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Titanium Oxide For High-Density Optical Storage
Stoobalou and other readers sent along word of research out of Japan, using a new crystal form of titanium oxide for high-density data storage — promising discs that store 1,000 times more data than Blu-ray does today, up to 25 TB. The material transforms from a black-colored metal state that conducts electricity into a brown semiconductor when hit by light, at room temperature. Titanium oxide's market price is about one-hundredth that of the rare element that is currently used in rewritable Blu-ray discs and DVDs. The material is cheap and safe, and is already being used in many products ranging from face powder to white paint. The researchers successfully created the material in particles measuring as small as 5 nanometers in diameter.
Titanium Oxide is the recent replacement of Aluminum Oxide, used by airplanes around 5000-feet to 10k-feet.
Wow, that sounds like it's really difficult to swap that out at that altitude. Do they have a youtube video of that, or better yet, a training video? ;-)
It's a "CHEMICAL"! Wow, damn, shit, holy crap, I can't believe it. They actually used a CHEMICAL. Who would have thought.
You do know that everything in our life is made from CHEMICALS? While you're at it, maybe check out this deadly chemical.
I just love it when people just use the word "chemical" to scare everyone away. So, where to start? first of all, Morgellon's Disease:
"Current scientific consensus holds that Morgellons is not a new disorder and is instead a new and misleading name for a well known condition. Most doctors,[2] including dermatologists[3] and psychiatrists,[4] regard Morgellons as a manifestation of known medical conditions, including delusional parasitosis..."
Yes, the sentence continues to say that some believe it may be a real condition, but the consensus is that it is some sort of Psychiatric condition.
Regarding Titanium Dioxide health issues - there are studies in animals that it can be carcinogenic if inhaled, and some studies argue that small particles can be absorbed by the skiin, but studies in humans have yet to show a similar effect, though it has been researched. Again, this is all from Wikipedia, this is not my area of expertise - if you have a different (credible) source, I'll be happy to hear about it. Anyhow, I don't think that if it would be part of a CD-like medium it would be toxic, in the same way that asbestos is only dangerous if it is broken and thus small particles are freed into the environment and are inhaled.
Whenever in an argument, remember this.