Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Scandalous revelations coming out in 3...2...1

Still expecting we Earthlings get fed the wrong site.

Please identify all the "Arcturian mega-freighters in the image"

Re: "the significantly tighter waves of near-infrared light mean … more data"

Real extra-galactic civilisations use neutrino modulation, that way you always get good reception inside building (and inside planets)

Re: 1, 2, 3, ...

The nice thing is that you can make the receiving dish at Earth, and your transmitting laser, as big as you want ($$$$) to allow for the smaller telescope and lower power at the remote end

Re: Impressive.

A perfect diffraction limited system (ignoring laser beam coherence and beam waist stuff) the angle it spreads out by only depends on the size of the transmitting telescope and the wavelength.

So call it 1um infrared wavelength and a 1m telescope (7llinguini = about the biggest you could reasonably put on a space probe and point accurately)

That gives you an angle of 1 in 1million, so a 1km wide spot at 1M km (or should that be 1Gm ?) or 16km at 10M mi

Make the telescope a compact 1 Linguni ( 14cm ) and you have a beam 6-7km wide per million km

Of course that's the best case, you can always make it wider by buying a cheaper mirror or being a bit more cack-handed during assembly. Interestingly the atmosphere has a much smaller affect looking down than looking up at stars. Since you only get the wibbly-wobbly atmospheric turbulence when the light is almost at its destination it doesn't have time to bend out of the way much.

Re: supercomplaint

> The Patricia was the man and he had the vote!

That's why you have to be careful with the pronouns of the person throwing you in the scorpion pit

>Also explains why a lot of pubs ban the discussion of religion & politics.

That's why Rangers, Celtic and Amalekites have separate pubs

The explanation

>NGOs, who (in my view) already have a wildly disproportionate influence on government policy making.

Like ACPO ?

> Activist members of the alphabet brigade can be just as bigoted as religious fundamentalists

Although there are relatively fewer gay bombings of churches / murders of bishops by drag queens

Re: Hyper

But then everyone will get access to super ultimate platinum complaints free with their credit card.

Then we go back to just needing to complain privately

Re: Super?

Double top-secret super complaint

You can tow cows, but you must use their horn to warn other road users

Re: Nobody complained for years

>When the Iranian Ayatollah spewed his usual antisemitic nonsense and was not banned (in contrast to Donald Trump).

It's the Ayatollah's job to call for the violent overthrow of the United States.

It's generally frowned upon when the President does the same thing

>What does "dialectical hatred " even mean?

It's when old capacitors leak and ruin old kit - I really hate that

Re: What did anyone expect?

>Elon has to keep in (goosestep ) with his dear leader Donald 'the greatest' Trump.

I think you may have a fundamental misunderstanding of capitalism

The non-billionaires do what the billionaires tell them to do

Re: David Cameron and those sunny coalition years

> I was wondering whether it was crippled by design or accident.

Why can't it be both ?

A third way, between malice and incompetence. A new path for a new Britain !

Re: David Cameron and those sunny coalition years

Odd difference between politics in the old country and here in the colonies

The modern Tories have women and ethnic minority leaders and don't generally care what you do in bed as long as it doesn't scare the share price.

Re: David Cameron and those sunny coalition years

>Almost lost the Scottish independence vote

Did he? The Tory plan use to be for Scottish Independence to get rid of 30 Labour seats, but since Scotland decided to opt-out of Westminster politics who cares.

> Restructured the health service to plans developed by McKinsey, world famous for their expertise in medicine and health

Mission not quite accomplished, but they're working on it.

> Committed future government to ludicrous foreign aid spending targets

If you're running to be the next Labour leader you have to throw a few crumbs to the lefties

Re: Francis Maude

It's the old "classify everything as secret just in case" model of government but then when somebody lost the dept of rural affairs tea rota on a bus there were "Top Secret Govt Docs Lost" headlines.

So now they have a bunch of meaningless classifications so they can refuse to reveal stuff but without the headlines

Re: From the start

Get them the cyber-quadbike

And you get some free time while they're in hospital

Re: From the start

Or at least rechargeable, it's annoying when the kids get a new Tesla for xmas and you are out of AA batteries by lunchtime

Re: Child labour

>How are they going to compete with the rest of the world without using slaves and child labour?

Same way they compete in chip design, software, aerospace and high speed pizza delivery ?

Re: I'm reminded of early space exploration

>Better to use a wax crayon really.

But then you couldn't have Marine Corp pilot astronauts

Re: Read it!

Does the constitution actually prohibit drone strikes at traffic stops ?

Re: Warrant?

It's like Dickens or Austen (or Dan Simmons) - you don't actually have to read it, just have it on the shelf.

Re: Warrant?

So in the UK you are automatically a criminal .

While in the land of the free they would at least have to check your preferred version of the Magic Sky God book before they know if you are a dangerous terrorist

>"If we had to ask for permission we wouldn't be allowed!"

With all the 'background information' they have on the people making the decisions about the warrant ?

Re: Hm

If corporations are people, then people are corporations and so demand our respect

Re: J. Jonah Jameson laugh.gif

> Some of us actually USE our trucks.

But wouldn't all that get it dirty ?

Re: J. Jonah Jameson laugh.gif

Cos all Americans are really cowboys.

Although if self driving works, we could have country & western songs were his pickup truck ran away

Re: Himself as Himself

Actually Mike Myers isn't the worst choice ...