Z Machine: The Science

[@dirtmover3670]

WOW!! How far you have come since I was there in the early 80's. And to think the downing of a sidewinder missile with the airborne laser was the big news of the day.

[@Carl-Ernst-Otto-Kunze]

I am fake news

[@ThompPL1]

Getting some hints in this video about WHAT they are looking for and HOW, but still seem to be holding back the Details that anyone with college physics could tune into.

[@winningjubbly9712]

I remember Brian Cox doing a documentary about this machine. He was stood in the test control room (the whole chamber has to be evacuated when it activates) when it's turned on. When it pulsed he said the whole ground lifted up several inches as it swelled with raw power. And that was in the shielded control room!

[@JimConner]

A lot of that gear looks "sooty" Does the Z create Scalar Waves?

[@AMRO-109]

Good job

[@WilkinsonX]

How quickly could this machine cook a hotpocket?

[@BuffMyRadius]

High error attempt at calculating the time for the Z-Machine to cook a Hot Pocket: A Hot Pocket requires 1:30 to cook in a 1100W microwave. That's about 37 Watt hours. 37 Watt hours is 133200 Joules. The Z-Machine fires for 2.7 megajoules per 95 nanosecond shot. Cooking a Hot Pocket then requires 0.0000493 Z-Machine shots. 0.004687 nanoseconds to cook a single Hot Pocket. Or a single shot could cook 1.629 million Hot Pockets. Cooking times may vary depending on the energy profile of the shot. At peak current the time is probably much shorter, this is just an average time over the entire shot.

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

@@BuffMyRadius But chances are you'll get a couple of Hot Pockets vaporized, a couple of thousand incinerated, several hundred thousand thawed out, and a big fraction of that million pretty much untouched. Around the border between the untouched and the thawed, you'll get a large thunk of gunk(tm.), i.e. HotPocket paste cooked onto the side of yer ver-ree expensive Sandia Labs niceclean freshpolished fancy metal toy.

[@BuffMyRadius]

@@TheDavidlloydjones with the Z-Machine's radial layout I'm sure there's the possibility to optimize the layout of the Hot Pockets into two hemispheres above and below the axis of the Marx generators. Because the Z-Machine generally is used to output x-rays I'm sure it's just a matter of putting Hot Pockets the correct distance away to make sure they get the necessary heating density.

[@yay-cat]

oh how far physics has come from the first year stuff of pulleys and weights and things floating in water tubs. I’d love to work in this kind of facility. I left physics for engineering but the idea of doing experiments for stuff that’s more in the realm of theory is really cool

[@fjs1111]

lol...

[@alexkolesen3765]

And the fact that Honeywell owns the facility is not suspicious at all.

[@sebastianguzman3845]

The Goverment own the facility but Honeywell runs it…

[@Mike44460]

Helium, Ivy Mike made it, for a split second.

[@elysiumdevice]

sunshine makes it

[@winningjubbly9712]

Would it hurt me if I stuck my head in the middle when it switches on, or would I just get a tan, the worlds most expensive sunbed?

[@The-xp4xj]

you wouldnt want to do that

[@altareggo]

When i first saw this, i thought it was about Dragonball Z, lol.

[@HAWAIISURF808]

The real question is WILL IT BLEND

[@KazenoniKakuremi]

0:59 mic drop

[@BobNob1]

what is the point of this

[@KazenoniKakuremi]

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[@Nudnik1]

One must pause and ask ..Who is America s " enemy" and why do we need all these weapons????

[@Baredogg]

Hostile Aliens

[@The-xp4xj]

this isnt a weapon you dunce

[@YS.]

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[@grhinson]

The slo-mo guys need to do a episode here. I wonder if they are still using slap detonators in our modern nukes? I need me more Z...

[@ratnamnathan4744]

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[@robertkelly5515]

WHAT IS nORTH kOREA?

[@robertkelly5515]

Hmmm, lithium - I digest it everyday. Li2 CO3, they got bucket loads in my Pharmacy, but that is in Glasgow. Sincerely R Kelly

[@TheExplosiveGuy]

I use the stuff in fireworks and rockets, makes a nice deep red color.

[@larryfulkerson4505]

I'm not going to be impressed with science until I can download a waffle.

[@eagle7757]

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16, Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 4:5, Jesus Christ is the only way, KJV....

[@CD318]

They must all have vaccines.

[@CR-ou4hl]

It says at the end that it was filmed pre-Covid.

[@elysiumdevice]

emp wave may also neutralize outbreak without harm to people or infrastructure.

[@garthwhitacre3424]

Does Sandia National Labs believe that Critical Race Theory is critical for employees?

[@The-xp4xj]

how is this relevant in any capacity?

[@michaelstary3463]

Your doing it all wrong. Why are we channeling all that energy in a split second through less than 1cm? It looks like your trying to ceate something specific... but to get it to work properly you have to generate that energy over long durrations pulsing through a larger port. Granted the power source would have to come from a some kind of fusion powered reactor with the ability to withstand lightning strikes... also I would channel this energy into an oscillator with the capacity to hold and capture this pulse of energy. Then we could power the world off of one supply source.

[@bower31]

This facility is for testing and simulating thermonuclear weapon components lol

[@1977TheHammer]

umm... I don't think you actually understand what goes on at Z, and why it's vital to Democracy. Too much to type here, but these guys are as much a patriot as anyone in the Manhattan Project.

[@michaelstary3463]

@1977TheHammer that’s one way of thinking that holdings humanity back from its true potential

[@The-xp4xj]

this is nonsense

[@luisenriquez2712]

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[@doxielain2231]

I would rather our treasure and talent went to actual threats, like unequal resource availability and anthropogenic climate change. This facility, while neat, is a holdover from the cold war, and was a way to continue to employ our weapon scientists in the US in the 1990's.

[@CR-ou4hl]

I can only shake my head at the profound naivete of a statement like this. It's sad our educational system produces stupidity of this magnitude.

[@BuffMyRadius]

The Z-Machine also gets used for high energy astrophysics and inertial confinement fusion research. The research they are doing directly contributes to efforts to mitigate anthropogenic climate change.

[@timpeterson2738]

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[@CJY-f9c]

Cui bono !? Who or WHAT benefits? Hmmmmm !