In its simplicity: NIF is an experiment in what the consequences of heat energy can do. Those consequences are: it can create fusion/ and fusion will sustain itself, because it is the atomic bonds burning (a bit like a chemical fire where molecular bonds are burning); and there is an endless supply of fuel here/ which means once started we cannot put it out, and will become just like the sun. The earth simply a "lake of fire". There are other consequences: by controlling the atomic environment and "suffocating it" with energy through heat: the energy will try to escape: that is literally what keeps us alive during any nuclear event. The entire purpose of nif, is to contain the nuclear environment and not let it escape. That leaves us with three potential options/ but no more, because it is a simple environment. Fusion/ one of the lasers fails and allows escape; creating an explosion commensurate with the energy being used (the law is, for every action/ there will be an equal opposite reaction)/ and if sufficient energy and pressures are created (they can do so), the next step if contained is the creation of a black hole. Because if the energy absolutely cannot get out/ and more pressure is applied than the environment can withstand, then it must turn inward, and that is what creates a black hole, or dark matter as a result. Under anything close to full operation nif WILL establish one of these three results. Fusion the world dies in fire/ a black hole and the whole world will be sucked in, believe it or not/ an explosion massive enough to duplicate the energy being used could easily extinguish the entire San Francisco region; creating a shock wave and potentially dumping massive "disturbances in the ocean", through earthquakes that would then be felt across the ocean as a tidal wave. Such is your experiment/ and you CAN understand this simple association of facts. That means it is a choice, and you allow it to exist at the risk of an entire world. Idiots suggest: it takes extreme pressures to sustain a fusion fire/ because they believe "the sun burns from the inside out"; an apparent fools paradise, as they have no other means of identifying fusion for themselves. But we see no fissures/ no means of identifying "hotter area's and colder ones" as this must occur if indeed it burns from the inside out; pressures will move and vent where they can. But apart from all the evidence in this/ the primary reality already discovered is: that a dying sun goes supernova, and as a result expands to more than 3 times its current size; becoming much more intense. THAT MEANS, in simple terms for this to happen: the core of the sun must expand. To expand, the mass exposed must be heated farther than it has been. That means the inner core of any sun is much cooler than the outer surface where fusion occurs is. And that means it is absolutely impossible to believe the sun "burns from the inside out". The evidence of a supernova, ultimately and without question proves this is not so.