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|12.15.04 @ 9:15PM|#
Did you mean "jiggy"?
|12.15.04 @ 9:59PM|#
Normally "jiggy" is the correct spelling. (I know this because I'm totally down with the hip-hop scene, dawg. I even own a DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince tape!)
But I believe Tim is alluding to the the "gigaton" and "gigawatt" references sprinkled throughout the article.
|12.15.04 @ 10:56PM|#
Numerical prefixes for large numbers:
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/large.html
I'm at a loss as to how to use "duotrigintillion" (10^99) in a hip-hop sentence.
Help.
|12.16.04 @ 12:15AM|#
What are the chances we'll have fusion up and running by 2050?
|12.16.04 @ 2:06AM|#
Even if someone figures out how to make fusion work, we may not have the technology to implement it. See, we keep passing all these new environmental regulations. It's to the point where the gov't doesn't even have to pass a law, they just have to hint, and US industry jumps.
One of the latest disasters is "lead free solder". Lead free solder grows what are called "tin whiskers". They're like staligtites and stalagmites and basically, they spontaneously grow out of lead free solder. End result is shorted out circuit boards.
Think: shorted out circuit boards in computers, TV's, appliances, auto's, *airlines* for Christ's sake.....
We've known for decades that so long as there's at least 3% lead in solder, it doesn't grow tin whiskers. Now, we have entire materials engineering conferences where everybody talks about tin whiskers and says "gee, I wish I knew what to do about it".
Oooh, I know! Use lead! Oop, excuse me.
The EPA is looking hard at chromium. That could kill off all kinds of technology.
This crap is NOT science.
Grrrr.....
|12.17.04 @ 2:22PM|#
"Presented by two oilmen..."