Doctor who,Sherlock and Harry Potter are my main fandoms, although you can also find The Hunger Games,Disney and basically everything that tickles my fancy. 17.Spain
hi everyone! it’s been a while since i made a huge playlist masterpost, but i thought that right now when we’re all stuck inside wondering what to do with our time i would make a list of all my playlists. listening to music is so calming and definitely helps me pass the time…so enjoy! - cam
ok seeing some people not sure what this means so to summarize it:
hypothetically speaking, if we could produce nuclear fusion on a commercial scale it would provide us with totally clean and practically unlimited energy. no radiation, no pollution, just energy. fusion is actually the process that powers the sun itself, so scientists have been attempting to recreate fusion for decades because it’s essentially the ‘holy grail’ of clean energy sources.
up until now, while we’ve technically been able to recreate fusion, it has always taken more energy to actually make fusion occur compared to the energy the reaction puts out. but now we’ve finally had a reaction happen where it produced more energy than it cost. meaning that nuclear fusion is going to be seen as a fully viable and possible energy resource, so more funding will be put into it to try and improve the process. we’re still decades away from potentially using it as an energy source, but this is a HUGE step towards unlimited energy with no environmental repercussions
Ok but how long until the military wants to weaponize it?
Two answers:
1. The first fusion bomb was tested in 1952. We’ve had this technology for 70 years. Hydrogen bombs, thermonuclear bombs, they have many names but they’re all fusion-based.
2. This fusion research came out of the National Ignition Facility. They’re doing research on fusion energy, yes, but that’s not the whole story. A major part of why they exist is what they call “stockpile stewardship”. See, they are able to do experiments similar to what happens when a thermonuclear device initiates. And the US has a LOT of aging hydrogen bombs. There’s a big worry that we don’t know, actually, if they’ll still work. We’ve never tried to set off a 30 year old warhead. No one has. They might fizzle or have a lowered yield.
But the various test ban treaties mean the US isn’t allowed to test any of them. Not underwater, underground, above ground, or in space. So the only way to figure out if old warheads will actually go off is to do experiments that let us simulate the effects of a thermonuclear reaction, just not at the scale where it would violate the treaty.
Two obvious questions you might have:
1. Can’t they just do simulations on a supercomputer?
2. If they’re so worried about the reliability of old warheads, why not just make new ones?
And the answer to both is “they’re doing that too”.
But they worry the simulations may not be accurate enough to know for sure. And as for making new ones, that’s run into a bunch of problems because all this shit is so top secret that they destroyed most of the documentation for how they were made, and the remaining documentation turns out in some cases to be wrong. Plus, without testing a new warhead, they don’t know if they’ll work. So they’ll still need the National Ignition Facility to do that kind of test.
fucking hate it when the stuff everybody says “actually works” does actually work.
hate exercising and realizing i’ve let go of a lot of anxiety and anger because i’ve overturned my fight-or-flight response.
hate eating right and eating enough and eating 3 times a day and realizing i’m less anxious and i have more energy
hate journaling in my stupid notebook with my stupid bic ballpoint and realizing that i’ve actually started healing about something once i’m able to externalize it
hate forgiving myself hate complimenting myself more often hate treating myself with kindness hate taking a gratitude inventory hate having patience hate talking to myself gently
hate turning my little face up to the sun and taking deep breaths and looking at nature and grounding myself and realizing that i feel less burdened and more hopeful, more actually-here, that i am able to see the good sides of myself more clearly, that i am able to see not only how far i have to grow - but also how much growth i have already done & how much of my life i truly fill with light and laughter and love
horrible horrible horrible. hate it but i’m gonna do it tho
