Harder Drive: Hard drives we didnt want or need

In this video we make and evaluate several hard drives that we didn t want. Drawing some inspiration from vexing current events, we find that creative, structured thought on adjacent (but frivolous) problems is a sort of digestive act, and one that is ultimately laxative. Paper, source code, ringtones (and for a limited time, the data and viewer from pinging the whole internet): Errata (thanks to all pedantic viewers who catch this stuff): I got the escape velocity off by a factor of 1000 It s 11 km, sec, not 11, 000 km, sec. I think the other calculations are correct; I just mistook a period for a comma in my blearyeyed latenight editing. I got the size of the genome wrong due to a very silly bug from blearyeyed latenight programming. It is 29903 base pairs, which can be stored in an economysized 7476 bytes. For SIGBOVIK 2022