Posts by Chris G 6754 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2007
I wouldn't trust any connected robot as far as I could throw it, it would be phoning home almost real time keeping 'somebody ' updated on on my preferences and potential need for personalised things that will improve my experience.
The first thing to do when and if robo-butlers become available is to wrap it in a bloody Faraday cage and make sure it has no appendages that can plug into any comms device.
"Better to prevent the strike in the first place."
I think the current destructive capabilities od the entire planet need to increase by a few orders of magnitude to deal with an incoming object big enough and energetic enough to punch a 70 Km hole.
Or if deflection is the plan, we'll need a bigger rocket.
Currently the plan with highest probability of success, is to put your head between your knees and kiss your arse goodbye!
Fortunately, over the last couple of billion years a lot of the rubble whizzing around the solar system has either been swept up by the planets or captured into stable orbits that hopefully won't intercept ours.
I used to enjoy the Monday night football when I lived in the States hut the two commentators yakking and printouts of performance I found distracting from actually watching the game.
Looks as though rugby is going to go the same way.
I hate when stats cover a play so they have to replay it so that you can see what happened.
I would just like to watch the match
Not much of a surprise when you consider a couple of years back MBS arrested a good portion of his family, dozens of ministers and ex ministers and the the premier of Lebanon, he also purloined the funds belonging to most of the arrestees having accused all of them of being corrupt. All of this mostly to consolidate his position.
I suppose after this post I should avoid countries with very large beaches.
Well partly, would be to no longer have US Marines and British forces protecting poppy fields in Afghanistan.
A place where currently, 80-90% of the raw opium is produced.
When the Vietnam war spilled over illegally into the neighbouring countries that were part of the lod Golden triangle, Air Anerica was flying the stuff to Western markets.
Cui Bono?
So we now have Short Sellers looking for or concocting stories to drive prices down or companies whose performance is down blaming Short Sellers for their woes.
It seems in politics and business now that the truth is determined by whoever shouts the loudest first.
Might I refer you to this Solar energy paper from 2018; https://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/pdf/2018/24/e3sconf_solina2018_00053.pdf
This is notwithstanding the potential risk of meteor strikes, some mentioned the regolith as being extremely abrasive but considering the lack of atmospheric perturbation to deposit dust onto the panels which would have no moving parts that could disturb the dust causing ingress and wear. A 1 square metre Fresnel lens from an old telly is enough to melt good sized chunks of obsidian in seconds (3002 degrees Fahrenheit) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svAPyyUJUCo so I think solar would be the most obvious and easier to construct and ship to the moon.
Some decades back, I was the workshop manager of the grounds maintenance division of a London council. One or two areas we operated in were known hotspots for unattended items to go missing, the areas had high numbers of pikeys and travellers who had a reputation for nicking anything that wasn't nailed down.
over a period of a couple of months, several mowers and strimmers had gone walkies and I had to set up a system where each operator had to sign for his kit each day to try to find out who was most lax and to make them feel more responsible for their kit.
The first weekend after the signing system was set up, one of my mechanics went to a boot fair some forty miles away and discovered a stall with a load of our kit still in it's colours that we painted on to everything and still wearing the engraved stock numbers.
The stall holder? One of the mowing team members and a mate from another council who was providing stock too.
They both received early morning visits from the constabulary.
New logo?
The way that normally goes, they will need to collect a good £50Million just to pay for the Corporate Identity Consultants before they are able to come up with a new logo, then they will choose something that is almost the same as the old one just to provide a semblance of continuity.
My local backup is a little black book, for additional security, should I decide to use it, I actually do have a disused lavatory in my garden and it does have a filing cabinet in it. The cabinet is mostly full of old rusting tins of paint and European black widows and their webs as is the rest of the lavatory so the leopard sign is not really necessary.
Other hiding places are available.
That makes me wonder how much the world would be improved by having a range of standard batteries to power I things....... You know like the AA and AAAs of the past.
It's a radical concept but I thnk reasonable engineers could design their e things around a standard set of batteries.
Anyone know how many different phone batteries are currently on the market?
My opinion is that far from being an upgrade that requires some additional training and a bit of software, the fitting of different engines that have significantly changed the flight characteristics to the point that they are dangerous without that software and training, has put the aircraft outside the usually acceptable envelope for a civilian airliner. This is not a modification it is a type change.
Passenger aircraft should be inherently safe and stable to fly, not optimised for profit and reduced spending to keep up with the competition. In relative terms this has been a cheap fix to avoid falling behind Airbus in sales.
I can't begin to imagine how much thought is going into arse covering and how many brown envelopes are changing hands.
With or without mayo'?
If it's got cheese, to function fully it must have bacon as a catalyst for the cheese. In the event that cheese collection on arrival was part of the mission would bacon have been included in the mission load or was it assumed that bacon would be naturally occurring with the cheese?
I'm happy I am in Spain, we seem to have a reasonable government at the moment but who knows how long this one will last?
Overall we don't have a great deal of interference from government and unless you are a Catalan activist, nobody has any interest in you.
Let's wish RyanAir all the best as even their customers refuse to fly in 'The Rose Max'.
The only part of a passenger that RyanAir cares about is getting the arse on a seat, or at least the money for that arse. As an ex air frame guy I would have to be desperate to get somewhere if it means flying with them, they don't fill me with confidence although I must confess that some of their pilots are good.
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