{"id":4074,"date":"2006-02-27T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2009-10-19T06:29:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T12:29:44","slug":"harddrive-london-harddrive-beijing-harddrive-moscow-harddrive-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/harddrive-london-harddrive-beijing-harddrive-moscow-harddrive-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Harddrive London. Harddrive Beijing. Harddrive Moscow. Harddrive NYC."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geomagnetic Planetary Hard-Drives would be all the rage and extremely fantastic.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <a href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/geomagnetic-harddrive.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">&#8230;it occurred to me that if the U-Bahn system could somehow be hooked up to massive, earth-anchored magnets, and made, therefore, to produce a magnetic field of its own, that you could transform all of Berlin into a geomagnetic harddrive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a sail traps the wind, a planetary harddrive would use geomagnetism.<\/p>\n<p>Provided constant motion on behalf of the trains, I thought, and given absolutely gigantic magnets of the right polarity and location, Berlin could start producing its own magnetic field \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which meant that any city with a subway could be transformed into a harddrive. Harddrive London. Harddrive Beijing. Harddrive Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s obvious even to me that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have to do quite a lot more than just bury some magnets underground in order to transform a city into a harddrive \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d need a shovel, for instance, and perhaps some strong anti-manic drugs; but my point is that if Christopher Wren could build a tower that simultaneously memorialized the Great Fire of London even as it acted as a scientific device, then perhaps you could turn urban infrastructure itself into a kind of working scientific apparatus.<\/p>\n<p>You could turn all of Berlin into a geomagnetic harddrive&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine the transfer rate when you link them.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if you could go interplanetary.<\/p>\n<p>Harddrive The Solar System.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=1911\" class=\"external external_icon\">warren ellis<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geomagnetic Planetary Hard-Drives would be all the rage and extremely fantastic. &#8230;it occurred to me that if the U-Bahn system could somehow be hooked up to massive, earth-anchored magnets, and made, therefore, to produce a magnetic field of its own, that you could transform all of Berlin into a geomagnetic harddrive. As a sail traps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,9,8,77,6],"tags":[103,1087,1660],"class_list":["post-4074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-freaking-neat","category-science","category-technology","category-the-future","category-world","tag-awesome","tag-live-for-science-die-for-science","tag-planetary-harddrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}