New Uranium Compound Could Lead to Atomic Hard Drives

[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.

Chances are you already have many things in your house that are more radioactive than these drives would be.

But it's ok, you can go on thinking that anything with uranium, or some other slight amount of radioactivity has some sort of instant death magic woven into it. I've handled uranium ore and eaten a sandwich immediately afterward without washing my hands. That was nearly 11 years ago. I'm still here and cancer-free.

I never said anything about instant death. I know people who were in Chernobyl and were using shovels to throw the radioactive dust off the structures there. Some have died, some are still alive but with many medical issues.
And i am sure that there are radioactive materials in my house already. And chemical substances that do harm human organism. And i was saying that i am not going to buy things
that have uranium or any other radioactive material in it if i can and as long as i absolutely dont need it. And and HDD would be one of those things.

 

[Tom Goldman]

New Uranium Compound Could Lead to Atomic Hard Drives

There are no nuclear reactions involved in the function of these hard drives, so they have nothing to do with atomic technology. This is like saying there was a chemical weapons spill on the dinner table when the salt shaker tipped over, on account of the presence of chlorine in the salt molecules.

The bullshit that consistently appears in your headlines is of such a grade that I think it would be best if its production were criminalized.

Lighten up, bro.

 

[McMullen]

New Uranium Compound Could Lead to Atomic Hard Drives

There are no nuclear reactions involved in the function of these hard drives, so they have nothing to do with atomic technology. This is like saying there was a chemical weapons spill on the dinner table when the salt shaker tipped over, on account of the presence of chlorine in the salt molecules.

The bullshit that consistently appears in your headlines is of such a grade that I think it would be best if its production were criminalized.

Lighten up, bro.

I'll grant that that second paragraph was going a bit overboard, but still, I do not think you are doing your job with diligence or integrity by posting the kinds of headlines you do. And if it was meant to be funny, it fails.

I understand that bigger hard drives by themselves are not big news, even if they use exotic metals, but that just means you should find a different story to write about. Instead you make up stories that are more interesting, but have little connection to reality. The Escapist is filled with articles about the amount of trouble brought on the game industry by news organizations doing much the same thing. I'm surprised at how quick you and other contributors are to follow their approach to journalism.

 

[Tom Goldman]

New Uranium Compound Could Lead to Atomic Hard Drives

There are no nuclear reactions involved in the function of these hard drives, so they have nothing to do with atomic technology. This is like saying there was a chemical weapons spill on the dinner table when the salt shaker tipped over, on account of the presence of chlorine in the salt molecules.

The bullshit that consistently appears in your headlines is of such a grade that I think it would be best if its production were criminalized.

Lighten up, bro.

I'll grant that that second paragraph was going a bit overboard, but still, I do not think you are doing your job with diligence or integrity by posting the kinds of headlines you do. And if it was meant to be funny, it fails.

I understand that bigger hard drives by themselves are not big news, even if they use exotic metals, but that just means you should find a different story to write about. Instead you make up stories that are more interesting, but have little connection to reality. The Escapist is filled with articles about the amount of trouble brought on the game industry by news organizations doing much the same thing. I'm surprised at how quick you and other contributors are to follow their approach to journalism.

Atomic may refer to: Of or relating to the Atom, the smallest particle of a chemical element that retains its chemical properties.

Atomic doesn't mean nuclear. The technique uses molecular magnets, made of two atoms. If the headline is somehow abundantly misleading, I'm failing to see how.

 

[McMullen]

New Uranium Compound Could Lead to Atomic Hard Drives

There are no nuclear reactions involved in the function of these hard drives, so they have nothing to do with atomic technology. This is like saying there was a chemical weapons spill on the dinner table when the salt shaker tipped over, on account of the presence of chlorine in the salt molecules.

The bullshit that consistently appears in your headlines is of such a grade that I think it would be best if its production were criminalized.

Lighten up, bro.

I'll grant that that second paragraph was going a bit overboard, but still, I do not think you are doing your job with diligence or integrity by posting the kinds of headlines you do. And if it was meant to be funny, it fails.

I understand that bigger hard drives by themselves are not big news, even if they use exotic metals, but that just means you should find a different story to write about. Instead you make up stories that are more interesting, but have little connection to reality. The Escapist is filled with articles about the amount of trouble brought on the game industry by news organizations doing much the same thing. I'm surprised at how quick you and other contributors are to follow their approach to journalism.

Atomic may refer to: Of or relating to the Atom, the smallest particle of a chemical element that retains its chemical properties.

Atomic doesn't mean nuclear. The technique uses molecular magnets, made of two atoms. If the headline is somehow abundantly misleading, I'm failing to see how.

Then it is a hard drive with molecular magnets, not an atomic hard drive. The atoms themselves are not the critical components, since the article mentioned that other elements could have been used as well. Something can be called atomic when atoms themselves are the critical component, like in an atomic clock.

In any case, it is very unlikely that that's the real reason you used the word, when nanotechnology would have done just as well. And we have evidence that it was, in fact, misleading because a whole bunch of people are posting comments saying the hard drives are dangerous, some for more than just the fact that uranium is radioactive. Either way, you failed to report the story effectively. If communicating the significance of scientific or technological news is your job, and this is a typical example of your work, you are not good at it. Not resorting to sensationalism is a good way to get better.

 

[Tom Goldman]

New Uranium Compound Could Lead to Atomic Hard Drives

There are no nuclear reactions involved in the function of these hard drives, so they have nothing to do with atomic technology. This is like saying there was a chemical weapons spill on the dinner table when the salt shaker tipped over, on account of the presence of chlorine in the salt molecules.

The bullshit that consistently appears in your headlines is of such a grade that I think it would be best if its production were criminalized.

Lighten up, bro.

I'll grant that that second paragraph was going a bit overboard, but still, I do not think you are doing your job with diligence or integrity by posting the kinds of headlines you do. And if it was meant to be funny, it fails.

I understand that bigger hard drives by themselves are not big news, even if they use exotic metals, but that just means you should find a different story to write about. Instead you make up stories that are more interesting, but have little connection to reality. The Escapist is filled with articles about the amount of trouble brought on the game industry by news organizations doing much the same thing. I'm surprised at how quick you and other contributors are to follow their approach to journalism.

Atomic may refer to: Of or relating to the Atom, the smallest particle of a chemical element that retains its chemical properties.

Atomic doesn't mean nuclear. The technique uses molecular magnets, made of two atoms. If the headline is somehow abundantly misleading, I'm failing to see how.

Then it is a hard drive with molecular magnets, not an atomic hard drive. The atoms themselves are not the critical components, since the article mentioned that other elements could have been used as well. Something can be called atomic when atoms themselves are the critical component, like in an atomic clock.

In any case, it is very unlikely that that's the real reason you used the word, when nanotechnology would have done just as well. And we have evidence that it was, in fact, misleading because a whole bunch of people are posting comments saying the hard drives are dangerous, some for more than just the fact that uranium is radioactive. Either way, you failed to report the story effectively. If communicating the significance of scientific or technological news is your job, and this is a typical example of your work, you are not good at it. Not resorting to sensationalism is a good way to get better.

Let's start judging YouTube videos by the comments people make too. Not sure what's got your goat, but the title and article are just fine.