Didn't mean to engage in stone-throwing, just was feeling a bit bewildered. Thanks for the reply Meredith.

In what universe is Game of Thrones sci-fi!?!? I am a big fan of Tolkein but The Hobbit isn't sci-fi either!

I wouldn't make that assumption; Petit said they don't necessarily know why HDDs break more frequently in space. It could be due to cosmic rays and other sorts of radiation. Are SSDs by their nature any more resistant to cosmic rays than HDDs? They use radiation-hardened stuff on interplanetary probes, but that's…

Wouldn't a mechanism like this allow digital information to travel instantaneously, by switching the light on and off? Can someone explain why this wouldn't work?

The bottom image bears a remarkable resemblance to a coronal section of the human brain. Ventricles .. white matter tracts - hell, there's even a frakking corpus callosum! I wonder - was this in purpose or not? If not it may be an amazing example of a relationship between fluid mechanics and brain evolution. Wow!

Is that tree around 0:30 walking or am I hallucinating?