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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 9330107" data-attributes="member: 710">I wondered about this, too. Apparently in the book, they used a similar method and got into more details about how it wokrks. But I haven't read the book, so I don't know the details.What I figured - they had a rough idea what kind of hard disks they might use, and what material they would have. The nano-wire does still impact energy and momentum on what it's hitting, only if it provides too much resistance does the wire cut through. (Probably something to do with the energy required to break the material bond compared to the energy required to drag the object or something?). Many things - like people, helicopters, ship hulls - are way too heavy to not be cut through. But smaller items - like a flash drive or hard disk would instead just be dragged around. The wires probably also need to be far apart enough so the drive fits between two lines of the wire at whatever is the worst angle for it. Maybe it was also fitted to the expected gauge of the ship and the deck heights - eventually it would fall to the floor and be safely between the wires. I guess the biggest gamble here is the hard disk stored in the server? Though if they knew the serverracks used, they could estimate the height there, too?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 9330107, member: 710"] I wondered about this, too. Apparently in the book, they used a similar method and got into more details about how it wokrks. But I haven't read the book, so I don't know the details. What I figured - they had a rough idea what kind of hard disks they might use, and what material they would have. The nano-wire does still impact energy and momentum on what it's hitting, only if it provides too much resistance does the wire cut through. (Probably something to do with the energy required to break the material bond compared to the energy required to drag the object or something?). Many things - like people, helicopters, ship hulls - are way too heavy to not be cut through. But smaller items - like a flash drive or hard disk would instead just be dragged around. The wires probably also need to be far apart enough so the drive fits between two lines of the wire at whatever is the worst angle for it. Maybe it was also fitted to the expected gauge of the ship and the deck heights - eventually it would fall to the floor and be safely between the wires. I guess the biggest gamble here is the hard disk stored in the server? Though if they knew the serverracks used, they could estimate the height there, too? [/QUOTE]

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