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PostPosted: Sat, 3rd Sep 2011 09:30    Post subject: Supercomputers Allow First Detailed Milky Way Simulation
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/206146/20110830/milky-way-galaxy-model-eris-supercomputer-spiral-galaxy-simulation.htm

I love the text at the ending:

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This simulation was calculated in 8 months at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre at Manno, Switzerland .

It would take 570 years on a personal computer.


Science rulz Very Happy

"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
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thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found.

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