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[Urwumpe]

The real question is "can it be manufactured with photolithography?", to which the answer is almost certainly "no".

Creating something like that as a one-off in a lab is one thing. Being able to zap billions upon billions onto a silicon wafer quickly and cheaply is something else.

Today. Maybe this changes when the need is there to turn such basic research into something useful.

 

[Zandy12]

 

[jedidia]

https://www.elektormagazine.com/new...240442725&mc_cid=acadb9e845&mc_eid=8fdcb4d06f

Too late for a LirpaLoof?
don't know how they got the picture?

N.

Aren't there problems with quantum tuneling when transistors are placed too close together? It's impressive that it's only the size of an atom, but could you actually put them any closer to each other than the transistors we already have?

 

[Notebook]

We don't get many racehorses in here?

At these prices, I'm not surprised!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-45718390/runaway-race-horse-causes-chaos-in-french-bar

 

[jedidia]

We don't get many racehorses in here?

At these prices, I'm not surprised!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-45718390/runaway-race-horse-causes-chaos-in-french-bar

"A horse walks into a bar... turns out the punchline isn't funny." :lol:

 

[Notebook]

A Neutrino walks into bar...no one notices.

I'll get my coat.

N.

 

[Star Voyager]

If Shuttle contractors were NASCAR sponsors...

 

[Urwumpe]

But isn't the USA history already?

 

[Star Voyager]

But isn't the USA history already?

So is this gen 4 NASCAR body, they run gen 6's now. If I did the gen 6, I would've replaced USA with Jacobs Engineering and Craig Tech.

 

[Urwumpe]

So is this gen 4 NASCAR body, they run gen 6's now. If I did the gen 6, I would've replaced USA with Jacobs Engineering and Craig Tech.

OK, I seem to be much better informed about spaceflight industry than about cars running on oval courses. :lol:

 

[Linguofreak]

A Neutrino walks into bar...no one notices.

I'll get my coat.

N.

Quadrillions of neutrinos walk into each bar in the world every second. Your joke understates things by a couple orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude.

 

[martins]

BTW does somebody know a good example of a science fiction naval ship? Somehow all science fiction seems to be spacecraft. :blink:

As a result of my bike trip to Amsterdam last week (yey I made it - ~500km in 3days!) I have a contribution to this question (in the sense of naval=sea-going, rather than military): The "Sea of Tranquility" art installation in the Amsterdam Het Scheepvaartmuseum. It's about a fictional cruise liner, complete with an illuminated model in a mysteriously darkened room, artefacts and a _really_ weird accompanying video.

Edit: Here's the video:
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-pFw-IpE7M"]Sea Of Tranquility by Hans Op de Beeck | MOCAtv Presents The Poetics - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Notebook]

We Brits are good at understatement, except for this sentence of course.

N.

 

[RisingFury]

As a result of my bike trip to Amsterdam last week (yey I made it - ~500km in 3days!)

Sweet! My personal best so far has been 120 km ride, with about 1.5 km vertical difference.

 

[martins]

Sweet! My personal best so far has been 120 km ride, with about 1.5 km vertical difference.

Nice - vertical climbs are the one thing really hard to come by on a trip to Amsterdam :lol:, although the London - Dover leg went through the North Downs with at least a bit of elevation.

 

[Zandy12]

Orange you glad I didn't say banana?

 

[Marijn]

Voyager 2 is measuring an increase in cosmic rays since the end of august and at the current distance of nearly 18 billion km from the sun, it is expected to leave the solar system very soon.

Go Voyager 2!

 

[Notebook]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-45841771/humanoid-rescue-robot-learns-parkour

Boston Dynamics, where it all starts...

N.

 

[GLS]

From today's "Day in History", at the bottom of the main page: All the ladies like whiskers :rofl:

 

[jedidia]

That was a fun read, though I have to say that my lady doesn't like whiskers all that much...