Circumcision: It’s Not For Pussies, Y’know!
Yes, boys and girls, that’s real bird dung on the rim of that rooftop. Horrifying, isn’t it?
Back when I worked for a living - before that fateful day I got old - I used to piddle around with a bit of solid-state physics. Y’know - just every once in a while ,to change the pace. A set of fully-scripted Ebers-Mole equations - or the Shickman-Hodges set for field-effect transister behavior - and a cute little poontang with an appetite sitting on my lap was all I needed to satisfy my simple needs. Those were the simple times.
Anyway, one day it happened: some of us guys wondered - the way guys always wonder - what minimum number of atoms (including dopants and interconnects) were unavoidably necessary if one was going to make the smallest possible bipolar junction transister.
We never figured it out - mainly because at the time we were drunk to the point of physical incapacitation, and stuffed with pizza to the point of physical illness at one of my boss’s Fuck-This-Shit-Its-Friday gatherings at the Olympic Pizza that used to be on upper Greenville in Dallas. Their hamburger ‘n jalapeños pizza was famous for burning your entire alimentary canal both coming and going!
Well, here it is:
The whole article is here - at New Scientist - where the science flows like wine!
I’m gonna “paint” that thing so you can more clearly see the actual device:
See! There’s the little fucker! Yeah - I know - its a FET structure, not a bipolar device, but who’s counting?
It’s arguable where the top gate wire starts and the actual Gate structure ends, since the Gate is just metal in proximity to the D-S structure. But that’s only common sense.
I count about 45 atoms. That falls well into the scientific category of “Itty-bitty”.
Now, how about this photo:
I think that is the Illinois river that’s there in his front yard. Got the photo from over at Newsbusters. - where the Liberals and MSM are always wincing!
And the above is … well … it’s for what ails ya!
So is this!
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May 4, 2008 at 12:41 pm
The gate thingy. What you’re talking about… you don’t mean to imply that there are electrons involved, do you? Because I don’t believe in them. Can’t see them, ergo they don’t exist. See how simple my world is?
The guy with the house… whaddya want to bet the next 100 year flood that comes along is going to leave him bitching for federal aid money to rebuild?
Last thing, when you napalm your alimentary canal with chilies you are supposed to also eat ice cream, so that when you have the fire shits the next morning you at least have the ice cream to look forward to.
May 4, 2008 at 1:28 pm
These are different electrons, LK. They do the bidding of EE’s and a few physicists. Those other electrons don’t exist. Bohr was totally full of shit, don’tcha know…
Funny thing - I’ve seen houses just like that along Mo Bottom Rd near the river. Usually they’re fairly well off - the owners, that is.
No one ever told me about the ice cream. I always figured the later pain was just the price I had to pay for good pizza.
May 4, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Ever since helping dad with an electrostatic air filter and hitting a “high voltage” wire, I stopped believing in them. The very idea that something could exist solely to cause pain is offensive so I stopped believing in them.
I suppose Hillary is next.
May 4, 2008 at 1:42 pm
God, I hope so. If you disbelieve hard enough, she will disappear.
When I was a young teen and just getting into electronics, I disassembled a big B&W TV that had no sound and the tuner was kaput. I carefully took the picture tube out and set it aside, and then decided to wipe the dust off it so I wouldn’t make so much of a mess. I accidentally got a wad of dust in the Hi-V cathode hole (the one up on the side of the tube).
Like a fool I stuck my finger in it to wipe the dust out. Note that it had been turned on not 15 minutes earlier, and was fully charged up. There was a big bright light and I woke up about six feet away on the floor.
May 4, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I had been watching him untwist some wires with what I thought was his bare fingers and surmised that the power was off. So, to be helpful to dear ol’ dad, I reached out, grabbed a pair and . There’s dad leaning over me asking if I’m ok and me saying “Can I go back and wait in the truck, please?”
I hadn’t seen the pair of diagonal cutters he was using to untwist the wires with.
Sumbitch HURT.
So what is the voltage on a TV tube? 15KV? Assuming I believe in electrons, of course.
May 4, 2008 at 2:34 pm
15-20kv for B&W - a bit higher for color, I believe.
May 4, 2008 at 6:23 pm
By the way, the latest Sci Am rag has a neat article on graphene. If you are interested I can PDF it for you. It’s cool and noteworthy because of the wild fact that the sheets are like DEVOID of voids and impurity substitutions in the matrix.
Wayfreakingcool.
May 4, 2008 at 6:32 pm
That flat transistor I posted about is (I think) fabricated on graphene.
May 4, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Well gawrsh, M’Goo. I reckon yer right. So don’t send?
May 4, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Oh, send it! I appreciate it! send to the crumbsock182 (at)(yahoo)(dot)(com) address if you don’t mind.
May 4, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Hee,hee! I just saw this headline:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080502094224.htm
and thought of the old joke about the Pollock Space Program sending a space mission to the sun. When it was gently pointed out to them that their astronauts would burn up on the sun, they declare, “We’ll go at night!”
God, I love stupid!
May 4, 2008 at 9:49 pm
(sigh)
Ok, this, like anybody who says “Let’s fire our nukular waste right into the sun” just irritates the crap out of me. It’s gonna take an order of magnitude more shielding than anything they have thought up before and the delta-V is just ridiculous.
Look at it this way… Mercury at it’s CLOSEST, the intensity of the sun is 11 times that of earth orbit and they want to go to 4 million miles (vs 28M)?
I’m not saying this wouldn’t be cool to work on, but I’m thinking bang vs. buck tradeoffs say that the cost of a $750M budget (one third of which is just for a rocket ride) could be spent in quite a few high gain lower risk projects.
Ah what do I know, anyway? I do know that it was a bear designing for Mercury and put a lot of us on long hours. And WE were under the shield.
May 5, 2008 at 10:14 am
Heh, that pigeon has a dart through its head. Stupid pigeon.
May 6, 2008 at 7:13 am
Well I didn’t put it there. With all that birdshit around, it might get infected. tThen he’ll be in trouble, for sure.
May 6, 2008 at 3:54 pm
That Avatar is NOT mine!? But I was not logged in as admin when I wrote it. Does that make a difference? Who knows? Why am I asking you? Who are you, anyway?
I gotta get a real mouse and keyboard for this pos laptop.
I’ll be home tomorrow.