I’m a mad scientist (by alaric)
Watching Spiderman 2 has reawakened my long-slumbering desire to build a giant Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor and stand in front of it cackling, with the cold blue light of fusion casting my twisted shadow into the dark be-girdered heights of my workshop.
There's not many things you can build from off-the-shelf components worth a few hundred pounds that will create a glowing sphere of fusing plasma to hang in space before your very eyes.
Except, unlike the fusion device in Spiderman 2, it has at least a glass-walled chamber to keep the air out and fusion fuels and exhausts inside, and if you stood in the room with it running without shielding, you'd be bathed in unhealthy radiation.
But for all the blatant silliness of the fusion device in the film, I was delighted by the many ways in which it did resemble a fusion device you could build from mail-order parts in a disused warehouse 🙂
Thu 19th Aug 2004 7:45 pm 1 Comment
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