Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
To be fair the Lightning (me262) wasn't intended to last that long
One last ditch mission to try and take out a few of the Russian (Allied) bombers before they dropped their bombs on Blighty(Fatherland)
The F35 is never going to go into combat against any modern airforce, it's far to expensive to risk, its job is to fly around for 20-30 years generating support contracts
Or it has some public body that automatically stamps any public objection.
Here in stalinesque Canada, dire straits Money for Nothing was banned because one person wrote in objecting to the 'that little faggot got his own jet airplane' line.
Galileo was built to insure against the USA cutting off GPS over Europe in a future trade dispute / a French vanity project / a illegal government support of EU aerospace (delete as appropriate)
It is unlikely that the eu and USA and Russia will all cut off access to the UK. Galileo can't it doesn't have the finesse to allow a French container ship in the channel but block a British one.
The reason the brits want access to the secure signal is to do another Falklands without asking USA permission. Once it becomes Puerto Rico on thames this isn't an issue
The Eu should keep its satellites but thy wont be allowed to orbit over British waters, they will be forced to stop and turn back at the 200mi limit.
British satellites, equipped with the new Armstrong-Whitworth 6lb canon will be free to orbit the high spaces where they please.
There only remains the task for proper British boffins to solve the problem of making the Union Jack flutter properly in space
Email would have been worse.
There are 2000 voting sites, all using their own random devices.
How many have email setup? Do they have exchange server cos this is a work phone, gmail or still go to yahoo for webmail. Do you require every volunteer to reconfigure their phone to use a supplied email address and email server?
You get 2000 random typed emails in different formats, because there is no way you can have an auto fill template that works on all mobile email
How do you validate the emails?
How do you check that you haven't lost or miss-transcribed one?
Probably a simple web page would have been easier, but it should have been possible to write a simple app to send a few numbers to a server
>But I have no idea whether the objects break up or simply go wobbling off in a new direction
If you smack 2 lumps of metal into each other at 30,000 mph wobbling is optimistic.
IRAS is fairly chunky and includes a pretty solid mirror so that is going to bug-splat the smaller satelite.
There is going to be quite a lot of aluminium shrapnel generated but luckily neither of them would have much in the way of fuel left so there isn't an explosion as such. This means that not much of the debris will gain significant speed/energy and so end up in a higher orbit. The result is much less bad then blowing up a satelite with a warhead which boosts a bunch of the debris higher.
It's fantastic being an immigrant.
Moved from the UK ( where my physics PhD was worth 1/2 as much as a teenage financial adviser selling dodgy pensions ) to the West coast.
Met up with a bunch of Israeli immigrants, hired some Chinese and Russian immigrants and built a company. We sell fancy surgical robots all over the world (except the UK)
