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12/25/2014 2:36 PM
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12/25/2014 2:44 PM

Too easy, it's a magnetic mirror from an early fusion test lab. And you think fusion is going to shrink to something useful any time soon???

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12/25/2014 2:59 PM

I do

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12/25/2014 3:14 PM

As a guess What I can make out of my iPhone is that it's some type of hinge for a huge gate like a flood or tidal gate or something

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12/25/2014 3:39 PM

No need to guess, that piece of metal weighs 400 tons! Here's the link, the photo is from 1981:

http://energy.gov/articles/photo-week-mirror-fusion-test-facility

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12/25/2014 3:37 PM

Telescope aligning mechanism.

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12/26/2014 7:28 AM

'Government Scrap' that taxpayers funded.

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12/26/2014 4:55 PM

A replacement knee joint for a very large person.

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12/29/2014 9:27 PM

It's the worlds largest femesphere.

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