Chillum - Slashdot User

Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction? 355

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 11, 2008 @10:30AM from the that's-not-no-moon dept.

An anonymous reader writes "How the Moon arose has long stumped scientists. Now Dutch geophysicists argue that it was created not by a massive collision 4.5 billion years ago, but by a runaway nuclear reaction deep inside the young Earth."

Comment Not 3.1... (Score 1) 508

by Chillum on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @04:35PM (#19585987) Attached to: How often do you reload your OS and software?

...but my ex is still running Windows 98 SE from the original time she installed it... on a pentium 233... with a 56k modem. Using that computer is not fun :(

IBM Creates Ring Oscillator on a Single Nanotube 159

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday March 24, 2006 @12:23AM from the mini-milestones dept.

deeptrace writes "IBM has combined CMOS circuitry and a single carbon nanotube to implement a 5 stage ring oscillator. Even though the oscillator runs at just 52 MHz, they expect that it could reach the GHz range with improvements. The frequency of the current oscillator was higher than previous circuits using multiple nanotubes. IBM describes the achievement in the paper "Integrated Logic Circuit Assembled on a Single Carbon Nanotube" to be published this week in the journal Science."

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