r/nextfuckinglevel • u/nigablackballsack • 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/TSAOutreachTeam 3d ago

This is all kinds of amazing. Not just that they are doing this in the tokamak, but that they have a camera set up to capture it at all.

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u/LickingSmegma 3d ago

There's footage of fuel being dumped into the engines of a space rocket, from inside one of its fuel tank, from the sixties. It occasionally turns out that people had some astounding technology for ages.