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The Skeptics Guide #876 - Apr 23 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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How to Skin a Cat?

Fusion reactor is a feat of engineering, bigger and and more complicated than probably anything other than maybe the hadron collider. There's also another way, using inertial confinement, that's also showing some promising success. This idea guides the original idea here came from the pistol shrimp. They shoot a hundred gram projectile, 200 times the speed of sound, from a two stage get this hyper velocity gas gun. It causes like a cavitation in the water with little minnie, boom, there care.

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