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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-08-08 01:43 PM Original message |
Hard Drive Recovered from "Columbia" Shuttle Solves Physics Problem |
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ramapo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-08-08 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
1. Pretty impressive n/t |
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Mabus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-08-08 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
2. We need to get that foresenics discovery team to work on the WH computers |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 05:28 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. My thought exactly! |
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merh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-08-08 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
3. so this tells me that if I want to destroy my hard drive |
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deadmessengers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-08-08 01:53 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. That's actually not far off from what I've seen done in the past. |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-08-08 11:44 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. The degausser is a good idea, but the rest is a unnecessarily massive amount of work... |
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ohioINC (126 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-08-08 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
5. Sounds expensive |
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caraher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 06:46 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. peanuts compared to what it burns in Iraq |
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uberllama42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 07:49 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. I have a friend who really hates the space program |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-18-08 07:38 AM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Actually they do some really interesting biology/physiology/disease research |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-09-08 02:17 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. 7 dead people |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-12-08 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
11. But nothing useful survived the four 911 crashes. Right. Tell me another. n/t |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-18-08 07:35 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Space shuttle technology is a bit more sophisticated |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-19-08 06:30 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. No, that's a perfectly-ordinary "COTS" disk drive with added shock-mounts. |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 12:01 PM Response to Original message |
12. practical applications? |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 01:45 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Not every experiment is specifically meant for consumer applications from day one. (nt) |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-18-08 06:09 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. well sure, but that doesn't make it less fun to think about |
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TheMadMonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-17-08 09:46 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Definitely. I suspect Xenon was chosen because it is a noble gas. |
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