I heard the high end nvidia cards have ECC on their video memory. They found there were too many errors when doing computation...

Do your 'workstations' have intel xeon cpus or amd cpus? Otherwise, it is quite unlikely that they have ECC memory, which is pretty much required of real workstations. Real workstations are reliable (and quiet). Just being quiet doesn't count.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s "After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[34] Erds won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence mathematics had been set back by a month: "Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine use."

By rare, you mean all Asus motherboards. You have heard of Asus? I presume they are in the consumer space? Look at any AM3+ motherboard, or even AM3 or AM2+. All of them support ECC.

I am not sure what you mean by 'comically thirsty'. Mine usually gets 60 miles per gallon. The worst mileage I got was when I drove in the desert when it was well over 100 degrees F, and I was driving 80mph. I got about 48 miles per gallon. I suppose there are some turbo diesels that get better mpg, but they are not sold in my country. I think you are a bit confused.

Your custom solar panel produces 600w? Where? In outer space? I have 200w panels, and I don't think 2 would fit on top of a pathfinder. And mine are 18% efficient at the panel level, which is pretty efficient. Perhaps if you use multi-junction space grade cells, you could get 600w, but that would cost more than a new pathfinder.

That is because Neil Armstrong was being interviewed by Sir Patrick Moore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Moore Moore is a pretty famous amateur astronomer, who is quite well educated in astronomy. Sorta analogous to Carl Sagan.

If you had a contemporary interviewer of similar stature fo Moore, I suspect they would ask similar questions.

The only question is would it air on prime time TV. In my opinion, British TV is generally far more scholarly than US television.

I am not sure what an 'expensive expensive' gun safe is, but the gun safes i have seen that weigh 500 come from costco or sams club and are not expensive. It is hard to imagine a house fire hot enough to melt steel. Even 9-11 only partially melted the steel structure. You would think a large steel box should be easy to spot after a fire...

I don't know what year you live in, but toyota does sell a pluggable prius. I will have mine this month.

Pretty sure it was written by Isaac Asimov

It is trivial. I wrote a python script to do it. It is licenced under gpl 3. It uses hard links, and I run it every time I backup a significant amount of data to my 10tb fileserver. As it uses hard links, it is designed for storing backup data, not for general usage. It can be found at http://jdeifik.com/ under 'Disk deduplicator'

You say you checksum EVERYTHING. I wonder what type of intel i3 processor supports ECC? From what I know, only intel xeon processors support ECC. Of course all amd processors support ECC and many cheap amd compatible motherboards do also. I bought a 3 core amd processor, a motherboard and 4gb of ECC ram for under $200, over a year ago. How reliable can a huge disk array be without ECC memory for the cpu?

Perhaps the AC Propulsion parts are expensive. That is what happens when you build in quantities of 1 to 10 at a time. Perhaps they aren't identical. Again, they don't do large scale manufacturing. I have driven most of their cars, starting with the Honda CRX, forward, except the E-box and the t-zero (though I have ridden in it). They have been building electric cars for close to 20 years. They have invented siginficant techonolgy. Has tesla? It is a stretched lotus with a modified AC Propulsion drivetrain. It is well marketed and financed. BTW, you get much better regenerative braking when you use front wheel drive, though perhaps less sports car performance.

Why license the technology from tesla when the motor and motor controller tech is based on the AC Propulsion design?