NASA Scientists Simulate Black Hole Collision

Krishna Dagli writes to tell us Yahoo! News is reporting that NASA scientists have managed to simulate the merger of two massive orbiting black holes. Using technology from Silicon Graphics, Inc. built from 20 SGI Altix systems the team was able to show how the resulting gravitational waves would interact with surrounding space.

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Money well spent

[BilZ0r]

Yeah, now I can see why NASA were so upset about the small $15 billion dollar budget they'll get next year; they have so many important things to do that are really going to benefit the average person. Hmm, they say sarcasm is the lowest form of humor, and the escape of the witless mind... well I'm feeling witless. Seriously, how many kids could have had access to better computers at high schools with the money this cost? Each one of the processors in this beast, that's 10,240 computers...

I need to learn how to read

[kko]

I read the title as NASA Scientists Simulate BackHoe Collision...

Hoek on phoniks woerk for me!