Posts by imanidiot

Re: Interesting

It won't. Just wistful thinking by those that missed the chance to fly on Concorde (and over-romanticize the experience)

Re: Well tried and comprehensively already field tested .....

Different requirements? The new boats ordered will be 15 meters with twin jet propulsion, the boats you linked are 11m with props.

Re: Why?

As stated above. Inside the cleanrooms is probably not the problem (someone feeling ill/sick shouldn't even go inside in the first place as masks only stop so much and someone leaking nasal fluids and coughing/sneezing has a bigger chance of contaminating surfaces with particles and or chemical compounds that shouldn't be there). But the breakrooms, corridors, offices, dormitories, etc outside the cleanrooms where personnel are in close proximity can be problematic. And don't forget that while the majority of the production work happens inside a cleanroom there's also a large workforce outside of it doing maintenance, logistics, IT, H&R, planning, etc to keep the place running. All people working in an office that can easily spread infectious diseases.

Re: Interesting business model ...

It won't go "back in the box" as such. It will disappear though. And "me too" products like this are exactly the indicators a boom is reaching it's peak.

Re: And we wonder why ...

To be fair "ze Russhians" are having similar issues and lots of operational details on their systems have similarly been leaked. This isn't strictly a US/western military problem.

Re: Staffing these sensitive sites with young people is also an invitation for fun

I'm still very surprised (US) military personnel are even allowed to bring personal devices onto the base to begin with.

Re: Flashcards ?

The average US army grunt isn't exactly known for his impressive brain powers. They're training methods are therefor often aimed at "lowest common denominator" and rather simplistic/childish.

Re: "We f*cked up this time, we've learnt our lesson..."

No, no.

"We f*cked up and got caught this time, but we've learnt our lesson"

"We'll make more effort not to get caught next time!"

How is this going to be enforced? Where do you draw the limit? Constellations like starlink and some other satellites operate at an altitude where they'll re-enter in months at most. Re-entering geostationary satellites would be a giant drain on resources to the point geo satellites would be uneconomical as they'd have to consist mostly of fuel (they normally get moved to a parking orbit above geostationary where they'll stay out of the way for hundreds if not thousands of years)

Re: Oh the irony

The problem is that there are very specific things taken into account when designing a spacecraft for the launch vehicle it's going to ride on. The acceleration profile, launch vehicle vibration profiles and frequency content, sound pressure levels inside the fairing, assembly process and mounting point accessibility, available payload integration tooling and equipment, exact fairing load profile, ground power bus connections, vehicle bus connections, temperature profiles on the ground during payload integration, rollout to the pad, launch prep and during launch, and probably a million more things I don't know about and most people would never think about.

You can't just plonk JWST onto a Falcon 9 and call it good even if it could fit (which it can't since JWST requires the 5m fairing of the Ariane 5m, while F9 has 4.6m fairings). On top of that you'd need a massive additional dead weight below the telescope since JWST is so light compared to the normal payload weight of F9 that it would accelerate too fast and rip the telescope to pieces. Nor is the F9 second stage really rated to get payloads into the required orbit.

Re: Invest in mosquito screens.

Might have been a heron. I've seen one leave a lengthways racing stripe across my car. Literally front bumper to back bumper...

What that AC said. Shipping containers are primarily made to be sturdy steel boxes to ship stuff in. The downside to this for using it as anything else is that it's basically just a steel box. Unless you put a very big AC unit and heater in and cover it liberally inside AND outside with insulating material, it'll be either a big steel sauna if even a modicum of sunlight hits it (I know, not too much risk of that in Ol' Blighty but still) or a refrigerator.

On top of that they're noisy (being a big steel box) and a pain to modify (being a big thick walled steel box). Unless you can get one REALLY cheap, I'd look elsewhere for my construction material.

Re: To die for a phone

As posted above, I wouldn't be surprised if liberal amounts of inhibition removing alcohol was involved.

Re: "Mike learned an important lesson..."

"Someone who did that in my early days of apprenticeship was charged with attempted murder. It was taken that seriously by the authorities in Kiwiland"

And rightly so.

If I ever found out someone cut off my LOTO lock/tag there will be consequences. Police would probably get involved too. Either because I've managed to remain calm enough to file a report to them or because I haven't been able to keep calm enough about it. LOTO procedures are another one of those things where every rule has been written in blood.

Re: is clearly motivated by greed

I don't know what you're smoking mate, but your reality certainly doesn't align with mine.

In my reality "greedy corporations" is far more an (extreme) leftist talking point than a right wing one.

Re: Carbon neutral

Engine not withstanding ICE vehicles are exactly as complex as BEV vehicles (perhaps less so as most ICE vehicles haven't gone as overboard with integrating every single smegging function into some sort of remote brain box). And IC engines aren't exactly complex. Lot's of parts yes, but not that complex.

Re: Carbon neutral

Yes hydrogen rises quickly and is USUALLY quite harmless be because of that fast dispersal. But indoors in the average garage it could easily pool in the spaces between roof beams for instance if there isn't much ventilation/air flow. The big problem is that petrol fumes require quite a lot of energy to ignite compared to hydrogen gas. Even small leaks can sustain a flame and relatively low levels of hydrogen can explode with massive amounts of force from absolutely tiny amounts of ignition energy (to the point it just about auto-ignites at some concentrations). At low concentrations and without confinement petrol fumes have a tendency to deflagrate instead of detonate. H2, well, is a bit more enthusiastic shall we say at any concentration. It's not advisable to set either off, but you have to really have a proper leak to get dangerous amounts of petrol fumes.

I really don't see H2 working for everyday vehicles for joe-schmoe, it's just waiting for one to go kablammo in the middle of a residential area because someone thought they could fix it themselves.

Re: Carbon neutral

I'm still waiting for the first manufacturer to figure out the option of having a battery pack in the trailer to offset the extra drag could be a viable thing. Sure, makes the trailer heavier (a negative as that will also affect load capacity of the trailer) but if you then make the brakes electrically operated by the car brains so that the car can re-gen on downhills without the overrun brake kicking in and get at least some boost from the added capacity I can see it working out as a big positive.

Re: "Say it ain't so, Joe..."

I might be wrong, but ISTR that appealing is not even possible in Norway if you haven't bothered appearing in court at all.

Re: Unfortunately,

Your bank calls YOU to ask for information???

My bank has a very strict "we will never call you and ask for information" policy. If they do need information they ask you to call the main number and then navigate a phone menu or something (or log into their online environment and navigate to XYZ). They always make the customer take the initiative and initiate contact through a method the customer should know to be safe. To the point where at one point when I had someone on the line from a bank (they called me back about something) when it came to verifying something they had to ask me to hang up, call the main number, press 9 repeatedly until I got a human on the line and ask to be connected to mister xxx at extension yyy of department zzz. Even though I knew I was talking to the right person about the right thing.

Re: I love watching heavenly bodies...

"one of Kirk's exes?"

Is there any left that aren't?