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  1. nanopourous silicon on First Silicon Laser · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm not 100% on this, but I do believe this stuff has been out for a while. In the lab I worked in last summer, we experimented with trying to grow gallium arsenide nano wires on a silicon nanoporous sub strait. This stuff costs us about $100 US for a sliver the size of a nickel. The idea was that we hoped we could get the nano wires to grow strait up and down much more easy than conventional techniques. The experiment failed because the silicon substrait could not be cleaved easily and the temperatures needed to grow the wires was too far too high for the substrait (~950 C), even though the manufacturer claimed it would hold its form past that mark.

  2. After all, gravity is a relatively weak force. on Good bye Dark Matter, Hello General Relativity · · Score: 1

    Is this an understatement? Last time I looked, gravity is THE weakest fundamental force.

    http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/kids_space/ forces.html

  3. Very true, but... on Court Rules in Favor of Anonymous Blogger · · Score: 1

    Is this situation of protecting anonymity counter to law? The goverenment of the US will physically protect your rights, such as privacy, but there is an extent to which they can protect your right to privacy. I can see it now:

    "Yes officer, I was making methanphetamine, but I was doing it in the privacy of my home. You should protect my right to privacy!!"

    Where should the line be drawn?

  4. Re:Only $380 million?! on Eight Charged in Episode III Early Release · · Score: 1

    Is it just my generation, or do you people have no idea what sarcasm is?

  5. Re:Ha! on The End of Encryption? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    87% of all statistics are made up on the spot...