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How Heavy Is a Petabyte? 495

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @06:21PM from the but-electrons-don't-weigh-anything dept.

Jon Morgan writes "Whilst heaving around numerous data storage systems to sell (they weigh A LOT!), we got to wondering: How heavy is a Petabyte of data storage? Our best guess is 365KG, which is 6 million times lighter than in 1980! But is there a lighter way to store a Petabyte?"

Submission + - SPAM: A new career: isotope designer 1

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Roland Piquepaille

on Saturday May 10, 2008 @01:19PM

Roland Piquepaille writes: "According to a Michigan State University (MSU) news release, 'Made-to-order isotopes hold promise on science's frontier,' nuclear physicists can now start a new career as isotope designers. These scientists can build specific rare isotopes to solve scientific problems and open doors to new technologies. The lead researcher says this approach has already given us the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan technology. He's now going further, saying that he wants to build objects 100,000 times smaller than the atomic nucleus. He calls this 'femtotechnology.' Fascinating, but read more for additional references and pictures of the tools used for this kind of research, picked from a 415-page design paper (no kidding!)."

Comment Just use a different IM client... (Score 1, Insightful) 364

by ZlatanZ++ on Saturday May 10, 2008 @01:10PM (#23361888) Attached to: Microsoft IM Blocking YouTube Links

It's Microsoft's app, they can do what the fuck they want with it. Use something else.

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