Comment by poincaredisk
4 months ago
>1,337 seconds: that was how long WEST, a tokamak run from the CEA Cadarache site in southern France and one of the EUROfusion consortium medium size
Is this a joke and reference to internet culture or a coincidence? Probably the latter, but i found it entertaining.
I work for the IFMIF project, an ITER-adjacent project with the goal of researching new materials suitable for future fusion reactors.
Trust me, we are all massive geeks, including my colleagues from CEA. There is a non-small chance that the result is deliberate.
The last record was 1066
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings
Would it make any sense for the Chinese to choose such a date?
It was the year of Halley's Comet.
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They turned it off specifically then. Just like the previous one at 1066. We used to do stuff like this in our labs as a joke. Or try and stop timers exactly on :00