Comment Re:NIF was really for weapons research (Score 1) 143
Sharks with frikkin' lasers are old school. Be afraid of carp with particle beams!
And I know that the real purpose of the NIF is bomb research but as a side effect it is still a good physics experiment. The only worry is that the results are always going to be filtered by security concerns so some results are going to vanish - this makes it trickier to use as a source of data but still good (rose tinted glasses? I hope not).