That's exactly the point. We know that nuclear fusion can give off VAST amounts of energy, but it's harnassing that energy and converting it to electricity that is the key. Every scientist knows that nuclear fusion is a holy grail, and solving it would solve the planet's energy requirements forever.>> ^raverman:

I know this is cool... but the "Why" escapes me.
What's the point?
"Stars" are enormous balls of ignited fuel. Spending huge amounts of tax payer money to concentrate sufficient energy to reach ignition gains us what? An achievement badge on Xbox live? then what? you have to keep the lasers on to sustain any reaction?
Nuclear Fusion is only useful if it produces more energy than it takes to create it.

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by laura. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

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List from here:

0’00 - Roxanne, Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Gleaming the Cube, The Princess Bride, A Fish Called Wanda, Star Wars, The Wizard of Oz, Casino, Three Amigos, A Clockwork Orange

1’05 - Dolemite, Glengarry Glen Ross, Bad Santa, The Witches of Eastwick, The Big Lebowski, In Bruges, Full Metal Jacket, There Will Be Blood

2’05 - Toy Story, Casablanca, Encino Man, The Women, Predator, Army of Darkness, They Live, Uncle Buck, Big Trouble in Little China, New Jack City, Billy Madison

3’00 - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Departed, Carlito’s Way, In the Loop, Glengarry Glen Ross, Stand By Me, Grosse Pointe Blank, Duck Soup, Caddyshack, Planes Trains & Automobiles

4’00 - South Park, Napoleon Dynamite, Mean Girls, The Breakfast Club, As Good as It Gets, The 6th Day, Step Brothers, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Full Metal Jacket, City Slickers, Road House, True Grit, Shot Circuit

5’00 - Raging Bull, The Usual Suspects, Snatch, Caddyshack, The Last Boy Scout, Ghostbusters, The Sandlot, As Good as It Gets

6’00 - 48 Hrs, In Bruges, Silver Streak, Glengarry Glen Ross, A Fish Called Wanda, Goodfellas, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, The Mist, Trading Places

7’00 - The Warriors, Point Break, Gangs of New York, Reservoir Dogs, The Breakfast Club, The Cowboys, Full Metal Jacket, Dodgeball, Donnie Darko, Scarface, The Good the Bad and the Ugly

8’00 - Anchorman, Tropic Thunder, Sexy Beast, In the Loop, Get Shorty, Blazing Saddles, The Way of the Gun, Blade: Trinity, Clerks, The Boondock Saints, The Exorcist, What About Bob?, Weird Science

9’00 - Con Air, True Romance, In the Loop, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Lake Placid, The Front, Gone with the Wind

>> ^ChaosEngine:

>> ^joedirt:
How can anyone watch those videos without hitting mute???
Her voice is almost as stupid as she is with rambling about things no one cares about, including her.

Clearly you haven't learned from last time. Don't make me burn you again!
'cos I'll do it, and then you feel feel the pain of the scorn of the internets!


again.


heh, upvote for reminding me about the frenchies from Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail.

"Leave now, or I shall taunt you a zecond time!"

I love how she bashes the entire scientific community one minute, and does a 360 for the last minute and praises science as the holy grail of this fantastic new energy alternative which has yet to be invented.

Bravo..

Somebody needs to sit one of these birds down in front of Star Wars or Monty Python' Search for the Holy Grail, or Napolean Dynamite or some other movie that is often quoted. My vote is for star wars though because of all the iconic sounds.

Well he got it exactly right, LaserDisc is great for collecting... but hardly a convenient format anymore. I think one of the nerd holy grails is the Star Wars discs because they are the "best quality available" of the original unedited movies. There are a few of my DVDs I remember the commentary track they speak of it as "commentary for this LaserDisc" so I imagine they were borrowed here and there. Or, unique commentary on LaserDisc vs. DVD (Blade Runner?)

Image quality is arguable and there is no real winner between LD and DVD. LD in video is still a composite signal and any LD player with S-Video is just running it through an internal comb filter. Technically its commercial quality VHS on a disc. Some movies remastered for HD and DVD like Ben-Hur there is a significant difference though, like no still image jittering.

But hey, can you really argue how cool it is to pull out a huge disc like that? (As long as its does not suffer from laser rot in the meantime)

I responded to your thread reply. But to add onto you an other thought, the obvious lagging technology technologically wise are batteries. We can produce massive amounts of energy but we're terrible at holding and storing that power for future use through electricity. We don't have battery banks to store electricity from wind mills and solar which would make them a constant supplier rather than an erratic one. Anyway, I look forward to you're next comment.

In reply to this comment by budzos:
Check my thread reply, wonder if you've heard about it.

In reply to this comment by geo321:
yeah, There hasn't been a big jump in battery technology for a long time. If that happened it would be a real game changer.>> ^budzos:
Solar is the energy of the future. Storage is the main problem right now.

No. I'm talking about methane clathrate deposits.

>> ^geo321:
Are you talking about Fracking? Or AKA Hydrolic Fracturing?

Are you talking about Fracking? Or AKA Hydrolic Fracturing?>> ^budzos:
Hear me and remember this: Although solar is the logical move, we're going to see many nations start up large-scale methane extraction plants along the contintental shelves. We'll need better catalytic converters, but I'm sure that will be worked out (I hope).
The method for extracting useable methane from clathrate deposits? You pump CO2 into the ice. So it's going to be easy to paint it as a green solution. Trust me on this one...
There is a major danger of massive methane eruptions, think city-sized volumes of methane suddenly erupting from the ocean floor and becoming part of the atmosphere. Aside from that I think it might be the thing that lets internal-combustion fueled capitalism thrive long enough to completely fuck our species.

Check my thread reply, wonder if you've heard about it.

In reply to this comment by geo321:
yeah, There hasn't been a big jump in battery technology for a long time. If that happened it would be a real game changer.>> ^budzos:
Solar is the energy of the future. Storage is the main problem right now.

yeah, There hasn't been a big jump in battery technology for a long time. If that happened it would be a real game changer.>> ^budzos:
Solar is the energy of the future. Storage is the main problem right now.

The "holy grail" for energy is when you can harness hype and turn it into electricity. Plug your house into Fox News and you're set!

>> ^Mcboinkens:
P.S. I am going with hydrogen for the energy of the future.


Joking, right?