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	World's largest laser
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5-31-2009 4:17 PM
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laser, physics, high energy, nuclear fusion
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d5620175-f586-45ed-bb77-2f93b5a98310/700A8733-2055-47BA-B3D0-79735ABCBE1B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-05-30-voa19.cfm" href="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-05-30-voa19.cfm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.voanews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-05-30-voa19.cfm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.voanews.com/img/A3F62FDD-441D-407D-BEB1-DF50EBF73C12" alt="VOANews.com" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-05-30-voa19.cfm"><SPAN class="articleheadline">New Super Laser Burns Like the Sun</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-05-30-voa19.cfm">The world's strongest laser - powerful enough to create conditions as hot as inside the Sun - was unveiled Friday in the western U.S. state of California for an audience of politicians and scientists.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/livermore-laboratory-shows-off-worlds-biggest-laser-gun-pic.html" href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/livermore-laboratory-shows-off-worlds-biggest-laser-gun-pic.html" style="font-size: 11px;">latimesblogs.latimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/livermore-laboratory-shows-off-worlds-biggest-laser-gun-pic.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/latimesblogs.latimes.com/img/4E17673B-C787-4152-B1DF-ABC464054F52" alt="Los Angeles Times" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/livermore-laboratory-shows-off-worlds-biggest-laser-gun-pic.html"><H1 class="entry-header"><A title="Livermore Laboratory shows off world's biggest laser gun [PIC]" rel="bookmark" href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/livermore-laboratory-shows-off-worlds-biggest-laser-gun-pic.html">Livermore Laboratory shows off world's biggest laser gun [PIC]</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/livermore-laboratory-shows-off-worlds-biggest-laser-gun-pic.html"><P>When the system goes online in two to three years, the nearly 200 lasers will focus all their power inward at a tiny 2-millimeter ball of frozen hydrogen gas, zapping it with 60 times more energy than any laser system that's come before. How much juice is that? Try 2 million joules.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/livermore-laboratory-shows-off-worlds-biggest-laser-gun-pic.html"><P>"It's never been done before under controlled conditions," wrote the lab's Bob Hirschfeld in an e-mail.  "Just in nuclear weapons and in stars."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/livermore-laboratory-shows-off-worlds-biggest-laser-gun-pic.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/latimesblogs.latimes.com/img/D1986F5D-3DFA-4E2C-927B-760FBB5BF3C7" alt="Laser" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://singularityhub.com/2009/05/29/the-national-ignition-facility-aims-to-create-a-mini-star/" href="http://singularityhub.com/2009/05/29/the-national-ignition-facility-aims-to-create-a-mini-star/" style="font-size: 11px;">singularityhub.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://singularityhub.com/2009/05/29/the-national-ignition-facility-aims-to-create-a-mini-star/"><H2>The National Ignition Facility Aims to Create a Mini Star</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://singularityhub.com/2009/05/29/the-national-ignition-facility-aims-to-create-a-mini-star/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/singularityhub.com/img/64380D82-8787-40A8-BE6E-2D80156A620E" alt="Inside the target chamber.  Courtesy of NIF" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://singularityhub.com/2009/05/29/the-national-ignition-facility-aims-to-create-a-mini-star/"><P class="wp-caption-text">Inside the target chamber.  Courtesy of NIF</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://singularityhub.com/2009/05/29/the-national-ignition-facility-aims-to-create-a-mini-star/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/singularityhub.com/img/1AC06A66-42FD-451D-9F0B-0A12792094CB" alt="The hydrogen fuel pellet targeted for fusion.  Courtesy of NIF" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://singularityhub.com/2009/05/29/the-national-ignition-facility-aims-to-create-a-mini-star/"><P class="wp-caption-text">The hydrogen fuel pellet targeted for fusion.  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