Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Nuclear powered trains are easy - just put the spicy rocks in the firebox instead of coal and use the same Great British steam train technology.
>Oddly the Thunderbirds themselves appeared to be decidedly carbon un-neutral.
That's why they had to operate from Tracy island - outside the IPCC control
You don't need any of this new fangled windmill technology.
Just a simple sail on the top of the train and the Flying Scotsman clipper express can swoop up to Aberdeen on the winter gales (returning in spring)
Admittedly tacking is trickier on rails - but I'm more a big picture innovative creative Ted-talk type, I'll let the minions deal with details.
It depends, do you use your laptop mostly for web browsing, watching youtube and a bit of office365 / google docs?
Or is it mostly used for CUDA based protein folding model development and doing the visual effects for your new 4k blockbuster, like all the people sitting in the window in Starbucks - then of course you need a 'real' laptop
The original proposal late 90s was a ligthweight "conventional" 6m mirror be launched by an Ariane5 in an enlarged fairing.
Politics in the early 2000s meant it couldn't be launched on a cheese eating surrender monkey rocket - and no patriot rocket was big enough, hence the crazy folding design.
That burned so much time/money they needed foreign partners and ESO contributed the Ariane5 launch.
>While NASA doesn't mind launching on foreign rockets if they get the job done (e.g., James Webb is going up on an Ariane V),
It most certainly does (or at least its chums at ULA do) the whole design and 10 year delay of JWST was to avoid an Ariane launch, it was only the irony that this caused them to run out of money.
Entire nations satellite industries are built on the USA not allowing launches of US built commercial payloads, forcing them to go home grown. ULA even blocked sea launch on the basis that sailing 12 miles offshore to launch was an "export"
They use the Russian engines because they're cheaper
Why not just have the Russians launch your payload?
Surely insisting that your own industry build them instead of letting the market decide is communism?
"Demand Russian Rockets to Fight Communism" - too long of a slogan to fit on a hat ?
>doesn't matter what OS or application it is
Except a Linux open source application is more likely to link to a system shared library which will get security updates.
How often do you go through all the closed source commercial apps on windows to check what static libs they were built with and what vulnerabilites those have ?
In economics it's known as "Bootlegger and Baptist" the people most vocally campaigning for stricter laws aren't the do-gooders, it's the criminals that benefit from the demand and the police removing the
competition.
It's why giant car companies campaign for stricter safety and emissions rules.
if only there was some way to ensure that a Health Service could cooperate across an entire Nation? Perhaps some sort of central authority, a National health service if you like.
Of course if you wanted to be able to quietly sell it off eventually it would make sense to split it into different competing regions / hospitals / trusts
> If you're going to build a new fusion experiment, this is always going to be among the first choices for location
Mainly because of the 50-100years it would take to get planning permission to build a fusion reactor anywhere new.
That was the main difficulty in building ITER. Finding a nuclear nation that isn't a close ally/enemy of any of the other partners. The French are unique in both having nuclear weapons and being equally 'trusted' by all sides
>they point it back home let it burn up in the atmosphere
There is no fuel to 'point it back home', there was a plan to add a de-orbit motor but the shuttle got cancelled.
>so that it doesn't add to the ever growing "pile" of space junk
Don't worry it won't.
Do worry that 2tonnes of solid mirror etc will reach the ground.
The orbit only reaches the tip of Florida so most of the USA is safe - you only need to worry if you live in the tropics.
I couldn't understand our local equivalent - think Silicon Valley meets Tellytubbies
Then I heard a business podcast about how they're are basically the C21 equivalent of a nightclub.
Nobody is there to start a successful company, there are a few trust-fund/credit-card funded 'founders' dreaming. A lot of marketing/management-consultant sharks trying to hook up with them and a large number of attractive boys/girls/etc hoping to 'market' themselves to the next Zuckerberg.
Simple guide: success is inversely proportional to style.
Central London location with a rent only google can afford, artisanal coffee machines, motorized standing desks, and motivational meditation rooms = fscked
Some cheap cubical farm space you share, with somebody taking care of internet and electricity, with perhaps a receptionist to handle deliveries and a meeting room in case we ever get customers = a chance.
