Dr Wingnut

Day: September 20, 2004

  • Data-transfer rates just keep getting faster

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    A recent Internet2 experiment by scientists at the California Institute of Technology and CERN transferred data at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second — the first test to break the 100-petabit meter per second mark.  The team hopes to have greater speeds in place by 2007, when CERN’s Large Hadron Collider goes online. More…What’s…

  • Old age

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    An old farmer in Kansas had owned a large farm with a nice pond in the back 40.  It was fixed up nice: picnic tables, horseshoe courts, and some apple and peach trees.One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the pond and look it over, as he hadn’t been there for a…

  • Discovery

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    Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.Albert von Szent-Gyorgy