New Uranium Compound Could Lead to Atomic Hard Drives

[ReaperzXIII]

I have had my computer for 2-4 years, don't really know nor care but I still have 129 GB left, I don't really need thousands upon thousands of storage space so I don't really care about this discovery unless it means lag free interwebz services.

A lag free CoD or GoW?! I would be invincible!!!

 

[Neonbob]

...fuck...YES.
>.>
*awkwardly walks out of room while holding a large book against waist*

 

[Squilookle]

Well Steve Liddle of the University of Nottingham, you best lock up your research well, because you can be sure Robin Hood will try to steal it to prevent the Sheriff from using it for evil purposes... Like killing King Richard with it somehow...

 

[FarleShadow]

Well Depleted Uranium has a half-life of 4.468 billion years. That may sound like a long time but in a disk of 1,000,000,000,000 atoms (Not very much, its probably much more than this) then you can expect at least a few to decay every day. Of course, you need hard drives to not corrupt data quickly, but on this hard drives you would end up with everything slowly messing up.

Your comment has made my science muscle shrink to the size of a hamster's testicle, then disappear under my house.

Because if we're comparing the chance that the 'few' decaying atoms of an element in your harddrive that could, potentially, decay within 4.468 billion years and that those particular singular radiation bursts could potentially hit DNA that represents a small portion of your body at anyone time and that those affected DNA happen to represent themselves as cancer cells...

I'm sorry, my predictive capacity is limited to events happening in reality, if you would like to contact my quantum-computing co-processor, please *tone* press 1, 2 and 3 before the tone.

I am not on about the radiation being dangerous, I am on about the Uranium decaying into something else messing up the hard drive.

Next time read more than the first line of my post.

So replace the parts where I said 'DNA' with 'The chance of Radiation removing data' and 'Cancer' with 'The chance that removing acouple '1' or '0' has in corrupting a program.

The probabilities are roughly the same.

 

[dpep56]

Do people not realize this would hardly be dangerous. Uranium is in thousands of products people use everyday and seawater is full of it. Many other radioactive things are in your home as well. Smoke detectors use Americium-241 which is highly radioactive and gives off gamma radiation (which is the most dangerous). As long as your not eating it you are fairly safe.

 

[Lullabye]

So we have a computer that can run Crysis 3. Whoop-de-do.....

 

[Sprinal]

Well it would not be dangerous as the amounts that would be acquired even in the Factory would be less than critical mass. And also I doubt anyone is going to fire neutrons into the nucleuses successfully. And even if successful the they would only get a beta decay and not anymore then that.

Still tell this to Green Peace...

 

[English Stew]

Could you imagine a 1 yottabyte hard drive?

The rate computers are advancing, it's downright inevitable.

 

[yndsu]

Just sayin', I know a couple of people that have put stupid things in their mouths, the least of which was a lead buck-shot pellet, which in the state of California causes cancer.

Sadly indeed people are stupid.
And yeah, led can cause poisoning but so can pretty much all other metals if not handled properly. I work with solder ever day at work. So i like to think that i know how to handle metals and not to eat them. But like you said, most people are dumb enogh to eat metals.

 

[mooncalf]

Imagine the warning labels. 'Do not store hard drive near genitals.'

 

[Choppaduel]

Very interesting, be nice to have a 100tb hd
[hr]
lol, idiots comparing two atoms of depleted uranium to a nuclear bomb.

L2science

 

[RA92]

There's no chance we're getting hard disks made of uranium.

Because all of your depleted uranium is spent feeding this ************. This magnificent ************.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/GAU-8_meets_VW_Type_1.jpg/800px-GAU-8_meets_VW_Type_1.jpgGAU-8 Avenger

 

[WolfEdge]

Putting health concerns aside, does the average user even need that much space? The amount of space offered by modern hard drives is already way more than most people actually require. As such, I fail to see much of a benefit from even larger hard drives, at least not at this point in time.

I'm pretty sure people in the late eighties had that SAME argument, but for megabytes and gigabytes.

I'm really glad we didn't listen to them then, either.

 

[Hashime]

Sick! I have been working on a process to remove uranium from a low level shale material from Norway (I think Norway). Uranium is pretty safe as long as it is a. not inhaled and b. not in a free format. I would think this uranium would be trapped in a matrix however.

 

[Teddy Roosevelt]

Yeah, that is shady. Even when it is depleted it is still very radioactive.
So i would not want one of those in my house.
If they wanna use them in server-farms to store data be my guest.
But there is already way too much chemical stuff that is bad for your health
in any household and adding depleted uranium would not help it at all.

It is not as bad as U-235 or U-238 (which makes up about 90% of the radioactive fallout of a thermonuclear device), and the amounts they are talking about are very, very small. It would be so very negligible, it wouldn't matter in the least.

 

[Kakashi on crack]

Now, if only they could get the internet to run at about 1GB per second, I would be happy. Hell, I'd be happy with a quarter of that.

Faster internet servers from this due to less clutter of information = cheaper data transfer = faster download speed = internet running at 1 GB per second.

Really though, your own computer data can cause just as much speed decreases and disaster due to space it takes up and clutter, as speed of the computer itself.

Either way... This. Is. AMAZING

 

[Do4600]

I think it's funny that as soon as anybody mentions anything radioactive everybody thinks it's Satan in a suit come to destroy us all.

Look outside, see any dirt? chances are there are pieces of uranium in that dirt within three yards that are a couple hundred times larger than the piece of DEPLETED uranium they are talking about putting in a hard drive.

You have a better chance of setting off a thermonuclear reaction stepping outside your house in the morning than you would have using one of these purposed hard drives.

 

[silverdragon9]

lead buck-shot pellet, which in the state of California causes cancer.

so, it only causes cancer in California?