New Uranium Compound Could Lead to Atomic Hard Drives

[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?

 

[Logic 0]

Well at least now I would then be finally be able to say my hard drive is going nuclear.

 

[Somatsu]

I would think that anything they can use to make a buck, they will. And anything that will grant convenience, people will buy. Regardless of what it means for the planet or everyone around them. I'm still hanging on to see who can make energy out of garbage or sewage.

 

[Rigs83]

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.

Read this [http://www.anythingradioactive.com/radsamples.htm] and fear the smoke alarm.

 

[Rigs83]

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[HEADING=1]Everybody!!![/HEADING]

Read this [http://www.anythingradioactive.com/radsamples.htm] and fear the smoke alarm.

 

[yndsu]

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.

Read this [http://www.anythingradioactive.com/radsamples.htm] and fear the smoke alarm.

I was actually familiar with most of those things in the list.
Didnt know about the smokealarm though. At the same time, not all smokealarms work the same way. Many of them are actually optical not chemical so not all of them have that radioactive isotope in them.

 

[New York Patrick]

Would be fun if it was an actual Atomic hard drive and that suddenly the hard drive break and a new chernobyl will be created.
...
No actually that would be really bad :O

Still, I don't mind a thousandfold increasement of storage space.
Though I already have enough of 1 terabyte. I don't have that full yet :O

Can you imagine it though? You're in a heated game online, you're close to winning the big championship for major money, then your dog runs through horny as heck because your female dogs are all in heat, and he rips past you and hits the cord, toppling everything over. Worst yet? That anvil you use for your weekly blacksmithing class is right above, and just as the Uranium-drive tower hits the ground, it falls down and hits it. Boom, you just wiped your entire team, and street, and block... district... city... god that sucks!

No need to worry, chemical compounds won't ever give you a nuclear explosion because they are exclusively electron exchanges, sharing, etc. (electrons being outside the nucleus)

Yeah, in theese times of terrorist scares just who is going to be comfortable with releasing Uranium to the general public.

And dont think like someone who knows that this cant be purified to pure Uranium, think like someone who believes Fox News.

I'm afraid, tell me who to hate!

Quick! Hate the group of people you can understand the least, and dress up the weirdest! They buy yellow-cake uranium from Chinese child-labor sweatshops and their currency is puppy dog blood!

Wait... they get puppy dog blood? Those basterds are OVERPAID!

 

[SimpleJack]

awesome, a hard drive that doubles as a bomb...