The Throbbing X-Ray Hive-Mind of New Mexico
Posted by John Brownlee
Amongst typical flotsam digg-bait posts, deputy dog has posted a list of five “unbelievably cool research facilities.” None of these research facilities are dedicated to slapping Hitler’s brain into a titanium juggernaut body, so that post title’s a bit of a cock tease. That said, I love this image of the z machine at the Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico. It is called the Z Machine despite clearly being the largest X-Ray machine on Earth. It has produced plasma hotter than the core of our sun. But none of that science matters to me: I just love to think that deep in the bowels of the Earth exists a throbbing, electrified hive-mind of interconnected X-Ray synapses.
5 Unbelievably Cool Research Facilities [Deputy Dog]
Categories: Hive-mind, X-Ray, Science, Technology
Posted at 12:16 pm on January 7, 2008
4 Comments -
I feel like someone should be cackling “No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!” right now.
Comment by kimi — January 7, 2008 @ 3:46 pm
leave Bond to me!
Comment by zanbowser — January 10, 2008 @ 6:51 am
It is nice to see real science at work plumbing the depths of the universe. Though some of these high powered experiments I wish they would conduct in earth orbit or better yet on the moon. Just in case there is some kind of cascade/runaway effect is accidentally started. Indeed the creation of a plasma reation is something that the fusion research projet has been working on for 50 years. The problem is in sustaining and containing the reaction. Look to our sun for an example. Remember the problem Dr. Octopus had with his fusion generator?
Comment by Nightgaunt — February 5, 2008 @ 3:18 pm
Now if they could just place some of these more dangerous research facilities on the moon. Wow! High energy plasma,the fifth elemental state!
Comment by Nightgaunt — February 5, 2008 @ 3:20 pm