Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
I used to do research at the tax payer's expense and publish it so others could benefit.
I then reviewed other papers for free in my own time and my colleagues edited for free.- for a journal that charged me $$/page to publish and then demanded $ for me to download a copy of my own paper, after charging my library $$$$ to subscribe
Can I suggest you connect a whole bunch of the sockets in a ring rather than running individual lines ?
That way you have twice the current capacity and use much less copper
Or you could save up your KitKat wrappers and use those as an alternative to Cu for house wiring.
>North America & Japan must upgrade to 230V.
Japan yes, they can even keep their traditional power diversity by changing which pin is earth in different parts of the country.
But can Americans really be trusted with 230v ?
Have you seen how easily they hurt themselves with relatively safe toys like SUVs and AR15s
That's why those baby toys with the shaped blocks and holes as so important.
You can watch everyone else's kid trying the block in different holes as they learn
Then you can watch your kid furiously hammering the square block into the round hole - and know you have bred a future engineer
Aliens visit earth frequently. But it's such a boring planet that it only gets included I'm those visit 10 Galaxies in 10days tours you get advertised in the Sirius-B Sunday Supplemenrs
So the aliens only have chance to get off the ship, laugh at some yokel and probe a cow before taking off to see the fire swamps of Golgafricham
It's a simple self-contained OS,they just have to back port a few Linux kernal security patches and keep allowing chrome updates to work.
Unlike a certain HW seller they have no need for you to buy the new shiny, as long as you keep giving their browser your eyeballs
And it forces the others to spend $$$ keeping Windows11 OS-XXIIV running for a decade.
>Apollo rockets used hydrocarbon (~kero.) and liq. oxygen while the second stage used liq. oxygen and liq. hydrogen
LH2+LO2 gives best bang / weight, so you use it for second stage where you have to lift all the fuel before you use it. But if you need a really BFR the cryo-tanks get really-really big, so you use Aga-fuel+LO2 for the first stage.
Think of it as methanol powered Nascar vs Diesel Tonka truck
>(or why the shuttle required solid fuel boosters)
Fuck, I've run the numbers and these insanely complex cryo engines we reused from the Saturn V 2nd stage aren't going to move the Shuttle. We are going to need some serious help(*)
(* 1st rule of explosives, if it doesn't work - add more explosive)
> the practicalities of handling cryogenic liquids
Don't tuck your trousers into your boots and make sure your fly is done up.
When I was a student there, 20 years ago, the new rail system didn't go all the way to LAX because of legal objections by taxi/rental car companies and didn't go to Pasadena because of Nimbys in posher South Pasadena.
Now the subway goes to LAX but to get to downtown you have to change trains twice at stations both named after local riots....
So, UBER does really well there
>Does that mean there was something "wrong" with the old ones?
God changes his(her) mind quite often
When the implementation was in stone tablets it was a real pain to do in-field updates. You had to send a bunch of crusading knights.
With software updates you can just roll out a quick patch to fix that whole "no-bacon+penis-snipping" bug
