There are a number of packages for simulating chemicals/compounds/solids/liquids/etc. for semi-reasonable prices (certainly as cheap as a nice telescope).
If one so desired, he could easily play around with simulations of materials all day. Curious about what tweaking a conducting polymer can do? Use VASP, TINKER, or some other first-principles code. It's computationally expensive, but with some patience alot can be done.
Also, there are some free molecular dynamics packages (I believe) so you can actually simulate the movement of all kinds of things.
One can see all kinds of neat behavior in things this way.
Just useful for transfers of very large amounts of data? Gee, is that what a high speed, 224 GB HD is good at?;-)
As someone who routinely works with large datasets ( > terrabyte uncompressed) as is typical for physical simulations I would LOVE to have one of these.
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There are a number of packages for simulating chemicals/compounds/solids/liquids/etc. for semi-reasonable prices (certainly as cheap as a nice telescope). If one so desired, he could easily play around with simulations of materials all day. Curious about what tweaking a conducting polymer can do? Use VASP, TINKER, or some other first-principles code. It's computationally expensive, but with some patience alot can be done. Also, there are some free molecular dynamics packages (I believe) so you can actually simulate the movement of all kinds of things. One can see all kinds of neat behavior in things this way.
Ouch! No kidding. :-)
Unless perhaps I am doing geology...
(get it... TERRA-byte. Forget it, I'm an idiot.)
Just useful for transfers of very large amounts of data? Gee, is that what a high speed, 224 GB HD is good at? ;-)
As someone who routinely works with large datasets ( > terrabyte uncompressed) as is typical for physical simulations I would LOVE to have one of these.
Gnutella/Limewire already does this... (I said nice butt... hehehehe) ~Dr. Weird