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Comment Re:Done 40 years ago (Score 2) 356

by cyborg666 on Thursday September 13, 2012 @06:50PM (#41329397) Attached to: WD Builds High-Capacity, Helium-Filled HDDs

Except that helium molecules are so small, they slowly leak out of pretty much any 'sealed' container?

Doesn't something have to get in to fill the void? Otherwise there will be a vacuum left inside...

Submission + - Gottfrid Svartholm Warg arrested for hacking (www.dn.se)

Submitted by cyborg666 on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @06:08PM

cyborg666 writes: Svartholm Warg's defence attorney says:
"- I just got appointed defender, which means that there is a new suspicion. More than that I do not know because I have not had any contact with him and do not know where he is being held. They should call, but they haven't done so."

Comment Re:Space elevator orbiting the moon? (Score 1) 210

by cyborg666 on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @08:17PM (#41159489) Attached to: LiftPort Wants To Build Space Elevator On the Moon By 2020

If you anchor the elevator on the far side, wouldn't it be "flung out" by the motion of the moons orbit, thus reducing the lunarstationary radius?

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