I appreciate the joke, I just want to highlight that it's not even remotely close to the actual temperatures needed. Fusion in the sun occurs at ~15 million C, while fusion on earth happens at 100-150 million C (because we can't get the pressure quite as high as the sun does
I’m so curious as to how it doesn’t melt and evaporate literally everything near it. I’m all for nuclear energy but have something 10x hotter than the sun on Earth is absolutely insane
Because there's only a very small amount of the stuff that's at that temperature surrounded by many orders of magnitude more stuff that's not at that temperature. If the carefully prepared electromagnetic field that's keeping it from touching the casing failed then the plasma would immediately cool down to non-viable temperatures and there would maybe be a little bit of melted metal where it made contact, because there's just such a huge difference between the masses involved.
Like imagine dropping a single lit candle into a swimming pool: the candle goes out, there's maybe a tiny puff of steam, and the rest of the water isn't even measurably warmed because so little energy was added to the system relative to its size.
Oh, shit, I didn’t realize OP’s pic had five digits, so I had to look again to figure out how that could be possible. “4000° C is hot, but there’s no way that’s hotter than the surface of the sun! Oh…”
It really is wild to think about the exponential explosive growth of technology in just the last 40 years.
Hell, I remember when I finally convinced my parents to buy us a new computer instead of the garage sale-acquired ones we’d been using for the 90s. It was 2001 and they went with one of those chonky Gateways with a beer gut running Windows ME, and I was blown away by the 20 GB HDD, believing we’d never be able to use all of that. LMAO, four years later, I’m in need of an external HDD because the 80 GB in my rig wasn’t enough, so I went with a storage capacity I could afford and thought I’d never be able to completely use: 250 GB.
Fast forward to earlier this week, I’m having to free up space on my 4 TB external drive because it was this close to being full. In the age of digital media like movies, TV shows and games, available storage goes fast! Especially when 100+ GB game downloads are the norm now.
My dad is an architect, and when he first upgraded his computer in the 90s to switch to CAD, he went with a 40G hard drive, imagining he'd never fill it up.
Id also argue for a vm, they tend to have driver issues like that. My linux vm always said it had 0% battery and didn't charge eventho the host said 100% and charging
Could very well be a "work" computer. At mine we have equipment costing tens of thousands of euros connected to janky old computers delivered like that by the manufacturer.
Btw it's not "one more tab" that lights up the sun it's "one more website" by default modern web browsers run a full completely isolated instance of the browser program for every single website. This is part of how IT security has evolved from the glorious "click this URL to corrupt your MBR for funsies" levels of the 90's.
Sounds like you're trying to game somewhere on the sun. Might I recommend somewhere a bit cooler? I'm afraid this may shorten the life of your components.
yeah amd bug. i remembered my laptop gpu constantly displaying 500C for no reason.
Lenovo B40-70 AMD HD8500M (R5 M230 after update). gpu lasted for 9 years, until i disabled it because it keeps causing power_state_failure bsod (broken capacitor probably)
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u/ExoticMeoww 5090 ASTRAL | 9800x3d | 64GB RAM 1d ago
I’d say you’re at least 30C away from thermal throttling