Posts by John Smith 19

"What about over 18 year old using acid to carry out attacks?"

No, that's fine.

It's not a thing. So the papers aren't bi**hing at her that "Something must be done."

"What are her leadership chances?"She came fifth in the latest poll, with 7.5%, Other (18%).

and let's not forget the bit about "Her majority fell from 4,796 to 346, "

Turning a safe Conservative seat into a marginal is quite a feat, but one she seems to have managed with ease. One might think her constituents had taken a dislike to her. A bit more and she might not be there at all.

The Guardian says “Don’t Leave the Tories Rudd-erless!”

Personally I'd quite happily leave it so.

Re: Techies will continue to sneer. I think I get her. She simply does not care

About your security,

About the security of anyone's data.

About the security of anyone's money.

She's talking out her a** doing this "for the greater good."

She simply does not care.

our astronauts back and forth from the ISS. Because we would rather add another 70 billion dollars

Good rant.

IRL it's $70 million dollars, and it's per seat.

At least part of that's down to the very cautious nature of the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (Or ASAP, who's name is deeply ironic given what their "advice" usually does to schedules) who said "Nix" to powered landing for Dragon 2.

At some point it will become apparent that SX (and even Boeing) will launch humans into LEO with capsules they mostly designed themselves while Orion is still years away from first crewed flight.

"Today cattle are required to spend three hours..in the airport Mall."

Except (I'm told) at Regan National in Washington DC.

Where the demands of the USians law makers and their assorted entourages ensure a considerably faster service.

""150 tons or 100 people" equating to 1.5 tons per person. "

That'll be that "super morbid obesity"* you hear Americans suffering from

*Or wobblebottomitis to give it its medical name.

"Vulcan, Valiant, Victor - all wing root engines. Also DH Comet"

According to Bill Gunston this was because the UK industry badly miscalculated the drag on podded engines.

Putting the engines in pods on the wings apparently stops the wings "waggling" about as much and definitely makes them a lot easier to service

And of course putting them next to the fuselage means the cabin is either much noisier or you have to increase sound insulation a lot.

That said the Victor and Vulcan looked stunning aircraft, despite neither being actually supersonic.

"just use inductance and fire that puppy off - railgun stlye!"

Actual railgun launch is around 100 000g acceleration.

As for a carriage well the USN has got that EMALS thing working and that can throw about 27 tonnes of F35 into the air in 45 secs,

An Airbus A380 is about 575 tonnes, or 21x bigger.

tosspot clowns of the British government look round,..got nowhere else to go..rather than Boeing,

To the contrary.

It was the MoD (and it's predecessors) blind faith that the UK needed a "National Champion" that allowed (and in some cases forced) the wholesale merging of the UK military aircraft industry.*

Behold the magnificence that is BAe Systems!

And let us not forget the 23000 men and women of MoD Procurement.

The f**king delusional bu***hit heroic vision of the 1957 Defense Review under the Conservative Defense Minister Duncan Sandys (no aircraft, all missile) also helped put the UK military aircraft industry in the place it is today.

"Any landing you can walk away from is a good one."

Isn't that RyanAir's corporate motto?

" It is never gonna happen."

"Never" is a very long time.

Wheather it will happen how most people expect it to happen.

Wheather it will happen on a time scale people expect.

Those are other questions.

"Does that include the morbidly obese?"

Shame on you!

Don't you know the number of grossly obese USians is grossly exaggerated by the MSM?

Anyway that's what the "Turbo" option is for.

"For the majority of users, Google *is* the Internet; "

Got it in one.

For a lot of people if it cannot be found by Google it simply does not exist.

BTW Price comparison websites are not for companies you know (but aren't particularly cheap). They are for finding those you don't know.

"event of a system outage their priority will be do restore the premium grumble lines,"

You mean it isn't?

"I love the smell of burning Vegemite in the morning."

Vegemite, breakfast of champions.

"Bloody horrible graphite/fibre mix that was a complete pita to machine."

Sounds like some kind of Reinforced Carbon Carbon. Like the nose of the Shuttle (or really high performance brake pads for aircraft).

Might have more in common with ablative heat shields designed for high energy entry, like Jupiter or Venus.

The article said they switched to a Beryllium/tungsten alloy during one of the upgrades.

Which I predict was also a PITA to machine as Be is brittle and highly toxic if airborn.

So, is it "Dr" Cockroach?