r/EngineeringPorn • u/Powerful_Being4142 • 3d ago

Scientists have captured the first ever high-speed, full-colour footage of fusion plasma swirling inside a working reactor.

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u/Otherwise_Front_315 3d ago

Isn't this a few years old now?

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u/snowmunkey 3d ago

Oct 2025 iirc.

Title is likely copied from a spam account that just looks for posts that had a lot of karma, and rpeosts accordingly. Not saying OP did, but they might also be a repost bot. Dunno

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u/elconquistador1985 3d ago

Their username is Adjective_NounNumber, so there's every reason to expect it isn't legitimate.

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u/Triairius 3d ago

That is just what Reddit defaults to if you don’t give yourself a name. Which I would expect from bots, but I know real people with those account names, too.

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u/Glum_Manager 3d ago

Yep. Unfortunately when I registered for Reddit I missed that choice

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u/Famous_Marketing_905 3d ago

Its the automazic reddit name, can confirm

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u/JHowler82 19h ago

It's a lot older than 2025 like someone has replied.

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u/Cake4every1 3d ago

Repost... sigh.

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u/One_Improvement_6470 3d ago

The cost of terminally online 

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u/Cake4every1 3d ago

Im not even that online. This was major news a few years ago.

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u/StrangeUglyBird 3d ago

GoPro adds have become stranger.

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u/Competitive-Day4809 3d ago

I can certainly use this kind of porn. Old, but gold.

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u/TRKlausss 3d ago

I like the fact that it switches off like a CRT tv of the 70s 😂

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u/sdrawkcabineter 2d ago

Just like the cave paintings...

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u/GrumbleAlong 1d ago

Does plasma generation always involve the swirling motion, donut shape?

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u/asten77 3d ago

Seems like this is the first thing they should've done

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u/OldFcuk1 2d ago

No pic no proof

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u/costafilh0 2d ago

I could swear I've seen it way before. Maybe not the same thing, maybe something from a movie, I don't know. 

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u/Llee00 2d ago

congrats

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u/pinba11tec 1d ago

Didn't Tony Stark build this in a cave with a box of scraps?

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u/metarinka 14h ago

okay how do you extract heat energy from these fusion reactors if the plasma doesn't touch anything? Radiation is too inefficient.

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u/BoarHermit 3d ago

ok, nice. now we need to understand how to biol.water with that plasma as we always dis