Tokamak fusion reactors rely on heated plasma that is extremely densely packed inside a doughnut-shaped chamber. But researchers thought that plasma could not exceed a certain density - a boundary called the Greenwald limit - without becoming unstable. In a new study, scientists pushed beyond this limit to achieve densities 30% to 65% higher than those normally reached by EAST while keeping the plasma stable.
We are not advocates of executing people in cruel and unusual ways here on Futurism, but we have to admit we are intrigued by this astronomer's proposal of launching bad people into the Sun. Of course, as the associate professor of astronomy at Monash University Michael JI Brown explains: the concept "sounds easy enough," but "may be harder than you think." And the reasons why are fascinating - at least from a perspective of physics, rather than criminal justice.
On Nov. 15,1969, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration in Washington against the Vietnam War. Also on this date: In 1777, the Second Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation. In 1806, explorer Zebulon Pike sighted the mountain now known as Pikes Peak in present-day Colorado. In 1864, late in the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh (teh-KUM'-seh) Sherman began their March to the Sea from Atlanta;
From the daring and dashing Captain Kirk on "Star Trek," to a no-nonsense police sergeant on "T.J. Hooker," to his Emmy-winning turn as the eccentric lawyer Denny Crane on "Boston Legal," William Shatner has been a Hollywood icon for decades.
