Interesting Items...

[MikeSh]

http://license.umn.edu/technologies...ternative-to-rare-earth-and-neodymium-magnets

Sounds great. But it's a sad reflection of the current age that I have to add "if it's true".

 

[MikeSh]

Now, if this could be made strong enough to deflect asteroids ...
http://www.newsweek.com/nasa-barrier-earth-artificial-protect-space-weather-611356

 

[EEPhil]

Now, if this could be made strong enough to deflect asteroids ...

I would prefer something that could deflect haemorrhoids.

 

[Deleted member 473]

I would prefer something that could deflect haemorrhoids.

There are piles of things to do that.

 

[EEPhil]

There are piles of things to do that.

I tried some preparations (A-G, I think). I wonder what I should try next?

What I really meant was something to stop them, not treat them.

 

[Black Hole]

http://license.umn.edu/technologies...ternative-to-rare-earth-and-neodymium-magnets

I don't get it. The properties are still based on the spin of an iron atom, and fewer of them than in solid iron, so I don't understand how it could be as powerful as the rare earths.

 

[Trev]

so I don't understand how it could be as powerful as the rare earths

So don't worry about it BH, there are loads of things that I don't understand too.

 

[Deleted member 473]

I tried some preparations (A-G, I think). I wonder what I should try next?

What I really meant was something to stop them, not treat them.

Piles? Freeze them.

 

[Deleted member 473]

I don't get it. The properties are still based on the spin of an iron atom, and fewer of them than in solid iron, so I don't understand how it could be as powerful as the rare earths.

Fe…16N…2

I guess it may be to do with how the electrons are shared.

 

[trog]

I tried some preparations (A-G, I think). I wonder what I should try next?

What I really meant was something to stop them, not treat them.

Tie a length of coloured thread around each one, it will not stop them but at least you will become the envy of all the Bronies

 

[MikeSh]

Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts
“This is supposed to last for eternity,” said Åsmund Asdal at the Nordic Genetic Resource Centre


Oops

 

[Ezra Pound]

Not quite so headline grabbing but to article does go on to say :-

"The meltwater froze in the entrance tunnel and did not infiltrate the seed bank itself,"

 

[EEPhil]

I hope NordGen have a backup storage facility. Just one copy = probie mistake.

 

[MikeSh]

Not quite so headline grabbing but to article does go on to say :-

But the bigger problem, as I see it, is that the whole design assumed that the area would remain frozen regardless of what happened to humanity. Less than a decade has passed and that assumption has been found to have a rather big hole in it - even if water isn't actually pouring through it just yet

 

[Deleted member 473]

Climate change.

 

[Trev]

More like Brexit.

 

[EEPhil]

More like Brexit.

or Trump, or the Russians, or N. Korea.
Wouldn't it have to be Swexit or Dexit from the EU or Nexit from the EEA, not Brexit? Can't see that it can be our fault that the Nordic countries made a bodge of it.

 

[Ezra Pound]

But the bigger problem, as I see it, is that the whole design assumed that the area would remain frozen regardless of what happened to humanity. Less than a decade has passed and that assumption has been found to have a rather big hole in it - even if water isn't actually pouring through it just yet

Agreed, there are only 5 of these seed banks and as you say, it didn't take long for one of them to become endangered itself

 

[Deleted member 473]

It was all fake news.

http://www.popsci.com/seed-vault-flooding

 

[Black Hole]

Accessing that link tried to download some kind of file called "$" to my PC!