Ok Smart People – WHAT IS IT?

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Comments: 33

  1. Keven Gélinas 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    hdd arm?

  2. Thew Raslletem 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    laser?

  3. Terrell Woods 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    ratchet wrench?

  4. Brent Burzycki 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    This one is not easy… this is at the level of what +Mike Elgan posts……

  5. Thew Raslletem 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    it does resemble the inside of a ratchet, but that is a stange gear. Could be a custom wrench for anexpensive car or something.

  6. Mark Young 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    Torque wrench?

  7. Terrell Woods 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    Or underside of a kitchen spray faucet

  8. Sandra Parlow 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    looks like some kind of laser… is it something that reads a CD or something?

  9. Brent Burzycki 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    Not going to tell yet……

  10. Darren Neupert 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    some sort of wrench that fits all kinds of… stuff.

  11. kyle brasier 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    The camera sensor out of a cell phone

  12. Michael Garza 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    A socket wrench used on the space station.

  13. Brent Burzycki 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    so far I can say it has to do with lasers – but it is not a laser…

  14. Zack Davis 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    it looks like it could be some kind of fan or pump maybe? It reminds me of a magnetron a bit.

  15. Neil McAliece 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    A target capsule used in an experiment by the National Ignition Facility?

  16. Zack Davis 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    oh that's a good one Neil!

  17. Brent Burzycki 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    and we have a winner… !!!! +Neil McAliece – see I had faith that we have the smartest people on the web right here…

    Now the real question is how did you know?

  18. looks like a new kind of ratchet

  19. Neil McAliece 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    +Brent Burzycki Google Image Search is surprisingly useful sometimes 🙂 Click the camera icon in the search box and paste an image url (or upload an image). Is that cheating………

  20. Brent Burzycki 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    +Neil McAliece yep…but there are no limits on ingenuity…

  21. Mark Young 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    lol – it is useful, but I still don't know what it is!!

  22. Neil McAliece 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    +mark young Maybe this will help: https://lasers.llnl.gov/newsroom/project_status/2013/april.php
    I'm not sure that I really understand after reading it though. I think it's related to measurement of a laser or photon beam.

  23. Mark Young 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    lol – it may be English but I still don't understand!

  24. Mark Young 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    🙂

  25. Humberto Gauna 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    Window crank

  26. Zack Davis 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    (a little extra clarification on the video) The target is actually inside the center which is a specially shaped gold tube, which is used for it's reflective properties.

    NIF didn't meet their goal last fall of ignition (creating more energy than they used to ignite the target) so their funding was reduced this year and they now have to share the facility with other projects that mostly revolve around nuclear decay last I heard.

  27. Brent Burzycki 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    you can see updates here also: https://lasers.llnl.gov/newsroom/project_status/

    Like how NIF was the backdrop for the new Star Trek Movie:

    https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2013/May/NR-13-05-05.html

  28. Zack Davis 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    +Brent Burzycki if we're ever going to get to warp speed we're definitely going to need fusion power to do it so it seems pretty suitable 😀

  29. Brent Burzycki 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    I want a replicator….

  30. Zack Davis 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    I think that's gonna take some quantum computing… or some really good 3D printing. haha

  31. Thew Raslletem 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    I used image search and didn't find that. Weak

  32. Mark Dunham 26 Jun 2013 Reply

    Ratchet?

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