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Using Depleted Uranium To Make Hard Drives?

Dr. Wily holding a vibrator or some sort of sex toy.lol
 
Wouldn't that mean the disks would weigh lots more than usual? Is there any advantage to the depleted uranium other than possibly reusing as a tank busting missile? Will be impressed when there are harddisks made of candy.
 
Once they overcome the "2 degrees above absolute zero" temperature issue we'll be rockin' lots of storage.
 
Great now when a hard drive crashes in the future we risk it blowing up the rest of our computer. But would it be great being able to tell friends that dont know about the uranium in the computers that I have x amount of depleted uranium sitting at home lol :D
 
Greg-O said:
Great now when a hard drive crashes in the future we risk it blowing up the rest of our computer. But would it be great being able to tell friends that dont know about the uranium in the computers that I have x amount of depleted uranium sitting at home lol :D
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No, not really, just one the disk crashes, you can fancy it into a tank/bunker busting round that you can either fire out of a Howitzer or a smaller .50BMG round. :D
 
Not gonna happen since abrams tanks use it in their armor, military always gets it first. I was pretty sure uranium does not have an unlimited supply
 
Not unlimited, but there is still a shitload available, plenty enough that using it in harddrives will not be significant.

xIronCrossx said:
Not gonna happen since abrams tanks use it in their armor, military always gets it first. I was pretty sure uranium does not have an unlimited supply
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xIronCrossx said:
Not gonna happen since abrams tanks use it in their armor, military always gets it first. I was pretty sure uranium does not have an unlimited supply
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The military has thousands of Abrams tanks in storage, at least a few of them with the DU mesh. Shouldn't be an issue really, especially if those stocks get drawn down.
 
Whatsisname said:
Not unlimited, but there is still a shitload available, plenty enough that using it in harddrives will not be significant.
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I just can't see it being cheap enough for hard drive production. Using it for military use is fine since its uses justify its high cost.
 
Damn, they beat me to it.

I was going try to be original and name my first child bis(bis(N-trimethylsilyliminodiphenylphosphorano) methanide uranium iodo) tolueniide - we'd call him 'Bizaium' for short.

I guess that dream is dead now.
 
crazy-dildo-scientist.jpg
 
I was also more impressed with the mad scientist's desktop than anything he was talking about.
 
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we are freaking doomed...scientist #2 is my new hero
 
Interesting video, but nothing commercially practical by any means. If I'm not mistaken, the only way to achieve that low of a temperature is to use liquid helium, which is how they cool the infrared sensors in space telescopes (partly how they get such pretty pictures on NASA.com). Since it requires the evaporation of such liquid to cause the extreme low temperatures, this would be a very expensive hard drive to operate. Even still, since science is cumulative knowledge, research like this will open doors to new developments later on down the road. It's unlikely that we'll be using DU hard drives anytime soon, but this may be very interesting in the future for, say, something like a space satellite collecting data from Neptune.

Just an FYI, depleted uranium is neither radioactive, nor is it explosive. DU rounds are simply super high velocity pencil-like rounds that punch holes in enemy armor. The DU round isn't explosive, but when you punch a hole at that speed and force, the metal liquefies, spraying the inside of the tank with the molten slag. It'll kill the crew instantly, and light anything it touches on fire, which is why it's so darn effective. So, really, enough with this idea that a hard drive made out of DU would explode upon crashing, or turn your balls into sand. It's called depleted uranium for a reason lol.
 
Ranari said:
Interesting video, but nothing commercially practical by any means. If I'm not mistaken, the only way to achieve that low of a temperature is to use liquid helium, which is how they cool the infrared sensors in space telescopes (partly how they get such pretty pictures on NASA.com). Since it requires the evaporation of such liquid to cause the extreme low temperatures, this would be a very expensive hard drive to operate. Even still, since science is cumulative knowledge, research like this will open doors to new developments later on down the road. It's unlikely that we'll be using DU hard drives anytime soon, but this may be very interesting in the future for, say, something like a space satellite collecting data from Neptune.

Just an FYI, depleted uranium is neither radioactive, nor is it explosive. DU rounds are simply super high velocity pencil-like rounds that punch holes in enemy armor. The DU round isn't explosive, but when you punch a hole at that speed and force, the metal liquefies, spraying the inside of the tank with the molten slag. It'll kill the crew instantly, and light anything it touches on fire, which is why it's so darn effective. So, really, enough with this idea that a hard drive made out of DU would explode upon crashing, or turn your balls into sand. It's called depleted uranium for a reason lol.
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Well i hate to say you are wrong, But DU does light on fire, is radioactive, it is tossed when its not outputting enough but it is still radioactive, Dose not liquifiy, It is self sharpening thats why it is a Armor percing round, That and it is very dense and heavy. Even with all of that you dont want to come into contact with DU because it is carcinogenic. so DU is radioactive, Cancerous and can burst into fire if the conditions are right.
 
Your right the government would never endanger or lie to the general population, especially when trying to win a war which might possibly entail various valuable resources.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=soldiers+depleted+uranium
Just look at the headlines for about the first 10 hits there.

In May 2006, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment ordering a comprehensive study on the effects of exposure to depleted uranium. The study, however, will only be conducted on U.S. soldiers.

Journalists have discovered that since 2003, parts of Baghdad have radiation levels 1,900 times higher than normal.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium#Health_considerations

Normal functioning of the kidney, brain, liver, heart, and numerous other systems can be affected by uranium exposure, because in addition to being weakly radioactive, uranium is a toxic metal. DU is less toxic than other heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury. It is weakly radioactive but remains radioactive because of its long half-life. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry states that: "to be exposed to radiation from uranium, you have to eat, drink, or breathe it, or get it on your skin."

However, the Institute of Nuclear Technology-Radiation Protection of Attiki, Greece, has noted that "the aerosol produced during impact and combustion of depleted uranium munitions can potentially contaminate wide areas around the impact sites or can be inhaled by civilians and military personnel." In a three week period of conflict in Iraq during 2003 it was estimated over 1000 tons of depleted uranium munitions were used. The U.S. Department of Defense claims that no human cancer of any type has been seen as a result of exposure to either natural or depleted uranium
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Just like the goverment claims that Fukushima poses no threat to human life, even though its been classified on the same scale disaster as Chernobyl. Luckily for them, like Chernobyl, most of the deaths related to the disaster will be from long drawn out deaths from cancer, which will be extremely if not impossible to blame on radiactive particles as the cause. Thus no liability.
 
somecallmeTim said:
Once they overcome the "2 degrees above absolute zero" temperature issue we'll be rockin' lots of storage.
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Seriously. The amount of energy required to hit the incredibly low temp would out weight any benefits of storage. You also need a pretty exotic mix of gases to get below that temp and the stability of the molecule structure wouldn't last a nano second if the temp fluxed at all.

In reality its a very distance possibility but as it was mentioned it might get different groups of scientists to look for a different molecule structure that mimics that same structure but without the crazy requirement of being supercooled below absolute zero.
 
This looks to me like a stepping stone discovery. Scientists and researchers will use this to come up with a practical, room-temperature application. If memristors don't replace all other types of memory and storage first...
 
Then when we're done with them we can shoot the hard drives at people in third world countries.
 
Well, with the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository officially dead, (thanks congress) and the 10,000 metric tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste being store onsite in the US, they have to come up with new ways of getting rid of it. Moving it all to the Middle East one depleted uranium tank round at a time is obviously taking too long.
 
bucket said:
Well, with the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository officially dead, (thanks congress) and the 10,000 metric tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste being store onsite in the US, they have to come up with new ways of getting rid of it. Moving it all to the Middle East one depleted uranium tank round at a time is obviously taking too long.
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Depleted Uranium is not "used up uranium fuel".
 
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