Michio Kaku

Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. But within the coming decades, we will understand dark matter, perhaps test string theory, find planets which can harbor life, and maybe have Brain 2.0, i.e. our consciousness on a disk which will survive even after we die.

American Physicist

Ridley Scott

I don't go to the cinema often anymore - I'd rather just pop in a disk and get the biggest monitor you've got, and if the quality is superb, I can watch a film, and if I don't like it I can pop it out.

British Director

Ella Maillart

Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.

Swiss Writer

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

To primitive man, the sky was wonderful, mysterious and awesome, but he could not even dream of what was within the golden disk or silver points of light so far beyond his reach.

American Scientist

B. B. King

I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.

American Musician

Bill Gates

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

American Businessman

Fran Lebowitz

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

American Journalist

Debra Fischer

There may be hundreds of small seed planets - or planetesimals - which grow in the disk of matter around a star.

Peter Sunde

I started off copying disks on my computer when I was eight or nine.

Swedish Businessman

Steve Wozniak

Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.

Refers to items resembling a flat, circular plate, often used casually.

Physical Shape

Used in sports like discus or ultimate frisbee to describe the object thrown.

Sporting Goods

Not to be confused with digital storage; can be any round flat object.

Not Always Digital

In graphics, represents a shape or area. Understand context by adjacent terms.

Visual Representation

Often used to describe celestial bodies from an observer's perspective.

Astronomy Context

In computing, it often refers to devices that read and write data on disks.

Technology Usage

Be aware that technological disks (floppy, CD, DVD) are becoming less common.

Obsolescence Noted

Specifically refers to cartilage between spinal bones; common in injury discussions.

Medical Term

Understanding its medical context helps identify discussions around back injuries.

Health Context

Refers to the centralized part of a composite flower head.

Botanical Part

Recognize it can imply the main platform for seeds or small flowers in botany.

Plant Structure

 shown here in blue. Some of that material is slingshotted around the black hole and accelerated to insanely high speeds in the jet, shown here in white. Although the blazar system is rare, the process by which nature pulls in material via a disk, and then flings some of it out via a jet, is more common.

Jedidah Isler: How I...

 Its placenta, a solid disk of blood-rich tissue, attaches to the wall of the uterus to support the developing embryo. The placenta is what keeps the calf alive during pregnancy. Directly connected to the mother's blood supply, it funnels nutrients and oxygen straight into the calf's body

The three different ways...

 and has a diameter about the distance between the earth and our sun. Because black holes are invisible, the only way for scientists to detect and study them is to observe their effect on nearby matter. This includes accretion disks, a disk of particles that form when gases and dust

Black Holes 101 PIPE...

 having the windows shot out of his car, having the police break into his apartment and steal his computer disks -- you name it. But ultimately, the story has a happy ending for Sudhir, who became one of the most respected sociologists in the country. And especially for me,

The freakonomics of...

 sights is the fastest it has the same bandwidth as a computer network then you have touch about the speed of a USB key and then you have hearing and smell which is the throughput of a hard disk and then you have poor old taste which is like rarely the throughput of a

The beauty of data...

 transaction anonymously out over the Bitcoin network which posts it to the Bitcoin general ledger on everyone's computer okay the big challenge with digital money because this is not the first digital money stored on your computer's hard disk has always been

Unpacking the nuts and...

 I'm not going to hypnotize you. But are you starting to see colors in the rings? If so, your eyes are playing tricks on you. The disk was only ever black and white. You see, your eyes don't always capture the world as a video camera would.

Eye vs. camera - Michael...

 There were no graphics routines. There were no mouse drivers. So it was a necessity. But in the quarter-century since then, we've seen all of the fundamental supporting technologies go berserk. So memory capacity and disk capacity

Pointing to the future...

 would go back into protecting and managing the land. There are no headstones and no graves in the typical sense. The graves are scattered about the property under elegant mounds, marked only by a rock or a small metal disk,

A burial practice that...

 will be replanted on fresh disks while others will be returned to the reef if replicated coral gardening could help restore reefs throughout the Pacific but its biggest success may be in sowing the

Disk