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by Certified 10y ago
I have not knowingly seen this used in the wild but it looks intriguing. I've seen a lot of conformal coatings used to increase shock resistance but from my experience that is only half the battle. The thermal expansion and contraction
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by Certified 10y ago
I was referring to a seismic acquisition node used in geophysical exploration. Here is an example of a seismic node made by Sercel, one of the largest players in that market: http://www.sercel.com/products/Pages/un
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by Certified 10y ago
I used to repair seismic nodes as part of my job. BGAs had the highest failure rate in high shock and temperature cycling environments by far. I find it worrying that so many chips are being designed with BGA. All it takes is one ball disco
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by Certified 11y ago
Because once you are boarded and settled, you can start counting sheep.
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by Certified 11y ago
>It was an old plane. It was marginal economically. It had a fatal accident. And then, just as it was returning to service, the travel slump after 9/11 happened. I agree that all those are the primary retirement factors but I did no
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by Certified 11y ago
Maybe I am misinformed but I was under the impression part of the reason concorde was retired is because at those speeds you tear up the ozone. "From their particle measurements, the authors of the Science study calculate that a future
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by Certified 11y ago
Ah ha! I appreciate you pointing this out. I read the sentence at least ten times trying to make sense of it and still failed to make that connection. It still leaves me wondering what experiment at the LHC has attempted to reveal extra dim
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by Certified 11y ago
I got to the second sentence before getting frustrated with the integrity of an article by Nature: "They have tried to recreate dark matter, reveal extra dimensions of and collapse matter into microscopic black holes." The missing
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by Certified 11y ago
It has been suggested that some if not most elliptical galaxies are the result of two similarly sized spiral galaxies colliding: http://spacetelescope.org/images/potw1148a/ The most energetic event I can think of
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by Certified 11y ago
I am currently sitting in my pjs at home next to my two year old 45 TB ZFS server. It really just what you define 'home use' and everyone defines that differently.
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by Certified 11y ago
Speak for yourself. I am currently putting 110% into asteroid mining
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by Certified 12y ago
I was a bit confused until I realized what account I was logged in as... "Certified at 123.123.123.123"
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by Certified 12y ago
Sorry for the Poor Formatting. I tried editing my post and Hacker News wont take my changes. I suspect it is because I made a new account for this post.
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by Certified 12y ago
TL;DR : I think the X-37 is nothing more spectacular than an upgradable spy satellite that can change it's orbit of inclination giving it the ability to spy on any part of the globe as quickly as possible. Although the X-37B's mis