Posts by ant 2

SpaceX chases government cash with Starshield satellites

Space-BACN?

For real? And it isn't 1st of April?

Maybe they can have Space-PRK and Space-BRRL next

NASA picks a tailor for Artemis moonwalking suits

Ever the optimist

It's called contingency planning. In case you actually succeed.

IBM deliberately misclassified mainframe sales to enrich execs, lawsuit claims

Shades of Autonomy

But the other way around. A reverse-Autonomy?

Hubble telescope in another tight spot: Between astrophysicists sparring over a 'dark matter deficient' galaxy

Not only that but "I think it is really poor" - this is serious hand bags at dawn stuff in the world of research!

Time to get the popcorn on :)

A tale of two nations: See China blast off from the Moon as drone shows America's Arecibo telescope falling apart

Radar vs radio

A distinction to make here - Arecibo was a radar telescope, that is is could send out a pulse of radio waves and then listen for the reflection. That's how it mapped asteroids and comets, which don't really emit a lot at those freqencies, and helped locate SOHO when that went AWOL.

FAST, while it is a very capable (and yes, very big) instrument, is a radio telescope and so can only do the passive, listening, bit.

There's a massive case for rebuilding an even better than before version of Arecibo, let's hope administrators and politicos can make it happen.

Astroboffin gets magnets stuck up his schnozz trying and failing to invent anti-face-touching coronavirus gizmo

"...At this point I ran out of magnets."

Dare we imagine the consequences if that hadn't been the case?

Traffic lights worldwide set to change after Swedish engineer saw red over getting a ticket

How many engineers does it take to change a light?

Between 1 and a whole institute's worth.

LISA Pathfinder sniffed out gravitational signals down to micro-Hertz

PicoHertz?

Pico-Hertz?

I'm not sure I've got the patience to measure a signal with a wave period of 30,000 years!

UK.gov: You can't have our drone test results because... er, security

Re: Design the test for the results you want

Much more like the kind of thing Qinetic is used to testing, presumably.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like an AAM... sorry, nail.

Marissa! Mayer! out! as! Yahoo!-Verizon! closes!

Not! Me! Good! Flipping! Riddance! !!

DNA-bothering eggheads brew beer you were literally born to like

Wow, whodda thunk

Beer can be... "enjoyed"!

You've seen the Large Hadron Collider. Now comes the HUGE Hadron Collider

HHC?

Unlikely to be a hadron collider if it's smashing the pants out of electrons and positrons. More like a Huge Lepton Collider.

Earth-sized planet found at Alpha Centauri B

lacks decent space-based planet-spotting kit?

err, Kepler (2,321 planet candidates in three and a half years) is not a decent piece of kit?

Phobos-Grunt 'crippled by US aurora station', 'is a bio-weapon'

what, not the chinese?

I'm surprised nobody's pinned it on them yet, they seem to cop the blame for pretty much every other unexplained spacey/ITey shenanigan.

Hey, they even have a payload on this baby, maybe it's actually an ApocalypsoBomb in disguise?

UK, US ink boffinry pact on laser fusion 'star power'

"the UK company AWE"

lovely marketing coup they've pulled off there - AWE = Atomic Weapons Establishment. And they are soo interested in cuddly 'leccy production, oh yes.

Cornish cow plucked from jaws of death by Navy chopper

lucky cow

but this is a sensible use of our taxes why?

Extragalactic black hole particle fountain awesomeness

my gob is smacked

think that's the first spacey picture that has made my spine tingle. hats off to the boffins.

Hydrogen powered hybrid stratocraft prangs during test flight

why hydrogen powered?

don't the usual low energy density, bulky +| heavy storage problems that beset hydrogen apply at 65,000ft?

They're surely not using it for lift as well are they?

Julian Assange™ applies to trademark himself

please stop

the facetious use of the trademark! It's entirely au point but ****king annoying.

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China plans city 'twice the size of Wales'

serendipity I love thee

never realised 1 brontosaurus was the same as 10,000 linguine, give or take the odd plateful of spag dino-sauce.

Android-powered touchscreen Wi-Fi headphones offered

no no, you misunderstand

this is for those of us that have our eyes out on stalks

Robotic High Noon in Colorado

OMFG - al qaeda\skynet mash-up!

full marks to the photographer for risking his/her personal safety to bring us such a terrifying snapshot

Iowa police mugshot exposes world's worst tattoo

humans!

do we have a stupidity threshold?

slaps (un-tatooed) forehead.