Posts by Denarius

Re: I doubt he was bright enough to build a rocket

Also, not trying to prove Earth is flat, just testing rocket.

https://www.space.com/mad-mike-fatal-homemade-rocket-launch-flat-earth-theory.html

@jmch

Weather in Oz. Good point. Not just tropical regions. Back around end of 1972 or 1973, a thunderstorm south of Perth Lat 36S something, was returning radar echoes above 70,000 feet. Rare, but given the persistent east coast trough lines that hang around for months over the last few years, I suspect anything hanging around the Oz SE corner may find the skies unfriendly. Being a drone it can be controlled to stay away from big forming storms so not a showstopper. Given the current source of detailed bushfire activity involves Lear jets carrying fire oriented sensors and satellites, the possibility of cost reduction is possible if one trusts BAE. However, launching a drone in fire weather would be an exercise in butt clenching.

Re: That's not the crater

Soil, the photo is badly labelled. The only surface evidence is a small eroded hill that is the remnant of the central peak. The rest of the crater structure is eroded away. The remote infrared sensing seems to allow some estimate of size. I note Wolfe Creek crater is now only half its original estimated age, being only 120,000 years old. Some good recent small craters just off the road to Ayers Rock at Henbury well worth a visit. Apollo moonshot astronauts went there for the intersecting crater geology example. Oh yes, watch out for snakes. The local browns are fairly lethal {G} Remember, in Oz, everything is trying to kill you

Re: Hypocritical

is that you again, the rotting corpse of SCO ?

Re: Decent aircraft

@Adair. ITIRC that Boing had that aircraft. 757 or 767 but that required recertifying pilots which costs money. A design can be be extended only to a point when it becomes a different design. Even in the light recreational planes I fly, one can feel significant different in one part of flight envelope between two models from same manufacturer. eg newer DG gliders are different in landing attitude. One has risk of breaking the tail wheel. Never had that issue before, yet it is just another two seat trainer. Not.

Re: I guess

@CommsWonk: Having been very recently involved in a similar but much smaller storm in teacup/incident I suggest you take two tablespoons of cement and harden up. When dealing with stress and other serious subjects dark humour is a survival strategy. By taking everything seriously you become that most unlovely of all things, a bureaucrat.

Re: I guess

Comet crashes ? I understood the square windows concentrating stresses caused at least one

Re: I guess

I believe the Russians have twin jet passenger aircraft designed recently available. China also producing its 737 equivalent. Weirder things have happened than the ruins of the Wests aviation industries evaporating in a decade. How likely ? Yogi Beras comment comes to mind

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Until all advertising, especially political has to pass a "Snopes Test" and fact checking before it can be released, mostly money and influence will sway elections. Also I suggest a decent knowledge of history being a mandatory part of getting a permit to vote. History as in hard data, not speculative theories about what some ancient might have thought. The West has 4000 years of written history, 2500 of it reasonably documented on large scale.

Re: Using your free speech to limit other people's free speech?

@CliveS: << Nazi propaganda from 1933 onwards. Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring was introduced in July 1933 forced sterilization of "genetic undesirables"

And those were copied from a northern New World country where a president raised the need in 1920 or so to keep the mentally feeble from breeding. Said country was still doing compulsory sterilsation into early 1960s. The rise of "Experts" creating problems that only their special advice could solve goes back further than 20th century Germany.

IMHO, Given the number of apologists for totalitarianisms who want to "save the world" at everyone elses cost, nothing has changed. As moderns do not exhibit any awareness of political or economic history (is there a real difference?) or the history of ideas the resulting disasters causes will only be seen by the future survivors.