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[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn so frfr China built one of these things off the money from horny gamers? This is like Dengism but way more funny

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago (4 children)

what the fuck is on their dev roadmap that requires fusion power

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Skyrim 2025

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I wonder how much of their operating costs are just the electric bill? Basically everyone is using a computer and even if you aren't doing LLMs, there's probably a dozen computers rendering something at any given time.
That and they probably have more money than they know what to do with, might as well fund something cool

[–] ElCanut@jlai.lu 6 points 1 year ago

Running in chrome

[–] Deinonychus@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Hoyo is going to make genshin real, starting with the fake sky

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Holy shit they didn't call it an "artificial sun"

bloomer

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (5 children)

For real. What is up with Western media refering to a fusion reactor as an "artificial sun" when the Chinese do it?

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It sounds cool as hell, which I don't think was the intention Western media had.

[–] Edamamebean@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

It sounds extremely cool. Reminds me of how Liu Cixin describes the spaceships in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy.

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doc Ock also called his reactor an artificial sun so I guess it's to invoke a negative emotion although it just makes it sound even cooler.

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah it's to make it sound kinda scary & reckless.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, got to make sure people don't start thinking a clean and powerful energy generation is a good thing. Especially when the State Department designated enemy is doing better than the US at developing it

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s not just western media. Official chinese media call it an artificial sun too. I suppose for chinese people, it’s just a cool sensationalized headline, but for westerners it’s scary sci-fi mr. Burns shit

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

They know their readers have no idea what the name refers to and probably are just reading the headline + first paragraph if anything past that.

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Western reactors are called that too by the media I thought

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The chinese text in the embeded video reads "artificial sun"

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not going to surprise me if MrBeast builds the first TOKAMAK in North America and brands it as Beast Power.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He builds it on the cheap and it doesn't work right, but everyone pretends like it's fine

This eventually leads to the future that Mutant League Football takes place in

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would really appreciate it if anyone sees the reactor looking off to pitch into help clean or repair it so it's branding always looks the best

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Excerpt from Xi Jingping Thought:

To seize the west’s productive capacity is not enough. Once we achieve that, we will then seize the western man’s semen, then we shall use it to fuel nuclear power and usher in a new age of communism.

Scary

[–] Hexphoenix@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

A friend of mine has officially helped fund a nuclear reactor

I gotta step up my game I guess

[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

The $5 a month Welkin Moon pass seems like a bargain