Be carefull with the water-cooling requirement because in 5 or 10 years PCs might very well require it as as power densities for CPUs get up to 200 watts/cm^2.
As a matter of fact, I would be perfectly willing to have a properly shielded container of nuclear wast on my property if I were compensated for it. As long as the shielding is adequate, there would be no danger to me or anything else.
But the real solution to nuclear waste is reprocessing, so we can use the remaining 95% of the energy in the uranium/plutonium.
If I remember correctly, the alternative timeline Lt. Yar went back in time with the ship and was captured, married a romulan, had a daughter, tried to escape, was caught and executed. That daughter is who we see in the later episodes. Seems fairly plausible to me.
My biggest annoyance was in Terminator 2, ignoring all the time paradoxs, where the T-1000 could have just stayed a puddle and flowed up to Conner and suffocated him. It would have been utterly impossible for Arnold to stop a intelligent puddle. But then whe wouldn't get to see the best action movie ever made.
I always wondered about something. Bose-Einstein condensates are a direct consequence of the Heisenberg principal, because the momentum of an atom becomes so close to zero at those rediculously low temperatures, that the error of the position must increase, and so a bunch of atoms "share" the same space.
What is the limit of this? At absolute zero, wouldn't the position error be infinite, and thus the atom could be anywhere in the universe? That would be another singularity, like a black hole, right.
Any equivilent experiment with glass would probably require several million years. Glass does have a viscosity, but its BIG. The site said the viscosity of the pitch was 100 Billion times waters, glass is many trillion times larger. You notice how the GLASS funnel hasn't flowed noticably.
10 billion hours is 1,141,552 years. I don't think that any bearing made by man could spin at 7200 or more rpm for a million years. What the million years really means is how long it would be between both disks failing at the exact same time. Obviously a very unlikly thing. But this only holds if the failed drives are always replaced immediatly. The longer the wait the lower this number. And if the failed drive is never replaced, I believe the MTBF is only going to be doubled on average.
Actually, the Google Compute FAQ mentions that Google runs on OVER 10,000 computers. Damn, but thats gotta be lotsa fun to administer. With that many computers, one must fail every couple days I bet, unless they have some quality hardware.
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Be carefull with the water-cooling requirement because in 5 or 10 years PCs might very well require it as as power densities for CPUs get up to 200 watts/cm^2.
As a matter of fact, I would be perfectly willing to have a properly shielded container of nuclear wast on my property if I were compensated for it. As long as the shielding is adequate, there would be no danger to me or anything else. But the real solution to nuclear waste is reprocessing, so we can use the remaining 95% of the energy in the uranium/plutonium.
If I remember correctly, the alternative timeline Lt. Yar went back in time with the ship and was captured, married a romulan, had a daughter, tried to escape, was caught and executed. That daughter is who we see in the later episodes. Seems fairly plausible to me. My biggest annoyance was in Terminator 2, ignoring all the time paradoxs, where the T-1000 could have just stayed a puddle and flowed up to Conner and suffocated him. It would have been utterly impossible for Arnold to stop a intelligent puddle. But then whe wouldn't get to see the best action movie ever made.
I always wondered about something. Bose-Einstein condensates are a direct consequence of the Heisenberg principal, because the momentum of an atom becomes so close to zero at those rediculously low temperatures, that the error of the position must increase, and so a bunch of atoms "share" the same space. What is the limit of this? At absolute zero, wouldn't the position error be infinite, and thus the atom could be anywhere in the universe? That would be another singularity, like a black hole, right.
Can all verbs be nouned?
Any equivilent experiment with glass would probably require several million years. Glass does have a viscosity, but its BIG. The site said the viscosity of the pitch was 100 Billion times waters, glass is many trillion times larger. You notice how the GLASS funnel hasn't flowed noticably.
10 billion hours is 1,141,552 years. I don't think that any bearing made by man could spin at 7200 or more rpm for a million years. What the million years really means is how long it would be between both disks failing at the exact same time. Obviously a very unlikly thing. But this only holds if the failed drives are always replaced immediatly. The longer the wait the lower this number. And if the failed drive is never replaced, I believe the MTBF is only going to be doubled on average.
Actually, the Google Compute FAQ mentions that Google runs on OVER 10,000 computers. Damn, but thats gotta be lotsa fun to administer. With that many computers, one must fail every couple days I bet, unless they have some quality hardware.