The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: ABX on June 04, 2013, 11:13:28 pm
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Conrad Farnsworth built a nuclear reactor in his dad's garage. But when it came to making the International Science and Engineering Fair, there was a bit of a meltdown. He was disqualified from attending because he entered into one too many science fairs in the wrong order, news reports say.
His "crime" was reported to the international fair by the former director of the Wyoming State Science Fair; presumably he would have been able to attend the competition despite the breech of a small technicality, because it would have gone unnoticed, Wyoming's Casper Star-Tribune reported. The Wyoming fair's sponsor said the director acted out of her authority, and she has since not had her contract renewed.
Farnsworth is one of only 15 high-school students to ever achieve nuclear fusion, and the first person to do so in the state of Wyoming. "He made it using parts he ordered online, traded with other fusioneers and created himself," the Star-Tribune reported.
http://www.livescience.com/37104-teen-builds-nuclear-reactor-dq.html
Sounds like one of his competition looked for the technicality to get him out. That would be tough to compete with.
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Some of the articles on this say it is a fission reactor, not fusion. Big difference. The Fusion comment is probably from a dumb reporter repeating mistakes of other dumb reporters.
(http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/thumbnail/400/img/photos/2013/06/03/75/b0/383736538.jpg)
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Farnsworth is one of only 15 high-school students to ever achieve nuclear fusion
By golly, we need to get rid of the National Institutes of Science and go with the high schoolers! Not one single "adult" scientist has ever been able to achieve that!! :laugh:
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Some of the articles on this say it is a fission reactor, not fusion. Big difference. The Fusion comment is probably from a dumb reporter repeating mistakes of other dumb reporters.
(http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/thumbnail/400/img/photos/2013/06/03/75/b0/383736538.jpg)
Ahh. So they had the White House press pool covering this event.
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He built a nuclear reactor in his dad's garage and his name is Conrad Farnsworth? Doesn't that name somehow seem just so appropriate?
*snort*