Category: News and Views
Michigan teen creates nuclear fusion
An ambitious teenager in Rochester Hills, Mich., is ranked
as the 18th amateur in the world to create nuclear fusion
-- combining atoms to create energy. The Detroit Free
Press reported that 17-year-old Thiago Olson set up a
machine in his parents' garage and has been working
exhaustively for more than two years. His machine creates
nuclear fusion on a small scale. Nuclear fusion is "kind
of like the holy grail of physics," Olson told the Free
Press. Olson's machine consists of a vacuum that sucks
air out, and then deuterium -- a form of hydrogen -- is
injected into the vacuum. He then charges electricity
into the vacuum, causing the atoms in the center to be
attracted to one another, creating nuclear fusion.
Olson -- who wants to work for the federal government, as
his grandfather did -- is an otherwise typical teen, the
newspaper said. He is on the track team at Stoney Creek
High School and plans to go to college.
Where the hell does a 17 year old get deuterium for gosh's sake! Am I the only one who sees something wrong with all this? I mean I prize ambition and all but um, when he could have blown up a square block or so, this takes the cake. In his parents garage for goodness's sake. What ever happened to Lincoln logs or lego's, GI joe, and connector sets? Forget Saturday morning cartoons and video games, mom I am going to play with my deuterium . Would you be happy if this teen was yourneighbor?
I don't even want to think about having him as a neighbor. Being close to Michigan is bad enough.
Awe Beck, I thought you would be proud as punch at your MI cohort. Grins.
Now if that kid could figure out a way to blow up the whole state of Michigan without doing harm to anywhere else, I'd be proud as punch.
Just kidding to the few of you people from Michigan I can actually tolerate.
I wouldn't mind it too much if he was Becky's neighbor, might be interesting. <lol>
Actually, I don't know. You gotta respect the guy for doing such a neat thing. However, I'd like to know what kind of supervision he had.
Bob
If I meet him, Bob, I'll send him to Texas.
But yeah, did his parents know what he was doing?
He's a mad scientist and dangerous substances are widely available over the internet. I can't comment on the neighbour problem, what with the trebuchet and all.
Who does that? What's with this kid? Couldn't get any of the cool kids to hang with him? Not enough love as a child? I don't know what's with these kids today...
I bet Al Qaeda would like his phone number
i saw this on the news, and it was in his parents basement and his dad did help a little, he got most of the stuff over the internet, but, not 100% on this but think he got the very little bit of deuterium from the goverment, he does have lots of friends and lol they do call him the mad scientist
He got most of the stuff through internet? Right! And if I am not mistaken the US government is screening people who order their prescription medications through the net... somehow they let BIGGER fish slip through the net, the inter-net that is... That is what is wrong with the picture. Star
Something tells me he won't have a problem getting a job. I can just see it on a resume, accomplishments, created nuclear fusion in parents home at age of seventeen! I think that is like the equivalent to getting a novel published or composing a conchairto by age seventeen! Lets just hope he doesn't decide to move to Iran or North Korea!
He won't have to move there. He can just sell them what he knows and be a millionaire while other countries gain knowledge about how to blow the world to smitherines.