* Posts by SpeakerToAliens

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NZ hydropower drought could see leccy rationing

SpeakerToAliens
Joke

Couldn't they harness a couple of...

Cave Trolls to the generators? Or maybe build some Balrog fired power stations?

They'd be a great (super)natural power source.

Mines the one with the Mithril lining.

Boeing raygunship fires first blasts in ground testing

SpeakerToAliens
Coat

@Lee

Correct.

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

Mine's the one with the opaque goggles in the pocket.

Shuttle astronauts: Aliens are definitely out there

SpeakerToAliens
Alien

Carl Sagan summed it up nicely.

He said "There may well be intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, but somebody, somewhere had to be first."

Where were you when you learned e-voting was unreliable?

SpeakerToAliens
IT Angle

It's not who votes, it's who counts that matters.

I think Stalin said that.

MPs: Axe Nimrod subhunters to balance MoD budget

SpeakerToAliens
Black Helicopters

I was told the real reason is...

...because there are more civilians employed by the MOD than there are soldiers, sailors and airmen in the armed forces!

Perhaps if we chopped the number of MOD civilians down to a reasonable level (10%, 5%, 3?) there would be enough money to pay for proper military kit instead of the half-arsed stuff we have now.

Mine's the bullet proof vest made of cardboard. Can you bring it out to my soft-skinned land rover please?

Arthur C. Clarke dead at 90

SpeakerToAliens
Heart

A big roomy mind at play.

Thank you for the mind expanding wonder you filled my teenage years with Sir Arthur.

When I heard the news I thought of this passage from the end of "The City and the Stars". I waited until I got home to copy it from the book. I wanted to be sure I got it right.

"In this universe the night was falling; the shadows were lengthening towards an east that would not know another dawn. But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning lingered; and along the path he once had followed, Man would one day go again.

The End"

Sleep well Sir Arthur. You will be missed.

Google encourages 10 teams to rocket to the moon

SpeakerToAliens
Alien

Of course you wouldn't *have* to use a rocket

Anyone remember Gerald Bull? Though politically misguided towards the end, he came so very close.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Babylon

Geordie cops arrest two for Wi-Fi squatting

SpeakerToAliens
IT Angle

How did they get caught?

Surely most people with wireless broadband wouldn't even realise it was happening. I'd have to go and deliberately look at the modem status pages to see it on mine. How many people do that regularly? I don't.

Calls to ban hoodie-busting sonic weapon

SpeakerToAliens
Coat

Perhaps an old-fashioned idea should be tried instead...

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother ... Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city ... And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice... And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die. Deuteronomy 21:18-21

You'd only have to do that a couple of time a year and the rest would jump into line.

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