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Nova, a Common card
Nova was a high-power laser built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, United States, in 1984 which conducted advanced inertial confinement fusion experiments until its dismantling in 1999.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 123
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,300
Power 123 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Nova quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Nova card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
List of Larry King Now episodes. List of Larry King Now episodes 78 · Nova 69 · Senait Fisseha 66 · Mars flyby 59 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Acute pericarditis. Acute pericarditis 5,800 · Nova 4,300 · Intersex rights in Malta 3,400 · List of Larry King Now episodes 1,300 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Nova was the first ICF experiment built with the intention of reaching "ignition", the condition where self heating of the fusion plasma exceeds all losses.
- Although Nova failed in this goal, the data it generated clearly defined the problem as being mostly a result of Rayleigh–Taylor instability, leading to the design of the National Ignition Facility, Nova's successor.
- Nova also generated considerable amounts of data on high-density matter physics, regardless of the lack of ignition, which is useful both in fusion power and nuclear weapons research.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Nova article was read about 4,300 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Nova
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below Nova in the power ranking, all domains together.
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- Elizabeth NourseCommon · Arts · ATK 60 DEF 63
- Eliška JunkováCommon · Society · ATK 62 DEF 61
- Eden CemeteryCommon · History · ATK 63 DEF 60
- Martuni, Nagorno-KarabakhCommon · Society · ATK 62 DEF 61
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Nova (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
