What Is a Hard Drive?

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Engineers were trying to figure out how this particular song was crashing all these different computers. And they narrowed it down to the hard drive, so all the laptops use the same model of hard drive. So the hard drive has all these resonant frequencies that are actually musical notes. If you played one loud enough, you could actually knock the hard drive physically out of whack.

The whole conceit of this show is that if look at the world in the right way, you’ll see stories everywhere. Some of the stories are epic power struggles chronicling the construction of a famous skyscraper or the founding of a city; but other stories are more modest, smaller in scope and scale. We call those mini-stories and they're part of an ongoing, end-of-the-year tradition in which 99pi producers and friends of the show talk to host Roman Mars about something cool and fun that you can tell your friends or family about during a holiday get together.

You’ll hear about a very, very long escalator! Beavers dropping from the sky! We’ll hear from Janet, Miss Jackson if you’re nasty! Plus a visit from the queen!

Mini-Stories 15: Volume 15