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Z Machine sets new temperature record (2 billion Kelvin)
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That's with a b, guys. That's about 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit.
This was a while ago, but I forgot to post about it. Here's a pretty big, but awesome, image of the Z-Machine at work at the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This puppy took in 20 million amps of power and created super heated plasma. At 2 billion Kelvin, that's hotter than the interior of our sun! 
It's science! 
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060313.html
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
That's with a b, guys. That's about 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit.
This was a while ago, but I forgot to post about it. Here's a pretty big, but awesome, image of the Z-Machine at work at the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This puppy took in 20 million amps of power and created super heated plasma. At 2 billion Kelvin, that's hotter than the interior of our sun!
It's science!
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060313.html
I remember when this was posted back in March. Back then I thought it would be neat to toss an handful of pennies inside that assembly and I still think that now. Can you imagine what would happen when a bunch of pennies get tossed into a crazy plasma like that? Prolly lots of bad stuff with cool lighting effects.
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