By the time the red disk sinks below the surface, the animal is dead.

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It appears the major sticking point concerns the depth of the memory layer on which data is written: HD-DVD favors a data layer 0.6mm beneath the surface of the disk, the same depth as on the current generation of DVDs.

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If our solar system's disk wasn't ionized, its material would not have been funneled onto the young sun's surface, researchers said.

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