Comment Re:Except weight and mileage DOES count... (Score 2, Informative) 713
It is proportional to the forth power of the weight: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road#Maintenance .
Submission + - Perfect crystals grown by cancelling out gravity (newscientisttech.com)
willatnewscientist writes: "Researchers in the Netherlands and Japan have found a way to grow perfect crystals in 'zero gravity' here on Earth. By exploiting the way a powerful magnet influences diamagnetic materials they have been able to grow protien crystals without the defects normally introduced as a result of gravity (The same trick has been used to levitate a frog before). Normally, such crystals are grown in space, aboard the International Space Station, for example."
Submission + - Google: Don't blame heat for disk drive failures
BobB writes: "Temperatures exceeding 100 degrees Fahrenheit may not be damaging to disk drives, according to new research by Google engineers which casts doubt on previous findings linking heat to elevated failure rates. After studying five years worth of monitoring statistics from Google's massive data centers, researchers say they could find no consistent pattern linking failure rates to high temperatures or high utilization levels.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/022607-googl e-disk-drives.html"
