Posts by ravenviz

That's gas: CO2 found on Europa surface may hint at some possible sign of life

Re: CO2?

ULEZ is about NOx and particulates.

The iPhone 15 has a Goldilocks issue: Too big or too small. Maybe a case will make it just right

Re: While the world slowly turns n burns.

Yes they are, modern website design fully incorporates phone and tablet viewing.

Re: They're all too big

Just don’t reboot it, you will lose all your apps. I think there is a lot of space for original iPhones with original apps still installed.

SCREAM resonates in the race for the Gordon Bell Climate Prize

This really has come to something that we are giving prizes for modelling the highest fidelity fuckedness in which we can find ourselves.

“Don’t look up!”

South Korea's Moon orbiter snaps India's lander

The design is proven so why fix it if it ain’t broke?

Besides, it’s only 2 m tall, the Apollo landers were 7 m tall.

Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure

Re: Moving House

Not to mention torrent sites.

Re: Moving House

With ripping CD’s you also get to control the bandwidth to any quality you want all the way up to lossless.

RE: Nine letters. Begins with C.

Christmas?

NASA rockets draining its pockets as officials whisper: 'We can't afford this'

Re: Pork

Bloody Vikings!

Re: Please, ell me another one, that one was hilarious

Trains are great!

Musk's mighty missile is ready for launch once FAA says OK

Re: "A lack of a sound suppression system"

This is why NASA have always been on top of things, thinking everything through to the nth detail. Sure it’s expensive but it’s also robust! (No comments about STS failures please, it’s old hat).

Europe's Ariane 6 takes rocket science seriously by testing patience before engines

Re: "Aschbacher admitted in a recent LinkedIn post"

I’ll just wait for the Sky at Night feature.

/armchair

Right to repair advocates have a new opponent: Scientologists

Re: This thing measures your *soul*?

"the scale would have to go to 11"

It's one ironicer!

Re: Huh

Brilliant introduction,"The Church of Scientology uses devices called E-Meters to measure Thetans in the body. We’re not going to discuss this further, because we don’t want to be murdered."

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is returning with its first-ever asteroid sample

Re: Life's history

I think compound probabilities go down rather than up.

Re: Long term weather forecast

Same, we watched Phillipa Forrester on a fat back TV perched on a chair facing into the garden while we watched the overcast sky go dark! Was still quite surreal though but what a jinx!

We all scream for ice cream – so why are McDonald's machines always broken?

The nearest McDonald’s to the Isle of Bute is in Greenock, a 3 hour round trip including a ferry ride!

I thought ice cream vans had improved, I heard they have become less Flaky these days…

Re: No sh!t Sherlock

And automatic toothbrush heads!

Re: No sh!t Sherlock

Have you never taken apart a Breville sandwich toaster after a few years’ use? OH THE HORROR!

USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix

Re: Bork! Bork! Bork!

alt.stupidity FTW!

China's top EV battery maker announced a breakthrough, but top boffin isn't convinced

Either all the “can’t do” comments (and a downvote) and maybe a ‘can do’ approach. Toyota are already working on it. https://mag.toyota.co.uk/ev-battery-swap-toyota-joins-cartridge-batteries-research/

Of course a plug and play battery cartridge swap out system would be quicker, just go to the battery station and swap your nearly empty one for a charged one; it could even be automated. Some have said that you will then need twice as many batteries in circulation but if you make them half the capacity with good infrastructure then problem solved. All it needs is for car companies to come up with a battery cartridge standard.

India's Moon mission continues to triumph, Japan's waits for better weather

When is ROOSA (Running Out Of Silly Acronyms) going to be launched?

This is what ChatGPT has to say on the matter:

Sure, here are 10 short acronyms for future lunar landing missions:

1. LLX-1 (Lunar Landing Xpedition-1)

2. ARIEL (Advanced Robotic Inhabited Lunar Expedition)

3. LUMINA (Lunar Unmanned Missions for In-Situ Navigation and Analysis)

4. FLARE (Future Lunar Artemis Research and Exploration)

5. LISA (Lunar In-Situ Survey and Analysis)

6. SOLIS (Strategic Operations for Lunar In-Situ Studies)

7. LUNEX (Lunar Nexus Exploration)

8. LUMARI (Lunar Missions for Advanced Research and Innovation)

9. LUNA Prime (Lunar Unmanned Navigation and Analysis - Prime)

10. LARC (Lunar Advanced Research Campaign)

North Korea may be itching to sell $40m of purloined Bitcoin

This reads like the plot from an Ian Fleming novel!

NASA still serious about astronauts living it up on Moon space station in 2028

The only reason we need “space” is for resources so we can stop fucking up the Earth. But this is on our terms, we are not really any different from the water cycle if we manage to figure out some form of stability.

Brainwaves rock! Scientists decode Pink Floyd tune straight from the noggin

Re: Visceral response

More than an upvote!

Visceral response

There are certain songs I play that *always* give me goosebumps and make my whole body tingle. Explain that, boffins!

Curiosity finds evidence of wet and dry seasons on ancient Mars

"Drastic cooling in turn caused Mars' core to freeze"

Really? This is implying that Mars' atmosphere was ever a sufficient insulator to prevent that happening anyway, which seems a bit of a stretch to me.

We need to be first on the Moon, uh, again, says NASA

Re: Just one question

TL; DR

Re: Just one question

Hylerloop might actually work on the Moon!

Re: Just one question

The barges were a development phase, synchronised landing of the boosters on target landing spots is akin to precise choreography.

Re: There is a word missing

At least PRC just get on with it without "high fives" and Bruce Willis.

Re: So reading between the lines ...

SpaceX sending people to the Moon simply is not going to happen, let alone Mars. They have no rigour. NASA has rigour and does things properly. And I don't want any comments about Shuttle disasters, the administration has learned lessons and moved far along since then. Even so, RIP STS 51-L and STS 107.

Virgin Galactic sends oldest-ever Brit and first mother-daughter duo into space-ish

While awesome, and a feat of entrepreneurship and aeronautical engineering, seemingly worthwhile for the price tag, where does this go beyond a fancy fairground ride?

NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2

Re: Variation

We still talked about submitting job cards decades after queuing became fully digital.

Re: Off topic

Someone brought in a Ceefax ‘box’ into our sixth form computer class and connected to one of the Beeb B’s, amazing it was! <starry-eyed emoji>

On the record: Apple bags patent for iDevice to play LPs

Re: rebalance the tonearm

I found that a 1p or 2p coin stuck on with Blu-tac was fine to compensate for records that had become warped by various degrees because they had been left in the sun for too long.

Re: CDs are alive and kicking

When I can pick up classic CD’s from charity shops at 50p a pop, what’s not to like?!

Re: Sooo....

<p id=“ntnon”>What’s the difference between that and a gramophone?</p>

To infinity and beyond, with a swarm of tiny computers costing under $1K each

They (including Stephen Hawking RIP) keep on going on about tiny probes going to the stars. How on, er, Earth are they going to get enough energy and signal focus to communicate back with us Terrans?

Musk's X tries to win advertisers back with discounts

“X” soon to be re-rebranded “Why?”!

BT and OneWeb deliver internet to rock in Bristol Channel – population 28

You can switch off your devices anywhere you like, you don’t need a special trip to Lundy!

Feds want to see what ChatGPT's content is made of

Isn’t the ChatGPT model a bit like a little known brand of sandwich pickle having a jar that looks “a lot like” a Branston’s jar but not quite the same? Obviously label designers have “scraped” (looked at) a Branston’s jar and asked themselves, “make me a label that looks like a Branston’s label”, and then made it.

NASA 'quiet' supersonic jet is nearly ready for flight

Re: That diagram/faux graph makes me a little suspicious.

micro-Krakatoas

Europe's Euclid telescope launches to figure out dark energy, the universe, and everything

All hail The Great Green Arkleseizure, thy time sneezeth. Bless you!

Virgin Galactic finally gets its first paying customers to edge of space

Re: I think it's found it market.

And completely reusable!

Re: Day trip

Silvia and Gerry Anderson already managed it quite easily in 1999 (in 1975).

Re: Sub plot

My uncle’s Elon Musk, and so is my wife!

Missing Titan sub likely destroyed in implosion, no survivors

Re: A fitting epitaph

Or ‘Safety was pure waste’.