Posts by Neil Hawkins

China's really cotton'd on to this whole Moon exploration thing: First seed sprouts in lunar lander biosphere

Re: Just a PR stunt

"... even if the box is on the Moon."

Is it? I want proof!

LOHAN'S PRATCHETT mission set to soar Saturday

Remove Before Flight

That Remove Before Flight ribbon is missing something.... the Reg logo. There's a Cash'n'Carrion idea for a key fob :-)

RAF Eurofighter gets a Battle of Britain makeover

Interesting that the leading edges / nose are left grey... #iwonderwhy

Plucky Playmonaut bails out of smoking Vulture 2

Re: Which bit failed?

That's what ground testing is all about! ... so the rumour goes....

Astronaut yells FIRE ... from SPAAAACE

Stuff strapped to his arm?

What is that he seems to have strapped to his arm and hand?

Jam today: Raspberry Pi Ram doubled

Bum...

I just received mine on Friday!

Experts stroke beards over LOHAN's vacuity

"we'd still worried about the possible terminal destruction of our pressure gauge".

Have you considered an absolute pressure transducer? The transducer will be more robust and you just need to calibrate before and after the test. You can do it yourself as you already have a precision reference gauge.

Missed the Venus solar flyby? It's only 105 years to the next one

Re: Sir

"Does passing between us and the Sun offer up more detail as to it's composition or something"

There was a Horizon program I watched on iPlayer last night that explained all the good science going on, loads of it, even the search for ET in the rest of the galaxy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01jszy4/Horizon_20112012_The_Transit_of_Venus/ of you can.

E-book reader sales to boom as prices plunge

Who pays for their books...

"After all they still rip you off for the e-books, why should you have to pay up from for the privilege"

I have the Sony PRS-T1 use the library service. Don't even need to hook up to the PC either... it's brilliant.

Woomera: Ghosts of Britain's space past

#8 looks like a modified Meteor

The new touchy-feely Doctor Who trend: Worrying

Ahh... Sara Kingdom. I can still see her demise. One of those things that sticks in the mind's eye after all these years. I can remember being behind the sofa to!

Reg reader stitches PARIS right up

But where is our plucky Playmonaut?

But where is our plucky Playmonaut? Has he gone all Neil Armstrong on us and gone all shy?

We demand an interview... with pics!

Sony revamps e-book Reader with reading lamp

Tony: Screen flicker

Yep, that's the way it works. After using mine for a bit I can say that I really don't notice the 'negative' screen change anymore in the same way you don't notice the page turn of a book.

Rowling ruling bolsters privacy chief's view of data protection

I agree Neil

Take it further and we should stop all TV programs and films that show children.