I was just writing about this so I'll share. The standard permeation rate* per unit length of a standard elastomer vacuum seal is around 1E-8 mbar.L/s/cm. A HDD has perimeter of around 50cm so the rate of helium leaking out (or air leaking in) is around 5E-7 mbar.L/s. A HDD has volume of around 0.1L and if 1000mbar of…

Danke!

Great, great video! If you read my other comments, you'll see i'm pretty nit-picky about science-y stuff, but this is spectacular! Curiously, there is no mention about what went into the audio. Is it the original sounds or added? Was it processed? All I can tell is that the last sound of Curiosity rotating its camera…

It's a closed-cycle! How to arouse them if they are disgusted by you?

The holodeck is the single coolest thing in the whole of the sci-fi world for me. I can live out all my fantasies for my entertainment (no, not just dirty ones). It would really mess you up though if you're in it for too long though.

"Pretty wild, right?". Yes! The claim of Jupiter saving the earth from THIS impact is pretty wild. If the dude was filming it when the comet collided, then geometry tells me that this comet was heading back to outer space, back to the Oort cloud or something. Space is vast. Pretty difficult to claim that this would…

In the classic honey trap, if you play your cards right, you at least get an ACTUAL hot girl to sleep with for the night before handing over state secrets. But this... this is absurd. All you get is a Taliban sausage fest! If you're giving up state secrets and not getting at least a bit of head out of it, you're not…

lol! The dude is like: slingshots sucks, lets turn it into a bow instead, with twisted rope for added power! I love the man and his like for MOAR power and destruction. But I do think he's missing the point of a David sling: it's portable! You can chuck one in your pocket and by finding projectiles already around you,…

Yup. They're gonna get sued. But HP is also an american company based in california. Maybe the the lawsuit won't work after all.

Holy shit dude. Your room mate and his GF were into necrophilia with body parts? That's sick!

Immediately after I made the post I did feel arrogant and bad—believe it or not. But then I read comment from someone who was also disappointed by the simulation. I get a bit angry—as a scientist myself—when science is over sold and over-dramatized. It's damn exciting enough in itself already. Yes, it is often…

How to simulate the universe.... only it's not the universe since it is in 2D and does not contain models of dark matter and dark energy, which makes up 96% of the universe. Instead, you get to simulate ad hoc particles with an attractive force between them. Great!

I love this app! Great for discovering new music—though, I do find it a little buggy at times. Navigating the mind-boggling number of genres is also complicated. It would be great if the app allowed "favourite genres". There's another similar app called Aweditorium, which is done in the style of thesixtyone.com. The…

I'm from New Zealand. Whenever I meet people from the west coast, US or BC, Canada, I like to call them my pacific rim buddies... or just rim buddies for short. It goes down well. ;-)

I get the same feeling...

Re: hold down space bar in quicklook... how is this much better than pushing space bar twice? It feels like more work pushing and holding it down. p.s.: it works in Snow Leopard 10.6.8.

Not bad. You, sir, just made my argument shatter before my very eyes. Although, I only take the existence of the spelling for lanthanum, molybdenum, platinum, and tantalum, which I can only presume is common to both UK and US english, to be the valid counter point.

Saint Basil's and the Red Square. I've been there! Oh and it's great to see Leelee Sobieski back! Boy, has she grown. I've been completely in love with her since Deep Impact. Ok, so she's not the best actress around, but I don't care! She's done a french miniseries before and I don't know of too many american born…

Hey! Turns out you're right. Aluminum is just like any other element in the period table: calcum, sodum, uranum. Can't believe I was spelling everything wrong for all these years!

Damn. I knew I should have taken my astronomy courses a century ago.