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Comment Harddrive not in freezer but ice water bath (Score 1) 208

I had to recover a drive from a test machine that was holding up about $300K worth of product from shipping. I didn't have a backup of this machine because someone deleted a folder on the file server recently. (I still don't know who did that). I tried freezing it, but the drive heated up too quick to get the data off. So, I took the drive, put it in a ziploc bag, submerged it except for the opening of the bag with the cables coming out of it in a bath of ice, water, and salt. The combination kept the drive cold enough to run a full disk to disk copy. We got the shipment out that night.

Comment Water from space never made sense to me (Score 2) 181

The whole water from the large bombardment period never really made that much sense to me. It always seemed like grasping at straws. The idea that water/ice was either in rocks, or just part of the mass that coalesced into the earth makes far more sense. There is water vapor in Saturn's rings, so why wouldn't there be water vapor in the dust cloud the earth formed from?

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