Posts by NathanD

NASA just weeks away from trying again with SLS Moon rocket launch

Yeah - of the 12 men who walked on the moon, 7 of them were US Navy fighter jocks, not US Air Force.

Royal Navy seeks missile-moving robots for dockyard drudgery

Re: mousetrap

There are 13 real ones though, they have proof marks on them! The copies don't. And one was supposedly at Trafalgar too according to one guide. Look at the 32 pounders on the lower deck...

RIP Eugene Cernan: Last man on the Moon dies aged 82

Obligatory xkcd...

https://xkcd.com/893/

I'm 41 so in my entire life no-one has been further than the Apollo astronauts. Shocking really.

Lester Haines: RIP

Tragic

Everyone's said it so very well already but condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.

Pint raised in his honour today.

Spanish village celebrates Playmobil nativity

Re: All that's missing-

The "Cheeses of Nazerath" joke is the best joke in the world, IMHO.

All in all, it's just another hit in the stalls: Roger Waters The Wall

Re: Meh

Hung is not the past tense of hanged when talking about the execution by hanging. Hanged is the correct tense.

Jamie Oliver serves up steaming pile of malware

Re: Shuttered?

adjective: eponymous

(of a person) giving their name to something.

e.g. His eponymous '.com' site: jamieoliver.com

;-)

Frenchmen's sperm plunges by a third in quality and quantity since '89

Re: Professor Richard Sharpe?

New job for The Rifles....

There's 40 shillings on the drum,

For those who'll volunteer their come,

Knock up a French girl everyday,

While over the hills and far away.

New airlock mini-sub for US Navy SEAL 'operations'

re:contradiction

He's not actually "getting" inside it, he's already inside it - thats as far in as you can get on these things.

Apache gunbird used as robo kill-chopper fleet command ship

re: Why not stick it underneath,

We put the radar on the top so that the chopper can hide behind trees or a convenient ridge and still scan a tank on the other side and even launch its missiles without ever revealing itself.

Everyone elses apaches have to pop-up in order for the visual target acquisition stuff in the nose to do the same job, exposing the helicoptor to risk.

Hasbro kills Colonel Mustard in the corporate office with the marketing ploy

@ AC re: PIstol - Revolver

>> Pistols use the back compression of a cartridge to eject a round and chamber the next from a spring loaded clip. (Pistol-Piston - get the mechanics?)

Nope - pistol was a term used in the seventeenth century to describe early guns designed to be fired one handed. The words etymology comes through high-german from thge Czech word "pistala" which means pipe. Nothing to do with pistons!

As already stated - all handguns are pistols, but not all pistols are revolvers!

I'll get me coat - its the English Civil War Buff with the pair of english-lock horse pistols...