I really am trying to keep the posts down. Here are some science items I have been holding onto for a few days.
The new Mimaki 3D Printer can print 10 million colors in one model. The models look amazing and printing is becoming faster and more capable at a good but slow rate.
Lasers are in the news. The first one had scientists making their own solar flares with lasers to study how they work. The second had scientists controlling lightning using lasers and filament meta materials.
The last one is about Star Trek Phase II. The first movie was actually for a show where the crew worked on a revamped Enterprise. They couldn't get advertising, so it became a movie.
Deceptive headline. Making a solar flare would mean triggering one on the Sun. You can't make a "solar flare" on earth. I knew that it would be impossible to fire lasers at the Sun to make a solar flare.
Anyway it's a lame, stupid story about how scientists just made "plasma" with lasers, meaning they just fired the lasers at something to make it super hot. It's nothing special or interesting at all. It's a boring paper about magnetics in plasma.
It was hard to word. They are studying the magnetic flow of plasma and making guesses on solar flares from it.