Asdex Upgrade experimental facility generates its first plasma
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Asdex Upgrade experimental facility generates its first plasma

by Max Planck Society

The plasma vessel from Asdex Upgrade. At the bottom you can see the divertor’s baffle plates. Credit: Volker Rohde

“The ways employed by ‘ people with interest’ to manipulate public opinions has no limits, but you should never forget that compare to humans, nature has 100% better safety record than us. Although, motivators philosophy of over emphasizing success (just keep the successful events) and erasing failures, by a minimalistic approach of the fact that we are part of nature, requires from us to always keep in mind that their way is not how natural systems works. Our closest Plasma Producing Plant, the Sun, has its own balancing system, allowing its existence maybe for another 5 billion years. But within the Universe time scale, the Sun is just another star, it doesn’t matter how long it takes, one, five, twenty billion years for it to disappear as a star, I can assures you that the Universe doesn’t care about that. On the other hand and on the same time scale, Earth is like an almost invisible point in a graphic that appears and disappears. Just focusing on human specie, with absolute certainty we can affirm that Earth is the only place in the universe where we can live. Outside of Earth a life support system is required. Meaning that we have to care about our planet. So, building a ” Safe Plasma Vessel” (the name sounds less scary), by just Humans, a specie with the worst, catastrophic, a full of incident safety record in the whole galaxy, exemplified by, aircraft and all kinds of machines crashes, rocket , batteries, plants and refineries explosions, dozen of thousands of car accidents, etc. , then it should not be a decision to be taken by a small group of people, “Humanity Should Be Consulted”. Just look around and evaluate the results, the long term results,of our attitude of taken as good, blindly for granted, everything coming out of STEM. Building a small Sun on Earth is just the worst and riskiest business oriented decisions ever made. Take off the camuflaje and don’t forget Chernobyl.

Recently I heard a ” Philosopher of Physics” with some obvious resentment, affirming that- ” Yes, we should spend billions of dollars building LHC like machines,just for humans curiosity because that’s what we are”, and that is their best answer, of course physicists will accept them as a profession.