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    non-mechanical computer components and potential damage through vibrations

    A big part of the reason is that when you get to very small scales, large scale forces are pretty much the same everywhere. Imagine subjecting your house to a vibration with a wavelength of 10 meters. If you look at an object in your house that is one meter across, it will only be experiencing...
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    Potential Energy in a Gas Cylinder

    Here's a weird way of looking at that energy. The Tesla roadster has a 185kW engine (248hp). It doesn't produce 185kW throughout the RPM range, it rises with RPM, but lets assume it produces an average of 100kW throughout the range. This isn't accurate but it's close enough for some napkin...
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    iPhone transfer speeds on USB 3.0

    TL;DR at bottom. Out of curiosity and sheer bordem, I ran some tests to see if syncing an iPhone 3GS is any faster when run on a USB 3.0 port vs 2.0. I've seen some tests before where a USB 2.0 device can see small improvements when plugged into a USB 3.0 port, so I thought this was a...
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    How exactly does cell phone/tower bandwidth work?

    Thanks for the answer, very thorough. I've always noticed phones have ping times that vary widely even from one minute to the next, I suppose that explains why that is too. I asked this because I was trying to understand why all cell companies seem to basically give everyone the shaft when it...
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    How exactly does cell phone/tower bandwidth work?

    Googling this didn't find any useful answers, so I thought I'd try here. Town A has a single cell tower providing HSDPA (or other 3G/4G network type) at 14Mbits/sec. 3 smartphones download a movie, do all 3 users get 14Mbits? or is it split between them? Does it depend on the backend of the...
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    the 'new' gravity wave detector'

    I don't see how a stretched flatland would be able to detect the stretch with two perpendicular lasers. If the entire land is stretched, then so are the photons, which will hit the wall earlier due to their stretching, and arrive back at the laser sooner, due to the stretching. All of this...
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    From a scientific perspective is sentience fatally flawed?

    I've thought what the OP was saying was true for some time now.. As an extension of what you're saying, if you were to know the location and state of every elementary particle (I say that because lets face it, no one knows for sure what the most basic element of matter is) you could likely...