It appears it's Earth soil. I found nothing in the article to suggest it's using lunar soil here, which would be the real test. The article should have pointed that out; it's not a trivial admission.
Obviously not, because robots don't poop.
In a human station there would be fertilizer available.
People have already tried strapping rockets to cars. It usually doesn't end well, unless the outcome you wanted was some awesome high-speed camera footage and a totaled car..
Of course capitulating to him would encourage him to do the same thing again, not to mention setting a future precedent for other presidents with unpopular ideas.
This is the point. It's nothing to do with Democrats vs. Republicans, it's about setting precedents.
Of course Trump will use this as an excuse to divide the nation even more. That's his only real talent.
"You didn't get paid last month? Blame the Democrats!"
As Joce got murdered by MS-13 members, all he/she could think was....Well Mexico never paid for this so it is ok.
And yes, we could very easily make Mexico indirectly pay for it by heavily taxing imports/exports. This would have the added benefit of punishing companies that ran to Mexico for cheap labor. But, surprise, Democrats did not want us to do that anyway.
Trump made some very specific statements about who would pay for the wall.
Yep. SSDs are currently about four times the price of HDDs per byte. That's a massive drop over the last few years and the difference is only going to get smaller with time.
These new HHDs will have to be really cheap to keep HDD alive for more than a year or two. If they cost more than current HDDs then there won't be much point to them.
Backup yesterday's drives onto today's bigger drives and keep both generations around. Repeat every couple of years or so, discarding the grandparents. This way your total storage keeps growing to keep up with your accumulated data and you always have two copies of it around in case a drive dies.
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Scientists unite the world, Politicians divide it up.
(and guess what the human race is electing to run it)
At least they didn't have Genuine People Personalities.
(although Apple is rumored to be working on that)
Facebook is over 14 years old. They already have a series of photos showing people ageing more than 10 years.
Yes, but it's really handy if people will go online and confirm the results of their AI.
...and nothing of value was lost.
It appears it's Earth soil. I found nothing in the article to suggest it's using lunar soil here, which would be the real test. The article should have pointed that out; it's not a trivial admission.
Obviously not, because robots don't poop.
In a human station there would be fertilizer available.
It took a special kind of moron to make that happen.
Or ... a marketing genius who figured out how to get everybody who bought one of their phones to spend another $200 on a pair of headphones.
The current one failed to create a black hole so they need to try again.
1. When you have a viable (politically and otherwise) solution to long term waste storage.
Maybe we could just blow it into the air and/or dump it into the sea, just like the coal-fired plants do.
https://www.scientificamerican...
Can we regret the decision in public forums?
If it's reasonably priced and faster than a boat then it has a big future.
Hydrogen could easily be viable, these days.
All we need to do is get rid of religion and all the other mental illnesses that could lead to deliberate attacks on hydrogen-based craft.
Ummm, the target audience is "people who don't want Bluetooth audio".
Zeppelin is Nazi tech, verboten. You shouldn't even think about them. Consider this a friendly warning
You know Zeppelins were WWI, right?
Tell that to Lynndie England.
People have already tried strapping rockets to cars. It usually doesn't end well, unless the outcome you wanted was some awesome high-speed camera footage and a totaled car..
That was Mythbusters, not engineers.
Of course capitulating to him would encourage him to do the same thing again, not to mention setting a future precedent for other presidents with unpopular ideas.
This is the point. It's nothing to do with Democrats vs. Republicans, it's about setting precedents.
Of course Trump will use this as an excuse to divide the nation even more. That's his only real talent.
"You didn't get paid last month? Blame the Democrats!"
If Trump promised anything at all in 2016, he clearly promised he'd build a wall.
He was also very clear about who was going to pay for it.
(and it wasn't the American taxpayer)
As Joce got murdered by MS-13 members, all he/she could think was....Well Mexico never paid for this so it is ok.
And yes, we could very easily make Mexico indirectly pay for it by heavily taxing imports/exports. This would have the added benefit of punishing companies that ran to Mexico for cheap labor. But, surprise, Democrats did not want us to do that anyway.
Trump made some very specific statements about who would pay for the wall.
You mean by doing the sensible thing, eg. Postponing the wall until there's money to pay for it?
(There'll be money, right? Trump's economic policies are working...?)
If they pay for his wall because he has a tantrum, what's next?
He'll be shutting down the government for every last little thing until he gets his way.
There's no way anybody should give way on this (except The Donald, obviously).
PS: Wasn't Mexico going to pay for this?
Yep. A $5 inductive charger would do it.
And ... why would you hover when charging? That's wasted power (8 minutes of flight time)
Nothing about this passes the sniff test.
A 10TB SSD would be a wonderful thing. :)
Ever hear of RAID?
Yep. SSDs are currently about four times the price of HDDs per byte. That's a massive drop over the last few years and the difference is only going to get smaller with time.
These new HHDs will have to be really cheap to keep HDD alive for more than a year or two. If they cost more than current HDDs then there won't be much point to them.
Simple answer: Always keep more than one backup.
Backup yesterday's drives onto today's bigger drives and keep both generations around. Repeat every couple of years or so, discarding the grandparents. This way your total storage keeps growing to keep up with your accumulated data and you always have two copies of it around in case a drive dies.
Maybe you should call them and point this out.
I don't like to think of them fumbling in the dark, wasting time trying to make these drives without really knowing what they're doing.