Posts by I&I

Re: security concerns

Harwich?

Re: 1/3:3/1

When I was a boy (before the age-change), offshore Pirate Radio transmitters carried warping devices (proper valves) to ensure the wavelength rhymed with the station name.

(and people would curl up in bed with their trannies!...)

Re: imaging a black hole directly is somewhat tricky:

Is space quantum-foamy grey? How do BH (with Hawking radiation) compare against that? “Black” is so binary.

Possible surface detail effects including capillary, local hotspots. Fractal fun.

Has to be destroyed otherwise it can’t be written off “the books”. If someone was to find a use for it, that would conflict. The pen is, after all, mightier than reality.

Re: So are we starting a pool?

Great plot line for “The Archers”

Re: @RealFakeDonaldTrump

AI is a mind-lever, as opposed to an independent consciousness. Beware not the pawnish Terminators but (the mindset of) the chiefs of Skynet.

Push-AI gets programmed (eg by rules or training data/regimes). But pull-AI (adapt-to-thrive bots) in the political world becomes whatever thrives best in that world. Like scaremongering and threat-creation. Like human politicians, just amplified. Oh, we already have one.

Re: The Best of British

Are they a bloke?

Re: "What if terrorists ..."

(c) ...don’t read The Reg ?

Re: brake

Ionosphere - traditionally exploited for over-horizon radio from long to short wave and even itself modulated by high power transmissions - extends far above the ISS.

Re: Why not just

“...seen to be”

As in Three Mile Island incident PORV indicator

(“yes, you’ve flipped the switch”).

While driving on certain roads an hour or so away from Anaheim (S. Cal.), I was advised by a local priest (stopped at an intersection) that driving “too slowly” (like at or below the legal limit) could get you shot.

In which case the evidence needs to be bulletproof.

Run, Yutu (2), run

(Then if it had dug “that hole” it could indeed “forget the sun” - temperature variations)

(Repeat)

Re: Tech ignorance

...or FR system sees shop shrinking (rapidly, with distance)

Hey there’s a thought... crowd funded landing... subscription/donation rate shooting up as the ground approaches...

Re: Easily solved

The king’s new wall

Re: Poor Reliability.. better idea

In “The Man From UNCLE” (original tv series) the employees at HQ each wore a triangular badge. Some had them pointing upwards, others down. Promotion prospects?

What? Boats?

Re: This seems like a good argument for ion drives

I discussed this kind of application (at a space conference) with one of the major ISS designers (prior to ISS happening). He agreed it was a good application in principle, e.g. avoiding the “structural rattle” associated with (more impulsive) traditional gas-expansion attitude-control options.

But the aerospace industry is renowned for its conservatism. Who needs wheels when there is so much accumulated experience with skids? And risk assessors love accumulated experience.

One reasonable question (addressable) regards possibility of ionisation and hence structural charge.