On Apr 4, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
> > At 09:52 -0700 4/4/09, Al Poulin wrote: >> On Apr 4, 2:25 am, Kyle Hansen <pi...@speakeasy.net> wrote: >>> On 4/3/09 11:00 PM, "Steve R" <mailing.lists.2...@gmail.com> >>> Broadcast into >>> the ether: >>> >>>>> I meant to ask before ... is there any danger that a hard drive >>>>> spinning at 7200rpm will flip out and take off across a room? >>>>> shouldn't they be screwed down to something fixed? >>> >>> Do record players? Because that is basically what a hard disc is. >>> >>> Kyle Hansen >> >> Telling us how old your are? > > Naah. He would have pointed out that the energy in the spinning disk > is proportional to the squares of the diameters and the angular > velocities. Ignoring the mass difference: > > Energy in spinning disk = (7200 / 78)^2 * (5 / 13)^2 * energy in > spinning album. > > The hard disk wins by well over 1000 times. How old am I? Revealing one's age by being familiar with vinyl records ... aren't they on the come back? Might cloud the insinuating circumstances ... Still wondering about the force surrounding the spinning HD plates ... as long as the plates stay alignrd and don't crash ... everything's probably A-OK ? Ooops ... a reference to the first flights in space ... How old am I? Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
