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In May of this year the National Ignition Facility officially dedicated the world’s largest and highest-energy laser facility. This monster, housed in a 10 story 3 football field sized building, contains a cluster of 192 laser beams that, NIF hopes, when all focused on one BB sized ball of frozen hydrogen gas will achieve nuclear fusion, in essence creating a star on Earth.

The good? If–being the key word–they are successfully able to achieve this it will be one of the biggest discoveries of our life times. This would be one of the first effective ways to create more energy than what was used to create it and could possibly solve global power issues in the future.

The bad? Maybe they haven’t seen Spider Man 2. The ‘star’ would have the same mass, gravitational pull and temperature-over 100 million Kelvin- as a star its same size. As you can see from the pictures below they have a special chamber to perform their experiments in which is an improvement to a bionic man with octopus arms and definitely a step in the right direction.

They will begin testing next year with an estimated live date of 2040 unless things go well from the start.

Worst case scenario we find out how black holes are made–just a little too late.

Too busy with your hectic life? Too lazy? Now you don’t even have to play those troublesome video games.

Nintendo has confirmed(currently unannounced) that the ‘Super Mario Bros: Wii’ coming out this holiday season will have an auto-pilot feature….

This has got to be one of the most unorthodox(ridiculous?) ideas in video game history possibly with the exception of a video game based on Michael Jackson rescuing little children from kidnappers.

Despite how dumb this seems there are some cases where this could be useful, I guess. We have all been stuck at one point or another and we begin to get frustrated beyond all reason and our tv is at risk of a controller being hurled at it. If this “auto-pilot” was setup to kick in after you had died several times in a row or if it was limited to a few uses per level depending on difficulty I could see this being a good idea.  This could also be useful for kids who couldn’t quite play a certain game without some help.

For more details you can view the article on USA Today.

What will they think of next? Hopefully, a video game that will turn itself on, beat itself, turn off and put the controllers away.