the term 'not Normal' is of course debatable: we are part of the environment, and so we change it.
It's kind of interesting that one of the greatest disaster (in death count) happend a long time ago when a tinny sea creature (but lots of them) freed so much poisonus gases in the atmosphere that 99% of the other creatures living at that time where made extinct.
There is a daily increase of the earth mass of several tonnes (which is peanuts of course compaired with total mass) from falling space dust. This might be a contributing factor to earth slowing down though.
However, this too would be peanuts compaired to the combined slowdown effects of the moon and the sun (and probably jupiter too).
I'm not too worried as total stop is not expected until after the sun burns us to a crisp.
Imagine about 30 (10 x 3) of those, packed tighly together inside the volume of an existing 3 and a half hard disk (you probably need to concentrate all the logic parts somewhere)
and maybe: - all simultanious access - use one or two as a redundant storage - using only one scsi connector/address
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This would cool the place down. not heat it up.
Remember the thread of atomic winters ? Dust in the atmosphere stops incomming heat from the sun.
the term 'not Normal' is of course debatable: we are part of the environment, and so we change it.
It's kind of interesting that one of the greatest disaster (in death count) happend a long time ago when a tinny sea creature (but lots of them) freed so much poisonus gases in the atmosphere that 99% of the other creatures living at that time where made extinct.
That gas was oxygen.
Was that Normal then ?
actually this is happening al the time.
There is a daily increase of the earth mass of several tonnes (which is peanuts of course compaired with total mass) from falling space dust. This might be a contributing factor to earth slowing down though.
However, this too would be peanuts compaired to the combined slowdown effects of the moon and the sun (and probably jupiter too).
I'm not too worried as total stop is not expected until after the sun burns us to a crisp.
But if you do, you get arrested if you ever entre the US.
nah, x was before no x it should be the other way around.
Hopefully the Borgs didn't patent the Cube in space idea. I'd hate to have them come and claim there rights. Ernest.
Imagine about 30 (10 x 3) of those, packed tighly together inside the volume of an existing 3 and a half hard
disk (you probably need to concentrate all the logic parts somewhere)
and maybe:
- all simultanious access
- use one or two as a redundant storage
- using only one scsi connector/address
doesn't sounds bad at all !
oh, wel probably won't need it anyway.