#3520536 - 02/17/12 01:22 PM
The boy who played with fusion
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Chucky
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Any of you heard of this guy? Just amazing. I loved this bit One afternoon, Tiffany ducked her head out of the door to the garage and spotted Taylor, in his canary yellow nuclear-technician’s coveralls, watching a pool of liquid spreading across the concrete floor. “Tay, it’s time for supper.”
“I think I’m going to have to clean this up first.”
“That’s not the stuff you said would kill us if it broke open, is it?”
“I don’t think so,” he said. “Not instantly.”
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#3520587 - 02/17/12 02:03 PM
Re: The boy who played with fusion
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Super Villain in the making. He'll be holding the world to ransom in 5 years time you mark my words!
....or he'll just get a really good job as a scientist...one of the 2 anyway.
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#3520725 - 02/17/12 04:49 PM
Re: The boy who played with fusion
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letterboy1
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Super Villain in the making. He'll be holding the world to ransom in 5 years time you mark my words!
He will demand ( places little finger to corner of mouth) . . . a MILLION DOLLARS!
The issue is not p*ssy. The issue is monkey.
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#3520727 - 02/17/12 04:49 PM
Re: The boy who played with fusion
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letterboy1
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Seriously, that was an excellent article!
The issue is not p*ssy. The issue is monkey.
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#3520730 - 02/17/12 04:54 PM
Re: The boy who played with fusion
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Super Villain in the making. He'll be holding the world to ransom in 5 years time you mark my words!
He will demand ( places little finger to corner of mouth) . . . a MILLION DOLLARS! Don't you think he should ask for *more* than a million dollars? A million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days. Virtucon alone makes over 9 billion dollars a year!
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#3520783 - 02/17/12 05:46 PM
Re: The boy who played with fusion
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Yes, during grad school I worked at ITER doing summer internships and we received a letter from this boy's father asking for technical specs about a specific laser system. He said it was for his (then) eleven year old son, and that whatever he didnt understand from the specs, he could figure out (!!!). Go figure, some kids spend their entire adolescence playing with their Xbox 360s while this kid builds a fusion reactor.
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If you can defeat me in a fair same altitude duel, you are either Hartmann's ghost or you have a ganja problem that needs treatment.
Like asking weird questions and are good at math? Maybe you can join us at the Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego. Tackling the grand mysteries of the age with science.
At the core of most of life's deep mysteries, is the language that Mother Nature truly speaks in, ..... mathematics.
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#3520791 - 02/17/12 05:59 PM
Re: The boy who played with fusion
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Chucky
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Wow WhistlinggDeath,that's cool to know!
Can you just give out specs like that to Joe public?
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#3520797 - 02/17/12 06:05 PM
Re: The boy who played with fusion
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Don't give them to Chucky, WhistlinggDeath! He has a white, fluffy cat and a bald head!
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#3520892 - 02/17/12 07:46 PM
Re: The boy who played with fusion
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WhistlinggDeath
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I dont know what became of his request or whether our section head released any data to the boy's father. At the time, I was only a lowly grad student, taking orders and kissing azzes. I can say, we were all a bit surprised and like you, we wondered whether the boy was really a 190 IQ wonderbomb or a faker asking for information to pass to others.
If you can defeat me in a fair same altitude duel, you are either Hartmann's ghost or you have a ganja problem that needs treatment.
Like asking weird questions and are good at math? Maybe you can join us at the Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego. Tackling the grand mysteries of the age with science.
At the core of most of life's deep mysteries, is the language that Mother Nature truly speaks in, ..... mathematics.
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#3520959 - 02/17/12 08:52 PM
Re: The boy who played with fusion
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How do you think the Phillipines got delivery service from McDonalds.
Life is tough. Life is tougher when you are stupid. - John Wayne
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Exodus
by RedOneAlpha. 04/18/24 05:46 PM
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