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Uncritical support to miHoYo for taking gacha g*mer's money to build a Tokamak reactor (hexbear.net)

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[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 58 points 4 months ago

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

bloomer

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 44 points 4 months ago

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 34 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Edamamebean@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months 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 20 points 4 months ago

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 9 points 4 months ago

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

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months 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

[-] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months 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.

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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