MM Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 OK. If you have a 1gb memory card (brand new) blank staright from the box, and you fill it with photos, will it weigh more than when it was blank? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KPV4 Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 You have either got up too early, or you are going to bed too late Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyR Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 Of course, unless the photos have been blown up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maidment78 Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 Depends, Photos of flying birds weigh less than photos of perching ones,,, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garymc Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 Yes. Sure the internet gets heavier every day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MM Posted July 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 In binary, which is heavier? '0' or '1 0'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agusta Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 The card is already filled with 0's and 1's (well 0's only if completely blank), so the answer is no! ( 0's and 1's weigh the same ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlander Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 For GS I know it's Friday but are you that bored already, so early in the day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick miller Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 I'm sure I read or heard someplace that someone (not too vague for you yet?) weighed a blank hard drive and then filled it with data, weighed it again and it weighed a tiny bit more, suggesting that data had a weight. It sounded like a complete load of bullocks to me at the time but... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexr Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 Here is another one. If a jumbo with 300 passengers is in level flight, and the passengers all jump at once does it go up, because it no longer supports the weight of passengers or down due to Newtonian laws of physics where the force of all the people jumping pushes the plane in a downward direction........... or do I just need a good stiff drink and a decent nights sleep? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agusta Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 Here is another one. If a jumbo with 300 passengers is in level flight, and the passengers all jump at once does it go up, because it no longer supports the weight of passengers or down due to Newtonian laws of physics where the force of all the people jumping pushes the plane in a downward direction........... or do I just need a good stiff drink and a decent nights sleep? Similar to this: http://www.yourdiscovery.com/video/mythbus...-a-truck/?cc=US Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guinea Fowl Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 This reminds me, me and the wife once had a very long and unusual argument. It started like this, late one Saturday night we ran out of sugar and I cant stand tea or coffee without sugar. There was no way we were going to get dressed and look for a place that sell sugar that time of the night. No problem said the wife we have icing sugar, I said to her to only put one and a half spoons of the icing sugar in me tea. As I stood there I noticed that she just disobeyed a direct order by putting two spoon full`s in instead of the one and a half that I instructed her to do, "That`s not right I said" she looked at me and said what not right? I said to her that you just put in two sugars instead of the one and a half, she said, well you normally drink two bloody sugars in your tea why suddenly change it. I said to her that the icing sugar is finer then normal sugar granules and that means that there are less air pockets if you like between the granules meaning that one and a half spoon full`s of icing sugar is the same as two with normal sugar. **** me, the argument that followed was one hell of a drama, because neither of us can accept to be wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexr Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 Similar to this: http://www.yourdiscovery.com/video/mythbus...-a-truck/?cc=US Now I understand this and it makes sense that lift generated by the by a downward force of air that has to exert a higher force than the object it is lifting to overcome the inertia of the object will by newtons third law cause no change in the weight of the truck. However if the pigeons were exposed to a head wind at a speed that allowed the generation of lift in a similar way to a fixed wing aircraft ( ie if the truck were in motion) where the more rapid passage of air over the upper surface of the wing produces a partial vacuum that 'sucks' the craft into the air, rather than the lift being generated by a downward force. Would the same conclusion be reached ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchieboy Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 What is it with Fridays? Is everyone having brain cell overloads and going loopy? Or am I the only sane member left on planet earth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzy Fudd Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 guys, its friday, stop trying to fry your brain cells and go out and kill them with alcohol instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSPUK Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 It's obviously Friday in the council offices - the rest of us are graftin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexr Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 It's obviously Friday in the council offices - the rest of us are graftin But not so hard that you can't take time to read this thread hay ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chemical Al Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 There are only 10 types of people in the world — those who understand binary, and those who don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MM Posted July 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 There are only 10 types of people in the world —those who understand binary, and those who don't. :lol: id had rather a large amount of coffee this morning, and began asking myself daft questions. I now know that the information on a memory card is just a fixed change of electric current, which alters the make up of the number sequence that makes up the colours. as electricity weighs 0, then a memory card that is full, weighs the same as an empty one. Get it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Bb Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 Use semi-colons instead of colons, they only weigh half as much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSPUK Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 Alex Employed by state now - done my 40 yrs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlistairB Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 :lol: id had rather a large amount of coffee this morning, and began asking myself daft questions. I now know that the information on a memory card is just a fixed change of electric current, which alters the make up of the number sequence that makes up the colours. as electricity weighs 0, then a memory card that is full, weighs the same as an empty one. Get it? MM, Given that elecricity is energy, and energy = mass x constant squared, then surely, electricity must have a mass, however, it can be argued that mass is not weight. How much a 1 weighs as opposed to a 0 is a question for someone far brighter than me! But apparently the photon that carries the 'force' of electricty does have a weight but it is neglible. That's my google time exhausted for one day! Cheers AB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexr Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 Alex Employed by state now - done my 40 yrs well done that man Enjoy the rest, I know I am looking forward to mine, only another 17 years to go....... and climbing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MM Posted July 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 time for another coffee i think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonno 357 Posted July 9, 2010 Report Share Posted July 9, 2010 I'm at work tonight I'll weigh my Xd card on one of the electronic balances in one the labs. I think they are accurate to 1000th of a gram ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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