Zvyozdochka [she/her, pup/pup's]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agoUncritical support to miHoYo for taking gacha g*mer's money to build a Tokamak reactorhexbear.netimagemessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down10
arrow-up110arrow-down1imageUncritical support to miHoYo for taking gacha g*mer's money to build a Tokamak reactorhexbear.netZvyozdochka [she/her, pup/pup's]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square24fedilink
minus-squareBurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoFor real. What is up with Western media refering to a fusion reactor as an “artificial sun” when the Chinese do it?
minus-squareEmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-29 months agoIt’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
minus-squareSpiderFarmer [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoIt sounds cool as hell, which I don’t think was the intention Western media had.
minus-squareEdamamebean [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoIt sounds extremely cool. Reminds me of how Liu Cixin describes the spaceships in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy.
minus-squareiridaniotter [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoWestern reactors are called that too by the media I thought
minus-squareBreath_Of_The_Snake [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoThey know their readers have no idea what the name refers to and probably are just reading the headline + first paragraph if anything past that.
minus-squarejackmarxist [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoDoc 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.
For real. What is up with Western media refering to a fusion reactor as an “artificial sun” when the Chinese do it?
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
It sounds cool as hell, which I don’t think was the intention Western media had.
It sounds extremely cool. Reminds me of how Liu Cixin describes the spaceships in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy.
Western reactors are called that too by the media I thought
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.
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.