Posts by ian 22

Re: More to this than meets the eye

I seem to recall Japan being accused of 'copycatting', and the accusation might have been correct... at one time.

The crew are given a hearty (farty?) dinner of beans prior to launch time.

Re: At -179C

Fuel for propulsion? The craft is surrounded by fuel! All that’s needed is an oxidizer, and voila! All the U-boat will need is a tank of oxygen.

Agreed. I don’t see the logic in simply removing instructions (randomly? Sequentially?) from a program to debug it.

If Load A doesn’t work, let's try Store B! Perhaps a bit of analysis would have been in order.

Re: It's not just matching

Declining birth rates correlate strongly with education for women, but as correlation isn’t causation...

Re: You can't beat a good 'KA-BOOM!'...

What can they be doing with all the resulting scrap stainless steel?

Re: Any landing you can walk away from...

However, keep in mind that any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.

Re: ... another 4 or 8 or ... 12 years

There’s literally nothing to stop the loser of the popular & electoral college votes from refusing to conceed, fight the results in the courts and create such chaos that the election is thrown into the House of Representatives, where each state gets a vote. As there are more Republican states than Democratic ones, Trump would again be President.

Re: Redacted

Is yours the one in the Faraday cage?

Re: The power of suggestion

In the (very) early days of the intertubes, one experimental implementation of password management *did* allow backspace as a character. Caused no end of problems.

Re: Security research. Yeah, that's what it was

Snark! The largest USian supplier of sexy lingerie sends most of its products to Bible Belt states!

Human drives exceed religious regulation.

More dangerous than Britebart? Isn't Milo Annopheles associated with Britebart?

Re: @YetAnotherLocksmith ... It makes sense, but...

Ironic it happened in Dallas? Why ironic? Wasn't Dallas where Kennedy was assassinated? Perhaps Dallas can claim the title "Sniper City".

Re: Hyper-long and quick

And if righty or lefty, does it matter if the beetles are from north of the equator or from south of it?

Re: Alternative Explanations

Spot on. Anyone dropping a cat in a gravity field has noted their control of that gravity field. They *always* land on their paws! QED.

Unless the cat is dead (or is it alive?) or both. Dammed cats.

Re: RUD

For the descriptively challenged, the rockets are Musk's so he has the privilege of defining nomenclature.

Build yer own rocket and name anything ya wants.

@Alan Brown

That explains the explanation of the Beaufort Scale atop Mount Victoria. When I was there, it was a calm day and I viewed the display with merely dispassionate interest.

Re: Wait, what?

Thank you. I understand now. I think....

@BebopWeBop

This didn't work so well for the Athenians! They tended to Ostracise (yes, that term originated that long ago) their best people. Granted, the process was used well before 5 BCE, but same principle.

Re: Tracking...

You think you have privacy? Of course they would want you to think that....

Re: What's wrong with getting older?

I've wondered if Trump might not be color blind, and none of his flunkies had the temerity to point out that orange hair isn't a thing.

As a famous member of the Bush II administration said 'we make our own reality'. Yes, and it seems one not congruent with everyone else's. A bit like the emperor's new clothes.

Re: The fourth international revolution

Ironically, Stalin decided computers were un-Marxist, thus delaying the revolution in the revolution.

Re: Must be the end of the world

By real value you must mean 'wisdom', 'love', etc., i.e. nothing tangible or readily fungible. Things corporations have no interest in. AmIright?