minecraft trick where you put your door on backwards so that it's "closed" when it's open and it's "open" when it's closed? I guess it works on moderators just as well as it did on zombies.

I'm told that the NIF got more heat out than direct laser energy in, on at least one occaision, but the result is somewhat dubious, and in any case they didn't account for the inefficiencies of the laser. Still, fairly interesting result out of inertial confinement. This is not surprising, considering that it'll take at least that long just to build the next reactor after ITER. As I understand it, stellarators could well provide the answer before tokomaks. Their growth has been stunted, on account of the complexity of the physical models and geometry and their comparative lack of symmetry, but our computronium has improved substantially. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this. There's the diverter, but that only covers a small part of the surface, and as far as I've seen it's not causing any theoretical trouble at all. JET tested all-tungsten diverters, with positive results, and the industry standard is carbon-carbon, cooled if possible. Then there's the vessel walls themselves, which are definitely not problematic—it's pretty much just stainless steel, and in any case they don't contact the plasma during normal operation. I guess you could be talking about the confinement fields themselves? Those are causing problems, and always have, but they're the very problems ITER itself aims to solve.

*will get

On floor 5020, every verb was in the past tense. You realized that you did not belong there, or at least not anymore, and rushed on to whern you thought the present was.

Because it's not on Saturn's pole. How many Roombas would you need to find ³He on Luna?

Granted. No more of that nasty oxygen. I wish for universally understood definitions of every word.

Banned for thinking Kerbin could contain my sorting pit.

Eh, the components will come together eventually.

ITER is supposed to break net positive, and then some, starting 2025. We're probably only a couple of reactor generations from leaving "research" and going to "commercial proof of concept," at least for tokomaks. Stellarators have been sadly neglected until Wendelstein 7-X, but that reactor is breaking records left and right. Laser inertial confinement is also looking pretty good. It's always been "an exciting time" in fusion research, but right now it might actually be exciting. And who knows what's going on with polywells.

Only one, if you choose correctly. What is the status on the development of the taco printer?

Banned for not realizing that it's ternary. Balanced ternary.

Banned for expecting anyone to expect the Spanish Inquisition. They cannot be expected, by definition.

Hypothetically, you could skin the K'nex one with paper or cellophane or something, and paint it to color.

You have been banned for improper grammar.

Banned for addressing a user who is not the user immediately above you.

What if the future does exist, as a whole possibility tree, but it gets pruned by events getting "set" in the present?

Banned for containing a question in a spoiler.

Banned for falling for another of kerbiloid's traps.

Granted, but there's only a little of it. I wish for a fancy potato.

I don't know what that is, but I'll try to break it down: "Arnold Palmer" is some guy, I assume, so I'm just going to treat that as a non sequiter and move on. Half & half is cream. Arizona, when not a state, is iced tea, I think? Now, I don't like cream or iced tea, and I can't imagine that putting the two together could make anything better. I will therefore conclude that, unless this Arnold guy can make everything better, I would probably not like that. TUBM has engaged in Project Euler.

Banned for seeing a wolf when there is none.

Banned for the lack of space between "Real" and "Kerbal"—this is a space game foum, after all.

Granted. You can update a mod anytime you want. Whether the "update" is different from the previous version you downloaded is up to the author. The power to engage anyone with scathing wit at any time.

He figured out how to change his font.