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Comment Re: Correction: (Score 1) 83

by Asha2004 on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @11:41AM (#50205099) Attached to: US Military Stepping Up Use of Directed Energy Weapons

If someone urges or pushes you to do something, you are still responsible for your own actions.

Comment Re: Peak Water (Score 1) 377

by Asha2004 on Friday July 25, 2014 @10:30AM (#47531071) Attached to: Western US States Using Up Ground Water At an Alarming Rate

You may be unaware of this but lots of water used for fracking actually comes back up as part of the process. This is then transported and pumped into the ground elsewhere. The wells used for this are not as deep as the fracking sites. Hence the many quakes in Oklahoma.

Submission + - What's needed for the 60TB hard drive 1

Submitted by Lucas123 on Friday April 11, 2014 @10:42AM

Lucas123 writes: Within the next 6 years, Seagate expects to produce a 60TB hard disk drive using HAMR technology. But WD and Seagate are currently on separate paths toward expanding capacity. Seagate with Singled Magnetic Recording (SMR) and WD with helium-filled drives. Computerworld has published a series of slides explaining what has been used up until this point and what will be needed to reach the 60TB end goal.

Comment Re: Socialized medicine (Score 2) 132

by Asha2004 on Friday March 28, 2014 @10:58AM (#46602725) Attached to: 3-D Printed Skull Successfully Implanted In Woman

Actually in the Netherlands a lot of hospitals are affiliated to universities. That assures they are interested and willing to invest in unique cases for research purposes. Capitalistic systems are only interested in return on investment.

Submission + - CERN Wants a New Particle Collider Three Times Larger Than the LHC (vice.com) 1

Submitted by Daniel_Stuckey on Friday February 07, 2014 @04:17PM

Daniel_Stuckey writes: Not content with the 27-kilometre-round Large Hadron Collider, researchers at CERN have their sights set on a new beast of a particle collider that could have a circumference of 80 to 100 kilometres.

The nuclear research organisation announced that it was hatching plans for an ambitious successor to the LHC with an international study called the Future Circular Colliders (FCC) programme, which will kick off with a meeting next week.

The idea is to consider different hadron collider designs similar to the existing LHC but more powerful—much more powerful. CERN wrote it was looking for a collider “capable of reaching unprecedented energies in the region of 100 TeV.” The existing LHC will reach a maximum of around 14 TeV (tera electron Volts).

Submission + - If we Buck Feta and leave, where should we go? 17

Submitted by Covalent on Friday February 07, 2014 @02:23PM

Covalent writes: I am a long-time slashdot reader (don't let the UID fool you), and I agree with most of you that the Beta is a disaster. Dice has promised a fix, but what if this garbage is the new reality? Is there a suitable alternative to slashdot that members would find equally (or more) fulfilling? Is someone going to fork slashdot and start it anew (Taco can you hear me?) Or is this just the end of an era?

Submission + - Graphene conducts electricity ten times better than expected (nature.com) 1

Submitted by ananyo on Thursday February 06, 2014 @01:30PM

ananyo writes: Physicists have produced nanoribbons of graphene — the single-atom-thick carbon — that conduct electrons better than theory predicted even for the most idealized form of the material. The finding could help graphene realize its promise in high-end electronics, where researchers have long hoped it could outperform traditional materials such as silicon.
In graphene, electrons can move faster than in any other material at room temperature. But techniques that cut sheets of graphene into the narrow ribbons needed to form wires of a nano-scale circuit leave ragged edges, which disrupt the electron flow. Now a team led by physicist Walt de Heer at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta has made ribbons that conduct electric charges for more than 10 micrometres without meeting resistance — 1,000 times farther than in typical graphene nanoribbons. The ribbons made by de Heer's team in fact conduct electrons ten times better than standard theories of electron transport they should, say the authors.

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