<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>photochemsyn</author><text>I like how they don&amp;#x27;t even try to pretend that this is a route to practical power generation, it&amp;#x27;s all about research into the fundamental physics of fusion - which is a worthy goal in itself.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The record shot was a major scientific advance in fusion research, which establishes that fusion ignition in the lab is possible at NIF,” said Omar Hurricane, chief scientist for LLNL’s inertial confinement fusion program. “Achieving the conditions needed for ignition has been a long-standing goal for all inertial confinement fusion research and opens access to a new experimental regime where alpha-particle self-heating outstrips all the cooling mechanisms in the fusion plasma.&amp;quot;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fusion shot</title><url>https://www.llnl.gov/news/three-peer-reviewed-papers-highlight-scientific-results-national-ignition-facility-record</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nyokodo</author><text>This is an article regarding the scientific papers published about the ignition reported on in 2021.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Three papers highlight results of record yield nuclear fusion shot</title><url>https://www.llnl.gov/news/three-peer-reviewed-papers-highlight-scientific-results-national-ignition-facility-record</url></story>