Posts by Lester Haines

Got a few minutes to help LOHAN suck?

Re:

..."there is no way that you are setting off a rocket motor inside my nice thermal vacuum chamber".

Oh, come on, that's hardly the LOHAN spirit, is it?

Re: Only if you have plenty of pressure gauges ...

Correct. That's our thinking on closing off the vacuum chamber and isolating the gauge and pump before firing. I doubt the gauge would survive the sudden rise in pressure...

Re: remember

Duly noted: chill first, then suck.

Re: Cooling even necessary?

The rocket does have its own oxidiser, I'm assured. Just as well, at that altitude...

Spanish firemen grapple naked stairs sex Brit

Re:

You go home, you stick the kettle on , and then you have a nice cup of tea. Haven't you seen Zulu?

Re: how to work a rogue Russian space probe into the equation

That's good enough for me.

Re: I'm having trouble visualising

Hmmmm. I may have difficulty sourcing a naked middle aged Brit Playmobil figurine. Will a blonde in a bikini do? I've just taken delivery of one...

Also, I'll put my thinking cap on as to just how to work a rogue Russian space probe into the equation. We can't have people getting upset about the lack of a solid news angle, can we?

IKEA cuts ribbon on 'I've Got A Screw Loose Street'

Re: Idioms

Correct. In English, "me falta un tornillo" translates as "I've got a screw loose". Obviously, in the original Spanish it's also a reference to the common lack of a screw in a flat-pack box, but beware a literal translation into English, which in this case wouldn't mean much.

LOHAN gets hands on mighty thruster

Re: Where does the rocket exhaust go?

Check our previous piece on the chamber - the lid isn't fixed on, and just sits on a rubber seal.

Re: Have a question on the REHAB

Correct - put motor inside, chill, then remove air

Re: Thrusters

Yeah - that's our kind of rocket motor.

Whinging Brits reflect on epic Oz road trip

Re: Australia: it's a bit foreign

Correct. It's hellish out there, I can tell you. I had to go a whole three days without any exfoliating facial scrub, and you trying getting a tub of Ben & Jerry's organic sun-tickled guava ice cream in Coober Pedy. It's not right, really...

Re: Whinge is about right

Well, we wouldn't have given a tinker's about coverage if we hadn't actually been working on this particular adventure.

We were thinking more about the poor souls who have to live out there all the time without proper comms. The bloke in Dunmarra had some creaky satellite internet set-up, hardly appropriate for a country which makes heaps of money extracting expensive metals from big holes in the ground - themselves often in the back end of nowhere.

Having said all that, I think some of our commenters are taking the piece a little too seriously this fine Friday. Pub o'clock, I reckon...

Re: Dirt

Aha - I've done the Oodnadata Track. Not much tarmac and plenty of dust.

Oz solar car race caught on camera

Re: Brizzy?

I'm visiting a mate on my way back. Mercifully, I flew from Adelaide to here.

Re: Nice video

We were: the pie stack - meat pie with mash and mushy peas on top, washed in gravy. Washed down with a schooner, natch.

Just seven solar cars reach Adelaide alive

Re: Solar-furnace powered steampunk racing car

I like it. Got a CAD file of that design?

Re: "under their own steam"

I had a bet with myself that this would be the first comment. I'm awarding myself beer, here on Queensland's Gold Coast, as a reward for my insight into the Reg commenter mind. Cheers!

Solar car teams bask in Darwin sunshine

Re: RE: Ex pat Brit in Darwin

Weather was fine until we got to Adelaide, where it started raining hard.

Re: Ex pat brit in Darwin

Look out for us and give us a shout... Drew will be be wearing his SPB shirt.

Re: And of course

By an amazing coincidence, we've just cracked a couple of those...

World Solar combatants rev their engines batteries

Re: The NT News Facebook Page reports

Correct. We got held up at Waukhope, 110km north of Barrow Creek, along with three of the teams. They're not moving until tomorrow, but we eventually made it to Alice Springs.

Collapsing cranes and cantankerous cars

Re:

Ok, as in Drewcilla Queen of the desert?

Post-pub nosh deathmatch: Kapsalon v quesadillas

Re: Right you are then.

I gather it's perfectly legal to stick chilli sauce on your kapsalon. Putting it on the chips at the bottom might be the way to go. Good luck...

Belgian buccaneers invade Rockall

Re: The WORLD's remotest outcrop???

I believe it actually is the remotest single outcrop. Bouvet Island is the remotest island, but it has a couple of islets offshore. Happy to be corrected.

Re: Logo swiping

Yes we are.

Chocolate weighed in Schwarzeneggers: Official

Re: As long as....

Fair enough. Consider yourself gold medalled for your valiant defence of our beloved mother tongue.

Re: Begging for it

Here's the basic model for El Reg units:

http://reg.cx/1R1q

LOHAN deluged with Reg readers' interjections in REHAB

Re:

Fret ye not - the drawing isn't to scale.

Re: This might be a retarded question....

The ignition system will be inside an insulated main payload box, with some form of heating (hand warmers most likely), so it's not an issue.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/06/paris_main_payload/

Re: what am i missing?

Yes, we're only interested in the ignition.

Re: Perspex

Not a bad idea...

LOHAN to suck mighty thruster as it goes off, in a shed

Re: a title is now optional!

Graphic isn't to scale, so the thing will probably end up longer and thinner.

Re:

Yup, they have their own oxidiser. This is not an issue.

Re: Watch out for low temerature effects on the rubber seal

Duly noted.

Re: A correction...

Fair point. Should read "Exhaust"...

Lincs bloke fined in deceased hedgehog outrage

Re: I want Lester's job

Correcto.

LOHAN eyes hardcore partner's impressive girth

Re: Borrow a hypobaric chamber?

We used QinetiQ's hypobaric chamber for PARIS, but the chaps down there made it clear no inflammables, naked flames, explosives, etc, were allowed in.

Re: DIY hypobaric chamber

As part of my mulling, I was thinking about something along the same lines. We evidently need to test possible motors at low pressure.

Apollo 17 Moon landing: Shock revelations

Re: The capitalists have got to you comrade!

No, the damn Russkies didn't have the same level of cheap paper cup capability. They bought 'em in Wal-Mart and smuggled them out in the diplomatic bag via Cuba.

Re:

Anti-grav vertical landing capability, evidently.

Lunchtime refreshment

I'd strongly advise you against it. The doctor's here and he says it's 50/50 if I'll ever walk again.

JP Morgan has a Playmobil moment

Re: playmobil

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/22/murdoch_hearing/

LOHAN rival to inflate bulging orbs with hydrogen

Re: C10H14N2

Sadly, my doctor has warned me off C8H10N4O2, and I'm now restricted to de-C8H10N4O2-ated.

Re: Hydrogen is the right choice

Unmanned? We take the safety of our Playmonaut very seriously.

London rioters should 'loose all benefits'

Re: Transportation

The Falklands, according to my bruv, who spent six months there, is the ideal penal colony

US Air Force in a seriously stealthless state

Re: What, you don't see them flying?

The F-117 has gone to the great hangar in the sky, I believe.

Dunkin' Donuts waitress offers additional dunkin'

Re: Competing against Starbucks?

I couldn't bring myself to do it either. I must be getting old...

LOHAN team buried under ballockets

Re: crowdsourcing

You know you love it

Can you handle LOHAN's substantial globes?

Re: Launch platforms

Yup, it is a rough ride, and the wind is a real problem. Agreed about the the launch angle, so we need to find a solution which will guarantee the Vulture 2 clears the balloon.