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it seems a shame to waste such a good mind on making a machine to split Oreos. Everyone already has a good machine for splitting Oreos. They're called hands. My father was a physicist, and when he twiddled in the garage at least he came up with something useful, a wildlife tracking collar.

On 30 September the National Ignition Facility's (NIF's) two-year-long National Ignition Campaign (NIC) officially came to an end. Despite multiple attempts on the part of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists to create miniature laser-driven thermonuclear explosions, they failed to achieve ignition, the point at which the fusion energy yield exceeds the energy required to start the reaction.