Posts by Personne

US Navy achieves '100 mile' hypersonic railgun test shot

Re: smoke

The rails burning?

Maths fail

If you cover 200 miles in a bit more than 3 seconds, you're travelling at almost 200 * (60/3) = 4,000 miles a minute = 240,000 miles an hour, which would make Mach 1 about 48,000 miles an hour, rather than the more commonly quoted figure of 768 mph.

BT boss brands Britain illiterate

"Some might argue that it's OTTP for an Off License ..."

I think you meant "Off Licence".

First among SQLs

@Daedalus: Acro-nots

Actually, both /are/ acronyms, same as "laser" and "radar". Whether an acronym is all caps depends on house style and on the acronym itself (e.g. "NATO", usually -- though not by the Guardian -- "scuba", never).