[rescue] Oh no! This poor Origin server.....

[Dave McGuire]

On Apr 6, 2004, at 10:27 PM, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>>>  Hmm, I honestly have no idea.  I've never played with anything like
>>>> this in that sort of environment.  I don't really know how large the
>>>> field of sensitivity is.
>>>
>>> OK.
>>>
>>> It would have to be narrow to work around a wreck.
>>>
>>> Now tie this back with the part of the thread talking about reading
>>> magnetic domains on a hard drive, most of which are now smaller than
>>> the
>>> wavelength of visible light...
>>
>>   Ehhhh...we weren't talking about using proton-precession 
>> gradiometers
>> to read bits from hard drive platters...
>
> Ehhhh... I wasn't sure I said we were.
>
> I was just finding it interesting to contrast worrying about the effect
> of a nearby wreck and reading a magnetic domain smaller than the
> wavelength of visible light.

   Well ok.  Only a few orders of magnitude apart. ;)

         -Dave

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