My FedEx, Still the Faster Connection than Internet
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Sometimes, to send data, FedEx is faster than normal electronics mean over internet. To the modern world it is often called sneakernet by physically carrying removable media in place of transferring the information over a computer network.
When you need to transfer very large amounts of data over the internet, sooner or later you will hit a limit where it will actually be faster to send that data on disks over regular mail (often called sneakernet). Internet transfer rates are simply not enough for large data sets according to royalpingdom.
Question: What is the fastest way to send 1 Terabyte (1,000 ,000 ,000 ,000 bytes) or 120 terabytes of data, the equivalent of 123,000 iPod shuffles about 30 million songs?
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Bizarre China: Ghost Weddings and Corpse Traders
Interesting StuffThe Chinese are paranoid about the afterworld. They are obsessed with appeasing the souls of loved ones who have passed away by burning paper money, replicas of cars and even hell passports to ease the way of these departed family members. This is bizarre enough but another superstitious belief will leave you gaping with disbelief. The Chinese also hold weddings for the dead and buy corpse brides for their deceased sons. Thus, there is a network of corpse traders who ply their trade in China.
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My Dubai, Amazing Architectural 360 Degrees Rotating Tower at Every Floor
Interesting StuffIn another architectural world wonder for Dubai , a planned 68 storey tower that will allow each of its floor to revolve 360 degrees in every 90 minutes and the best part is that each floor can rotate independently.
In skyscraper-crazy Dubai, tall isn’t enough. In a design to be unveiled today in the oil-rich emirate, David Fisher, an Italian-Israeli architect, has dreamed up a 68-story combination hotel, apartment and office tower where the floors would rotate 360 degrees. Each floor would rotate independently, creating a constantly changing architectural form according to Wall Street Journal.
Each storey of the tower is build like a doughnut shape and attach to the center core which will house elevators , emergency exits and other utilities. So how each floor can rotate independently is by using wind turbines placed between which generates needed power , and finally give each occupant to have 360 degrees great viewing. However, the spinning is much slower than what the video shown.
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