# Teenager creates fusion

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenager-creates-fusion/381278>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 21, 2006, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenager-creates-fusion/381278 "2006-11-21T13:00:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenager-creates-fusion/381278/21 "2006-11-22T09:16:54Z")

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[QUOTE=athelas]  
Er, what is a hyperbolic chamber?  
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It’s the scientific term for a melodramatic enclosure.

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**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenager-creates-fusion/381278/22 "2006-11-22T09:29:41Z")

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[QUOTE=DocCathode]  
No, but I do remember the nuclear boyscout who was trying to make a breeder reactor and ended up with a radium ray gun.  
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[David Hahn](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn), I remember reading an article on him in the Sunday Times magazine. As mentioned, he scraped the face off glow in the dark watches. He also used IIRC a geiger counter to track down sources of radium, one hunt had him chasing a bus for a pretty innocuous item, but his big hit was the radium paint.

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**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenager-creates-fusion/381278/23 "2006-11-22T15:03:38Z")

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[QUOTE=Little Nemo]  
When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with achieving fusion too. But I don’t recall physics being involved.  
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Aside from measuring the heat relased from friction during a series of elastic collisions, you mean.

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**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenager-creates-fusion/381278/24 "2006-11-22T15:22:15Z")

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[QUOTE=Triskadecamus]  
A very funny misspelling of Hyperbaric Chamber.

Tris  
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And if you google “hyperbolic chamber”, the first hit is the Onion article, but it’s followed by a few real articles where the reporter actually used hyperbolic when he meant hyperbaric.

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**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teenager-creates-fusion/381278/25 "2006-11-22T15:25:01Z")

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[QUOTE=Sailboat]  
I can’t access The Onion from work, but look up their article on the Hyperbolic Chamber…it’s hysterical. It’s the _funniest thing ever!!!_  
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See [here](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30990). I suppose a link to [the picture](http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/onion_news3194.jpg) would be even more wombarific.

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