-196˚C ?
That should test those server-room fans to their limit.
Nano-tech scientists have managed to create the world’s smallest hard disk. The 500TB/inch2 disk can store a kilobyte of memory in a few tiny chlorine atoms, according to new research published in Nature Nanotechnology. Atomic memory is an attractive idea as only a few nanometres of space are needed to store a bit. A team of …
Between five hundred thousand to two million cuneiform clay tablets survived the millennia because they were baked by (accidental) fire. There is plenty of room at the bottom as Feynman said to store a huge amount of data on clay-like material.
Mine is the one with the matchbox in the pocket.
"To switch an chlorine and vacancy pair, the STM tip zaps the space in between the pair and excites a chlorine atom to make the jump to fill a hole, whilst it leaves another in its wake"
Heat it to get it to bond, leaves empty space (which is required), interprets the empty space,... and moves the bonded atom to the empty space? Seriously, this stuff is way over my head. I suddenly feel the need to change my life to full-redneck so I can be oblivious to the rest of the world, thus restoring my superiority complex.