Posts by ravenviz

Neuraspace adds a second telescope to track objects in orbit

Satellite trails are an inconvenience to astrophotographers for sure but since satellite tracks are transient and many astrophotography techniques rely on long exposures, satellite tracks can be removed quite nicely in post-processing.

Asda hits the brakes on tech tweaks to avoid festive fiasco

Re: hmmm

I always find Morissons a bit weird, their store layouts and ambience are not very welcoming, and their plant based range is very poor. I definitely prefer Aldi or Lidl for staff friendliness, Tesco for selection, and Sainsbury's somewhere in between. And I’m always a fan of a Co-op for their yellow sticker fridge!

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory datacenter flooded, offline until 2025

Re: NASA has just one datacenter?

It’s a processing centre, the raw data are stored offsite. However DR at the storage site is of course an issue, one assumes immediate offsite backups there too.

Musk and Trump to fall out in 2025, predicts analyst

Re: Thank fortune that Musk was born in South Africa

“Musk would have been far worse”

Cue, the plot of Moonraker.

Japan's wooden cube-shaped satellite rockets to space

Brilliant idea! They could even make really small satellites out of bonsai trees.

China refreshes crew of its 'Celestial Palace' space station

Here, as I am, sitting in “the West” I hear very little about the Chinese space programme.

Reading the Wikipedia page, achievements so far are nothing less than impressive.

Since “China's incentive to build its own space station was amplified after US Congress prohibited NASA from any direct engagement & cooperation with CNSA”, it looks like they have carried on quite nicely, thank you, possibly even better than if they actually had engaged with NASA.

Come on Western media, more about the Chinese space programme please!

Musk, Bezos need just 90 minutes to match your lifetime carbon footprint, says Oxfam

Re: It's the other eight billion you need to worry about...

Local makes no difference whatsoever, the environmental cost of storage and transport costs per animal for maybe a week or so are dwarfed by the rearing and maturation of beef over a period of years.

Re: It's the other eight billion you need to worry about...

“grass fed beef”

Be careful how you interpret that, much grass fed beef is reared in sheds and the grass brought to them in lorries.

Re: It's the other eight billion you need to worry about...

“aspirations of the masses”

Indeed, everyone just carrying on as normal.

Veuling Airlines’ current ad campaign promotes flying places because “you deserve it”.

There are many who will not deserve floods and wildfires destroying their lives.

Canon ships first nanoimprint chipmaking machine to R&D lab

Re: No touching

Yes, the process ought not to defectivize the product.

The horror that is VHS revived for horror movie release

Re: It figures.

Alien: Romulus is essentially the same plot as Alien but for people who are 18, and not in their mid 50’s or older.

Re: VCD too

I had the (original) Star Wars trilogy on VCD!

Re: They did it for the publicity

“B Movies”

Including “Captain Kremmen”?

There’s a charity shop down the road chock full of old tech, I was thinking of getting a portable DVD player for old time’s sake, but VHS VCR it is!

Say hello to the epi-bit, a new approach to DNA data storage

Re: Oh...

Your DNA is going be used as a backup of Hungry Horace.

Tesla's big reveal: Steering-wheel-free Robotaxi will charge wirelessly

Re: My Job Is Secure

Babs? Is that you?

Re: priced keenly: below $30,000

“but what state will the inside of "your" car be in when you get it back?”

I was in a taxi in Cardiff that had a price list posted inside the vehicle for cleaning different types of “mess”, including: SICK £50

Re: Snakeoil

“and not everyone wants to take a dump or have a meal while "filling the tank"

I’ve seen families having picnics on garage forecourts more than a couple of times!

Re: Snakeoil

“swapping it makes no sense“

Quite the opposite, it all comes down to standards and infrastructure, the concept of battery swapping is not new. And you do not need to swap the whole battery, part in-car and part swappable cartridge in essence provides limitless range between formal at-rest charges. Battery swaps could even be automated.

Woman stuck upside down under rock for hours after trying to retrieve dropped phone

She should lodge a complaint…

Re: Think first...

Hence DR-ABC:

D Danger

R Response

A Airway

B Breathing

C Circulation

Parents take school to court after student punished for using AI

It’s not plagiarism, LLM’s generate unique content each time a request is made.

Re: “gain advantage”

Over whom? Surely school papers are scored objectively.

Once you weren’t allowed to use calculators.

Then you were.

The Astronaut wore Prada – and a blast from Michael Bloomberg

Re: the spacesuits mentioned above will cost $1 billion.

As for “Lidl in the Middle” a snap at $599k (single use only).

Re: "designed to fit both males and females from the first to 99th percentile."

“leave it to the ladies to supply their own euphemism

“squeeze the lemon”

WinAmp's woes will pass, but its wonders will be here forever

About the iPod

I still use a 160 GB iPod Classic on and old Bose Dock and still experience that iPod experience. And it has an album shuffler too, all good for that “I haven’t heard this album in ages!” experience.

UK electronics firms want government to stop taxing trash and let them fix it instead

Re: Stop it!

Don’t you mean nounerizing?

Re: Repaired or refurbished?

The point is that the callout fee is a disincentive to repair when you can just buy a new one and get it delivered for free.

Re: Repaired or refurbished?

The repair killer may often be the labour cost irrespective of the cost of the part, especially as minimum labour time is often quoted, you pay minimum one hour even if the job is 5 minutes, plus the dreaded “call out fee”, itself payable without the option of taking a fridge to their house or workshop (often a van).

'Newport would look like Dubai' if guy could dumpster dive for lost Bitcoin drive

Re: Has it ever occurred to M. Howells...

It’d be Dwbai or Llas Fegws anyway!

Re: civic amenity site

We have an “Eco Park” :-D

First time's the charm: SpaceX catches a descending Super Heavy Booster

Re: To the Moon and Mars

“arriving in 70 minutes”

I’d rather go by train Hyperloop.

Severe solar storm could disrupt power, communications

Re: Fools

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I knew it, solar flares started Covid. It’s so obvious now I overthink it!

Re: More X flares have happened in last 48 hours

I remember in the “olden days” we used to unplug the TV aerial from the TV just in case of a lightning strike. I’m not sure why, the only possible reason I can think off was so as not to blow up the TV which was a significant investment at the time!

BBC weather glitch shows 13k mph winds in London, 404℃ in Nottingham

Re: Just a storm in a teacup.

...or a storm in Sidcup!

Kamala Harris campaign motorcade halted by confused robotaxis

Is a crosswalk like an angry stride?

Re: The beginning of a robot uprising

My teapot is currently serving time for a racist slur.

NASA's Astrobees need a new buzz – any ideas for the space-dwelling bots?

Re: Cat AI?

- spray equipment with foul smelling stench (if fitted with stench tank and spray nozzle)

Re: Possibilities

Or GERTY.

Bring the joy of train delays home with your very own departure board

Re: a very realistic product

I had this in Minneapolis once, really annoyed I retorted, “Yes, we all talk like Stewie out of Family Guy!”.

For those not in the know, being asked to perform tricks based on physical or cultural characteristics is offensive at best.

Re: Hint

It’s yours, just send me your credit card details and I’ll ask Santa to deliver it on the day (notwithstanding the wrong sort of snow).

Re: TfW

Or LlanfairPG in normal use.

Re: a very realistic product

Yeah there is, they just use the word Bus on the display instead of the platform number.

Really they should just use the word Chaos instead!

SpaceX faces $663K FAA fine for Musk's alleged launch impatience

This is how private space is going to cause accidents.

Microsoft cash to help reignite Three Mile Island atomic plant

Clippy

Had to share, sorry!

https://youtu.be/3BEo4S17pAs?feature=shared

"837 megawatts, or enough to power hundreds of thousands of typical American homes"

TFTFY

Intuitive Machines shoots for the Moon with NASA's $4.82B lunar relay jackpot

So, NASA are sending people to the Moon again.

So, they land.

Then what?

What are they actually going to do?

Browse Facebook?

NASA engineers play space surgeon in bid to unclog Voyager 1's arteries

Re: Stunning engineering....

I have one of these toasters I picked up at a flea market about 15 years ago, it’s somewhere between 75 and 99 years old, and still works.