Posts by Professur

Hubble plays spin the bottle with last few gyros

Re: Another refurb mission?

Easy to spend someone else's money, isn't it? The fact is another billionaire DID step up to the plate to pay for a service mission. Nasa said no.

Done

The long and short is that Nasa administrators would be very happy to see a total failure of Hubble. It's far exceeded it's expected mission duration by several decades and while it's still very very useful, that's money they really want to spend on new toys. Public pressure was the only reason for the last servicing mission.

Court accepts Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim's insider trading settlement

Terminology

Remember folks ... criminal with a fine means legal for a price.

CEO of motherboard maker MSI dies after plunging from headquarters' seventh-floor

Well, nobody can say he didn't have an impact

Wanted: Big iron geeks to help restore IBM 360 mainframe rescued from defunct German factory by other big iron geeks

AARRGGHHHH ... I'd managed to purge JCL from my memories .... why did you have to bring that up? I'll have nightmares for weeks now. Years of therapy wasted ...

Steppe thugs pacified by the love of stone age women

So ... these assholes are responsible for all the damn caravans on the road today????

Father of Pac-Man dies at 91

In his honour, tonight, I'll watch Pixels. Who's with me?

RIP John Glenn: First American in orbit – and later, the oldest, too

There goes the man with the shortest Bucket list on the planet.

Left-wing cyber-hangout blames security breach on pro-Trump trolls

That site was misbehaving election night. Someone posted a link to it on a forum I wandered into and everyone viewing that page got a login popup from DU that made it past most adblockers.

Musk: Got best battery ever

You can definitely boil a kettle with a Note 7 battery tho.

Possible reprieve for the venerable A-10 Warthog

Re: Don't look to the past

Noone who's ever been either in front of, or behind an A-10 will ever call it a relic. It's worth remembering that the US marines bought out the UK of all Harrier stock they could get their hands on. And while the UK won't have anything that can fly off their new carrier for a while still (provided pilots weigh in correctly and there's no tail wind, and the computers all work, etc) the marines are still more than happy with their relic jump jets. New in the military is frequently nothing more than a way to funnel public money into rich people's pockets.

The next Bond – Basildon or Bass-Ass? YOU decide

I want a Bond who doesn't spend most of the movie crying about his childhood. Is that too much to ask today?

Microbes that laugh at antibiotics: UK sinks £4.5m into China-Brit kill team

Make something idiot proof ... they come up with a better idiot. Keep finding new drugs to kill bacteria .... wouldn't a better choice be to find ways to let us live with the bacteria? Evolution is an understood process, isn't it? Leave a population hole, something will fill it.

Physicists confirm X(4140)

How ... charming

SpaceX's Musk: We'll reuse today's Falcon 9 rocket within 2 months

Re: "Merlin engines"?

King Arthur hasn't been seen at court in quite some time.

Watch: SpaceX finally lands Falcon rocket on robo-barge in one piece

Re: Congratulations etc.

as opposed to their only real competition who use russian build motors. A large part of the SpaceX culture is to bring back national pride and employment and not just focus on the bottom line. You did know that the USA hasn't lifted a human in nearly a decade? Next time you go to Walmart or Tesco ... try and find a toaster that's not made in China. Might be well all need a little more of that USA or UK chanting in our lives.

I was listening to the webcast on my bluetooth .... when the Falcon landed ... I pretty much lost hearing in that ear. They're gonna need tools to pry the smiles off their faces.

Brits rattle tin for 'revolutionary' hydrogen-powered car

Re: Invited to name the car?

I'm thinking Hindenburg might be pretty common too.

'Planet nine' theory boosted by Kuiper Belt Object with odd orbit

What really sucks is that New Horizons is zipping off in the wrong direction.

'Naut triumvirate set for ISS launch

4 times ... selfish git. Give the rest of us a shot. He's not even paying his own fare.

Hi-def ExoMars launch vid lacks volcanic lair vibe

I quite liked Dr. Evil's launch myself.

SPACED OUT: NASA's manned Orion podule pushed back to 2023

Re: It's not Rocket Science.

The mere testing of this will take longer than the entire Apollo program.

For sale: One 236-bed nuclear bunker

Is it on city water? What are the taxes like?

Murderous necrophiliac kangaroo briefly wins nation's heart

Hop. Kangaroos hop.

The designer of the IBM ThinkPad has died

I've still got my 360cs ... and it still runs. W95, office 97.

Luscious LOHAN t-shirts fly into Vulture Central

Re: What's the O in LOHAN?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/25/lohan_backronym/

Do try to keep up

British boffin tells Obama's science advisor: You're wrong on climate change

Even Kim Jong Un is smart enough to know not to trust weathermen. C'mon ... they can supposedly predict temp changes of .1C over hundreds of years ... and can't get the weather right 3 days running. The guys with convertibles at work don't check the weather to see if they can leave the top down. They check to see if the old guy in security is limping today. Now there's a weatherman with some accuracy.

I recall well that during the '70s these self same experts of climate were warning of another ice age. Using the same data. You know what the definition of 'expert' is don't you? Someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know absolutely everything there is to know about absolutely nothing at all. I'll take the mathematician ... You might recall it was a mathematician that predicted the utter failure of Jurassic Park.

Orbital refuelling stations could rescue NASA Mars plans

I think I saw this before

They had one in the movie Armageddon. Didn't work out too well for them as I recall.