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See How These Computer Parts Operate In Very Cold Weather
We did wonder if these computers were able to melt the ice around them or be actually capable of powering up the computer in such low temperatures.Chinese content creator and hardware enthusiast 苏baka (for the purposes of this article, we will be calling her Baka) decided to see if seasonal temperature changes can have an effect on a PC system’s internal temperature while under heavy load. She decided to test her gaming computer outdoors in a minus 63-degree Celsius weather.The temperature drop is part of a recent record cold snap in northern China. Baka tested a computer containing an Intel i9-13900K and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 outside over two nights. If these components were being used, they can reach temperatures up to 100 degrees Celsius. So the question now is: will it be easier for the computer if the temperature surrounding it would be low? This is what Baka aimed to find out. Surprisingly, the PC didn’t get damaged at all. The CPU was able to reach 6.18 GHz while hovering around 15C, and the graphics card maintained -40C with a hotspot at -18C. The content creator also reassured that no hardware was damaged in her tests. Image credit: Pixabay#computers #China #Nvidia #GeForce #PC
This Ancient Chinese Poem Can Be Read in 8,000 Different Ways
Su Hui was a Fourth Century CE Chinese poet who lived during the chaotic “Sixteen Kingdoms” period of China’s past. Only one of her poems survives to modern times, but it’s a doozy. It’s commonly called “Star Gauge”. In a 2012 article in the poetry magazine Welling out of Silence, David Hinton, an American poet and scholar of Chinese poetry, describes it.It’s an angry and heartbroken love poem. Su Hui’s husband, a government official, took a concubine when he was transferred to a post far away from home. Su Hui expressed her affection for her husband in this poem. When he read it, tradition holds, he dismissed his concubine and returned to his wife.Because of the structure of the language, Chinese poems can be read in any direction, which led to the development of the genre of “reversible poems”. Su Hui helpfully embroidered the poem in five colors and multiple blocks, which add to the number of directions in which her poem can be read.-via Amanda Brennan#poetry #China
China's First Moon Rock
China’s Chang’e-5 spacecraft brought back the country’s first lunar rocks in December 2020. The samples are the first brought back to Earth since NASA’s Apollo and the Soviet Union’s Luna missions more than 40 years ago. With that long period of time, the arrival of these rare specimens motivated many lunar experts in China to conduct research studies on and about the samples. For reference, the Chang’e-5 recovered basalt. Basalt is a loose volcanic material from the vast lava plain in Moon’s northern region. Some of the collected specimens were given by the China National Space Administration to 31 scientific projects that applied for them. This could be the cause of approximately half a dozen papers published in the past six months regarding the lunar rock samples. Most of these studies were presented at the Lunar And Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas. The material collected by the spacecraft confirmed that the Moon was still active a billion years later than the samples from the Apollo mission suggested. While an established timeline as to the lunar volcanic activity is known, the reason behind the activity remains a mystery. Image credit: NASA#space #lunarresearch #Moon #China #science #Change5
MIT Researchers Developed a $4 Solar-Powered Desalination System out of Everyday Materials
A team of researchers at MIT and in China developed a desalination system that is more efficient and less expensive than previously established methods. The hope is that it will help solve shortages of water in different areas of the globe. The researchers focused on creating a design that also deals with the accumulation of salt over time. “The challenge has been the salt fouling issue, that people haven’t really addressed. So, we see these very attractive performance numbers, but they’re often limited because of longevity. Over time, things will foul,” Evelyn Wang, one of the researchers in the study, said. The resulting apparatus is a layered system. A dark material is at the top to absorb the sun’s heat, and a thin layer of water above a perforated layer of material sits atop the designated container of the salty water. The perforated material, made of polyurethane, has holes that are 2.5 millimeters in diameter, which is what the researchers deemed to be the optimal size that allows for a natural convective circulation between the warmer upper layer of water and the colder reservoir below. This prevents the salt from accumulating. Further work and testing would be required to test the device in large settings and long runs, according to Hadi Ghasemi, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston.Image credit: Wang, et.al via MIT News #desalination #system #MIT #China
China's Longest Underwater Highway Tunnel Has a Colorful LED Ceiling to Prevent Driver Fatigue
China has just opened its longest underwater highway tunnel to date, and it has a colorful LED ceiling specially built to prevent driver fatigue.The 10.79-kilometer tunnel is located under Lake Taihu, Jiangsu Province, just 50 kilometers shy of Shanghai. Construction started on January 9th, 2018. Four years, 9.9 billion yuan ($1.56 billion) and 2 million cubic meters of concrete later, the Taihu tunnel is officially complete and open to vehicle traffic.At 17.45 meters wide, the two-way tunnel houses six lanes and is predicted to reduce traveling time between Shanghai and Nanjing, Jiangsu's capital. It is also expected to segue traffic from the crowded cities next to Lake Taihu to those located in the Yangtze River delta area where it will help boost economic development.Image: FeatureChina#tunnel #LED #China
"Bionic" Fish-Scale Armor Made of Leather Found in 2,500 Year Old Chinese Burial Site
Researchers discovered fish-scale armor that is an early version of bionics. The armor was found in a 2,500-Year-Old Chinese burial site. The military garment was made of more than 5,000 leather scales, which make it look like the overlapping scales of a fish. According to lead researcher Patrick Wertmann, the armor is “a light, highly efficient one-size-fits-all defensive garment for soldiers of a mass army."The fish-like design is not an aesthetic choice, but more of a reinforcement of defense. The overlapping leather scales "strengthen the human skin for better defense against blow, stab and shot," said study co-researcher Mayke Wagner, the scientific director of the Eurasia Department of the German Archeological Institute and head of its Beijing office.Image credit: Dongliang Xu/Turfan Museum, Patrick Wertmann#armor #China #bionics #history #archaeology
Woman Stuck for Days at a Blind Date's House due to China's Sudden Covid Lockdown
A blind date ended up longer than necessary thanks to a sudden Covid lockdown.Wang, a 30-year-old Chinese woman, met a blind date for a home-cooked dinner date in Zhengzhou, China. During the date, it was announced that the place would be under lockdown. This was a response to avoid local outbreaks of Covid within the country. Wang was now forced to stay in her date’s house for days. The woman shared her experiences in cohabiting, with basically a stranger, on social media. She documented her date cooking meals for her, doing house chores, and working on his laptop. The updates went viral, turning her and her date into a top trending topic on the Internet. "During quarantine, I feel that apart from him being reticent like a wooden mannequin, everything else about him is pretty good. He cooks, cleans the house, and works. Although his cooking isn't very good, he's still willing to spend time in the kitchen, I think that's great," she told The Paper, a state-run news outlet.Image screenshot via CNN #unexpected #dates #blinddates #cohabitation #lockdown #China
China's "Artificial Sun" Nuclear Fusion Tokamak Reactor Set a New Record by Running for 1,056 Seconds at High Plasma Temperature
A world record and a scientific marvel at the same time. China’s ‘artificial sun’ set a new world record by running for 1,056 seconds at high plasma temperature. This total runtime is the longest ever for an experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST) fusion energy reactor.This was a result of a new round of testing by the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Plasma Physics. The reactor was created to mimic a fusion reaction that happens in the Sun by using hydrogen and deuterium gases as fuel. This is why it has received the moniker of ‘artificial sun.’ While breaking records is a nice thing, these tests and experiments were done to provide insights into plasma physics research that is crucial to establishing industrial-sized reactors that they hope will generate clean energy.Image credit: CFP#science #physics #nuclearreactors #fusion #plasmaphysics #China
This McDonald's Has Exercise Tables For Diners to Use
Gizmodo informs us that a McDonald’s restaurant in what I think is the city of Jieyang, China has exercise bikes inside for diners to use while pouring in the high fat food.Here’s my question: how fast must a person pedal in order to eat a Big Mac and be calorie-neutral? A lot depends on a person’s individual metabolism, but let’s say that vigorous pedaling burns 391 calories per half hour. A Big Mac has 550 calories, so a diner could remain calorie-neutral if eating a Big Mac in 42 minutes while pedaling at high speed.But I’m not sure that it would be worth the effort.-via Technabob#McDonalds #China #exerciseImage:McDonald’s China
The Origin of the 4,000-Year-Old Mummies Found Buried in Boats in the Chinese Desert of Tarim Basin
In this part of the Tarim Basin in China lie boat-shaped coffins which contain the naturally preserved remains of people from the Bronze Age. Archaeologists have been very well acquainted with these people physically, but their identities and why they're there have been a puzzle to them. Thanks to genomic analysis, said archaeologists now have an answer to the decades-long mystery.Some thought that these people were originally from the west, thousands of kilometers away from the site, and they had just brought their farming practices over when they passed away. The analysis, however, reveals that these were indigenous people who adopted farming methods from their neighbors.The mummies are said to be over 2,000 years old. It was a time of significance in the Xinjiang region, as it was when ancient communities began to switch from being hunter-gatherers to farmers.Learn more about this over at Nature.(Image Credit: Wenying Li, Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology)#Archaeology #Xinjiang #China #AncientCemetery
Love after Death: Two Skeletons Found Hugging One Another in an Ancient Tomb in China
Archaeologists discovered a double burial in an ancient cemetery unearthed at a construction site in Datong, Shanxi Province, China. During an excavation held in 2020, they discovered two skeletons hugging each other at a grave site - one of the skeletons even wore a silver ring.The skeletons were identified as a man and a woman in an eternal embrace. “This discovery is a unique display of human emotion of love in a burial, offering a rare glimpse people's views towards love, life, death, and afterlife in northern China during a time of intense cultural and ethnic exchange,” said Quanchao Zhang of the Institute of Anthropology at Xiamen University in a study detailing the findings.The researchers noted that the couple likely lived during the Northern Wei dynasty (386-534) which was a politically turbulent time. The discovery is a remarkable display that love can surpass many troubles, and perhaps, even death.Image: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology#archaeology #anthropology #loverstomb #skeleton #burial #doubleburial #love #humanemotion #China #NortherWeiDynasty
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